Synopsis:

A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

The Freak's Rating: D : When Jennifer's Body only stuck around in theaters for three weeks, I should have seen the writing on the wall. But, come on! It is a Megan Fox movie! I have often told people that I could watch that girl do laundry for two hours and be entertained. It turns out I can't.

Megan plays Jennifer, a slutty teenager who freely spouts out just how repulsively promiscuous she is with nearly every line of the film's opening 15 minutes. I suppose the writer felt this was necessary for character development. More on what a bomb the writing was later in the review. Fox has a few impressive moments here, with a scene immediately after her demonic possession making her look absolutely evil on screen. At this point I was stoked, eagerly awaiting where they took it. Turns out, they took it nowhere.

Amanda Seyfreid continues to make me one of her fans, though even she struggles with this mediocre material. She plays the nerdy girl to a T and comes off as likeable as you'd expect in each of her scenes. J.K. Simmons is typecast here as a principal/teacher (the film never clarifies which), but solid per usual. The remainder of the acting is par for the course, with no talent emerging out of anyone except the aforementioned.

With a lesbian kissing scene that made headlines (and YouTube clips) and completely nonsensical moments where logic plays zero factor in decisions characters make and you have a mess of a film on nearly every level. Direction is decent, but hard to truly evaluate since the script is such junk. It might take a second viewing to give an honest evaluation, which I will DEFINITELY not be giving to this film.

The real sadness here is the sporting of the text "from the Academy Award winning writer of Juno" on the film's poster. Diablo Cody, people wondered if you were a one-trick pony and you've certainly set them straight with this one. The script is ridiculous with dialogue spewing from characters' mouths in an obvious attempt to link the aging stripper turned writer to the "way kids talk these days". Many lines come off so forced they are laughable. I for one hope we never hear from Diablo Cody again after this one. It is a bomb in the true sense of the word. So why the D? Why not rate this film an F? There was some serious potential with the stars and storyline. There are flashes of such, just not enough to pull it out of the D range.

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