Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, J.K Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, Cynthia Stevenson, Sal Cortez, Ryan Levine, Juan Riedinger, Colin Askey, Chris Pratt, Juno Ruddell, Kyle Gallner, Josh Emerson, Amy Sedaris, Nicole Ludic, Aman Johal, Dan Joffe
Cert: 15
Region: B
Length: 102mins/107mins (extended cut)
Video: AVC, 1080p, 1.85:1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1
Languages: English, English A.D, French, German, Italian, Castellano
Subtitles: English (HOH), French, Dansk, Suomi, German, Italian, Nederlands, Norsk, Castellano, Svenska

I know she's hot, you know she's hot, and more importantly, she knows she's hot. We haven't got a chance.

The lukewarm reception given to this, the second film by stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody after her Oscar-winning debut Juno, must have brought about uncertainty in the minds of certain Hollywood studios as they obviously thought they'd bagged a golden egg (that's what you get for hiring a stripper, folks). While Cody does have a talent for writing witty banter, few would deny that her plots lack a certain originality, and that's very much the case in Jennifer's Body. In a nutshell: Megan Fox gets possessed by a demon and must eat boy-flesh to maintain her supermodel bod. BFF Amanda Seyfried cottons on to this evilness and makes it her mission to stop her. The end.

Here I go again.

Okay, it goes a tiny bit deeper than that but not by much. There's a nice allegory regarding the prettier girl upstaging her mousy friend at school, leading to jealousy and the corruption of youth - granted, in this case brought on by a nasty bout of demonic possession - and there's a a certain irony in an 'evil' teenage girl who's literally evil but hack Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux) simply isn't the right director for the job. Good black comedies/horror satires come along once in a blue moon - for every American Werewolf in London there are a dozen Cirque Du Freaks - so forgive us if we anticipated someone more qualified would be sitting in the director's chair. Admittedly Kusama is good at the heart to heart/girls chatting on a bed stuff but for a film that was marketed for 15 months as being dark, sexy and unrestrained in its blood-letting, Jennifer's Body is oddly pedestrian when it comes time for Fox to unleash her inner monster.

This is one of those films where all the best bits are in the trailer (plus some that didn't make the movie, even in its extended form). So when Jennifer holds a lighter under her tongue to show she has supernatural healing abilities ("That is so X-Men") or her mouth elongates ready to swallow an unsuspecting emo, there's nothing new for us to goggle at. Meanwhile Megan Fox may have posed in sexy cheerleader uniforms for movie posters to bring in the same crowd that ogled her in Transformers (i.e. Boys) but it's her co-star Seyfried who emerges as the victor in all this. Neither a hopeless loser nor a Jennifer-grade hottie, Anita 'Needy' Lesnicki is an inbetweener; something you don't often see in teen movies any more. At first Needy tries to reason with Jennifer since she feels partially responsible for the curse put on her by Adam Brody's satanic rock star, but when Jennifer targets her boyfriend Chip, Needy finally decides to bring the rain.