Review of Jennifer's Body (2009) by Matt B — 07 Apr 2015

A reasonably fun film. It was basically sold as a horror-edition of 'Mean Girls' and to be fair, that's pretty close to the truth. It's not as well written, funny or entertaining as 'Mean Girls', but it has a similar tone and flashes of the same winning brand of humour. It's just a shame that those flashes are just that, flashes. When this film actually tries to be funny, it is... and it's sometimes extremely witty too, you know? As if it were from the writer of 'Juno'.

But also, what's remarkable is that when it actually tries to be scary, it does a pretty good job of it, too. One scene in particular was more uncomfortable in a sort of scary way than any horror film I've watched in the last 4 months or so. When did 'Insidious' come out?

Anyhoo, it's a wasted opportunity more than anything, but it gets by as passable fair -mostly thanks to Amanda Seyfried (who I'm in love with) and a surprisingly competetent performance from Megan Fox. Also, J.K. Simmons.

6/10.