With: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody
Plot: Sexy high school bitch Jennifer (Fox) is transformed into a man-eating monster after an emo band's satanic sacrifice gone wrong. Her previous best friend, the nerdy Needy (Seyfried) must try and stop her
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I wasn't expecting much from this after fairly scathing reviews, but what is surprising is that it's such a dud as a horror film, misguidedly spending all its energy on trying to be a snarky high-school satire. The fact that Jennifer was a metaphorical man-eater and is now a real one seems to be the film's one joke, the annoying banter and teen-speak from writer Diablo Cody's Juno crossing over to this film with none of the solid relationships or charming sentiment that made it work there. The dialogue is actually horrifically bad ("Chill out dot org!"), the only character managing to negotiate it with style and confidence is emo band baddie Brody, even JK Simmons is lost! The horror parts lack any tension and, a surprisingly acidic turn from Fox aside, the evil is embarassingly undercooked. It's still somewhat entertaining and has some memorable comic moments (Needy and her boyfriend's sex scene is a sweet highlight), but for an obviously smart writer with an outspoken love for the genre, Cody has written something as flaccid as all the needless remakes we now get.
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