Jennifers Body Movie Essay
Jennifer’s Body, written by Diablo Cody, has an acceptable balance of dark comedy and horror, but what really makes the movie worth watching is the comically terrible acting of the main characters. Jennifer, a popular high school student is best friends with a shy high school girl, Needy. Wanting to do everything Jennifer does, Needy goes with Jennifer to a club to see Low Shoulder, an indie band, play. Jennifer having a crush on the lead singer, Nikolai, flirts and talks with him all night. Things go south when the club goes up in flames and only some make it out alive. Needy and Jennifer being two of the survivors, hang in the parking lot in shock until Nikolai comes over and invites them to his van. Needy respectfully declines and asks Jennifer
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Television star, Adam Brody, is shown throughout the trailer, only to show up for 5 minutes in the movie, disappointing The O.C fans everywhere. Even Amanda Seyfried, a supposed main character, doesn’t get much screen time. The only time Amanda was actually on screen was when she was talking with Jennifer or trying to stop Jennifer from killing. Not only was the acting quite awful, the whole movie made little sense and ignored easily raised questions such as why Jennifer didn’t kill the band members once she realized she couldn’t die or why once Needy was bitten by Jennifer, she obtained superpowers but didn’t need to feed on human flesh in order to keep them like Jennifer did. Nobody also seemed to question why or how the killings stopped happening after Jennifer was killed, they just locked up Needy instead, knowing she had nothing to do with the past killings. The movie lacks common sense and an intelligible storyline. This unoriginal “horror” flick was a few movies short from being the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Due to poor acting and/or lack of acting made this movie unbearably hard to watch, parts of the movie that were supposed to be serious, were comical due to Megan’s terrible acting. They advertise the movie as horror but refuse to show any type of actual gore, there was very rarely any close-up scenes of Jennifer devouring her victim’s bodies or the police
Television star, Adam Brody, is shown throughout the trailer, only to show up for 5 minutes in the movie, disappointing The O.C fans everywhere. Even Amanda Seyfried, a supposed main character, doesn’t get much screen time. The only time Amanda was actually on screen was when she was talking with Jennifer or trying to stop Jennifer from killing. Not only was the acting quite awful, the whole movie made little sense and ignored easily raised questions such as why Jennifer didn’t kill the band members once she realized she couldn’t die or why once Needy was bitten by Jennifer, she obtained superpowers but didn’t need to feed on human flesh in order to keep them like Jennifer did. Nobody also seemed to question why or how the killings stopped happening after Jennifer was killed, they just locked up Needy instead, knowing she had nothing to do with the past killings. The movie lacks common sense and an intelligible storyline. This unoriginal “horror” flick was a few movies short from being the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Due to poor acting and/or lack of acting made this movie unbearably hard to watch, parts of the movie that were supposed to be serious, were comical due to Megan’s terrible acting. They advertise the movie as horror but refuse to show any type of actual gore, there was very rarely any close-up scenes of Jennifer devouring her victim’s bodies or the police