Before I saw “Jennifer’s Body,” I read an article in “Jezebel” magazine titled, “6 Reasons to Love ‘Jennifer’s Body.'”I really did not need an incentive to see this, because honestly I have been waiting for this movie for a few months now, mostly to hear the silly new “Cody-isms” that Diablo managed to stir up. Since the spectrum of reviews ranged from empowering and hilarious to sexist and dumb, I was curious. For those of you a little hesitant, let me give you some knowledge as to why you should see this movie.

The basic synopsis is about best friends Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) and Anita “Needy” Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried), whose lives take a dark twist after meeting the struggling indie band, Low Shoulder.

The band comes to Devils Kettle, Minn., to perform a satanic sacrifice of a virgin. After the sacrifice goes awry because that whole “virgin thing” was nonexistent, Jennifer becomes an evil boy-eating succubus. She lures her male classmates with her glued-on pouty face and then eats their intestines from the inside out. Needy then has to protect her boyfriend against her demonic best friend.

The article’s fifth reason to love “Jennifer’s Body” is because the teen sayings are less noticeable and less obnoxious than in “Juno.” Fortunately, there was no “homeskillet” or “your eggo is preggo” in “Jennifer’s Body,” but be prepared for a few “freaktarded” phrases.

Another reason, Adam Brody from “The O.C.” plays the emo lead singer with the diabolical plan. J.K. Simmons is a science teacher with a hook for a hand and a purposefully detestable Minnesotan accent.

For everyone out there who despises Megan Fox, after seeing this you can’t deny how perfect she is as the mean high school girl.

After becoming a succubus, Fox becomes entrancingly evil with her haunting smiles and animalistic crouching stances. Jennifer was just as narcissistic and self-obsessed in life as she becomes in death. Without the flesh of boys, she welts and becomes physically changed.

Fox embraces her mean girl looks and shallow acting skills to become the careless Jennifer, only interested in boys and blood. Who else but Megan Fox could play a demonic man-eater?

And finally, as a former “sidekick” to the popular girl in my high school I understood the bindings of a toxic friendship. “Jennifer’s” gives a quirky, zombified look into the sometimes self-exterminating friendships that happen in high school.

Since “Jennifer’s Body” is not really a comedy yet also not much of a horror film, this has critics all up in arms.

“These are mitigated by a sensibility that mixes playful pop-culture ingenuity with a healthy shot of feminist anger. Ms. Cody and Ms. Kusama take up a theme shared by slasher films and teenage comedies – that queasy, panicky fascination with female sexuality that we all know and sublimate — and turn it inside out.”

“The New York Times” said in a review, “This is not a simple reversal of perspective; the girl’s point of view has frequently been explored in both maniac-on-the-loose thrillers and homeroom-to-prom-night romantic comedies.

“‘Jennifer’s Body’ goes further, taking the complication and confusion of being a young woman as its central problem and operating principle, the soil from which it harvests a tangle of unruly metaphors, mixed emotions, crazy jokes and ambivalent insights.”

Personally, I think Megan Fox is almost making fun of herself, accepting her place in Hollywood right now and embracing it. She has been type-casted over and over again.

While this is a similar role to her usual “sex-pot,” she now gives it a cannibalistic twist that you don’t want to miss.

Correction: In the Sept. 24 edition of the East Tennessean, Jezebel Magazine was incorrectly referenced.
The correct reference is to the Jezebel blog, which can be found at
www.jezebel.com.
The East Tennessean editorial staff regrets this error.

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