Review - Jennifer's Body

From the makers of Juno, comes Jennifer's Body starring Amanda Seyfried as Needy and Megan Fox in the role of Jennifer. The movie is a thriller that takes place in a typical, ordinary high school setting. The story centers on Needy and her life-long friendship with Jen. As is immediately obvious Jen has grown into the pretty girl whereas Needy is a bit more of the average-geeky girl. Through the film the main story is one of how childhood friendships can become strained once adolesence has come around. However, in this story, it goes a step further with the pretty girl becoming a demon that can only survive by eating people (mainly boys).

The main underlining theme in the movie is the relationship of how different high school social roles interact with one another. In the film we see attention drawn to the big football player, the Emo guy, and of course Needy the Geek-girl and Jen the Pretty Girl. It is obvious that this movie was made from a girl perspective for the most part. Even the fact that Jen has become a demon is a metaphor for how evil "pretty girls" are thought of. There is even a brief moment where you have 'city people' relating to 'rural people'.

As always we won't get into any spoilers but I will mention a little bit about how Jen becomes a demon girl. It involves another classic theme: the idea that you can sell your soul to the devil in return for fame and/or a certain ability. It does involve a indie rock band and a sacrifice attempt of a certain girl. You may want to do some research on blues musician Robert Johnson.

From a content stand point this not a very scary movie, although that's always open to interpretation. There alot of funny sequences that are well planned and not over done. The makeup team did a real good job. There are scenes where Jen looks freaky.

I did think this was a very good movie and was impressed with all the themes within it. Also special credit goes to it for a Phil Collins reference...

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