Despite the numerous reviews of the inadequate film, Jennifer’s Body starring Megan Fox, I highly enjoyed it. The film is one caldron brewing with a pinch of Mean Girls, Teeth, Scream, and the dialogue of Juno and Valley Girl.

The film engages the audience with the best friend relationship of Jennifer (Megan Fox) and Needy (Amanda Seyfried). Typical friendship, one is pretty, the other is nerdy, one talks like a valley girl, the other talks normal, one is more dominate, the other one not so much. This lively duo is like any other friendship, except one has a demon possessing her body. However, even before a demon takes over Jennifer’s body, Jennifer from the start is quite demonic.

The film portrays a real “high school friendship,” when one of the friends is continuously the more dominate of the two, and will always take advantage and use the other friend. Yet, the dominate one is nothing, and somewhat envious, of the other. Many female audiences recognize this when seeing Jennifer’s Body.

The story starts out with Jennifer, the hot cheerleader, and Needy, the earnest nerdy friend, attending a local rock show starring trying-to-make-it-in-the-music-industry indie band “Low Shoulder”. Jennifer of course has a complete “wetty” for the lead singer, Nikolai (Adam Brody), and his boy-liner, and is determined to make him one of her sexual conquests. Unfortunately, this indie band has something else in store for groupie Jennifer.

Like any indie band, the main goal is to become pop. Right? The film satirizes culture today with ostensible “indie” bands that would do anything to make it mainstream, even if it does mean sacrificing a virgin to the devil. In order for Low Shoulder to make it as a band, they have resorted to asking the devil for help as Nikolai says, “Do you know how hard it is to make it as an indie band these days? There are so many of us, and we're all so cute and it's like if you don't get on Letterman or some retarded soundtrack, you're screwed, okay? Satan is our only hope.” Therefore, the band finds an incantation on Google (Oh how much I love satire) to find a virgin to sacrifice for fame. Though it sounds like a cheesy plot, it makes the film comical. What Low Shoulder doesn’t know is Jennifer is not a virgin. Sacrificing a non-virgin can only lead to one thing, an open can of worms, or in this case turning a girl into a demon who views her male classmates as a buffet.

The writing in the film is witty, making fun of not only pop-culture, but also how teenagers interact with one another. The eccentric dialogue in the film at first is exasperating; it surpasses the annoyances of “valley girl talk”. The audience knows no girl ever talks this way, but as the film progresses the language becomes an important piece, it is meant to be satirical of high school. Anyone who survived his or her teenage years (or did not get eaten by the high school cheerleader) has talked or met someone who used the oddest terms. People today who have surpassed their teenage years still use such terms, “He is so hot,” meaning the person is attractive, in Jennifer’s Body, “He is so salty” is the exact term. The audience should have already expected a peculiar script with Diablo Cody as the writer, creator of the unconventional dialogue for Juno. I believe this is the reason the film lacked such a great response. If you did not like the slang in Juno, Jennifer’s Body will probably drive you up a wall.

The film is less of a horror flick, but more of a dark comedy. Surprisingly, despite the trailers, this film lacks in blood dripping gore. There is probably two scenes that satisfy the bloodthirsty audience. The film is more meant to be a parody of high school and its evils. All the characters fit a perfect stereotype, the hot cheerleader, the nerdy nice girl, the jock, the dark but sensitive boy, the sweet boy next door, and the overly caring teacher. The best part is, Jennifer kills all stereotypical males, which is symbolic in a way that she wants to destroy the “labels”. Most of the time in 80’s and 90’s classics, the hot cheerleader is always viewed as the slut, but in this film, she breaks away from that stereotype as well and decides to become this subtle feminist getting revenge on the male class, then uses them to gain power. The symbolism in this film is ongoing.

Irony is overflowing in this film as well. The soundtrack is fun, but all the bands played are indie rock bands. What was truly funny, was the premier of the film had a live performance by Panic at the Disco, the ultimate boy-liner wearing, so called indie band, making it into the limelight.

When leaving the theatre, Jennifer’s Body seemed nothing more than eye candy, but after a few days, I could not help but evoke a few scenes and laughing to myself. Jennifer’s Body is a secret movie mind bomb. At first it doesn’t hit you, then “BAM” it hits you. Jennifer’s Body receives a “B”. I would probably see it again, not in theatres, but this film has become perfect for a girl party movie that even males can enjoy. After all, it does have the sexy Megan Fox. Fox even shows some talent in this film. Her acting skills are still not as strong as her demon character, but great improvement from Transformers. The true talent was Seyfried, with her captivating performance.

 The film was also done in a classy way astonishingly. There is no nudity, and hardly any gore. The movie really lets the audiences’ imagination take part to visualize what is happening. The film carries mostly on the classic suspense. What I wish the film did develop more on was the possible revenge Jennifer would have on the band that turned her into a demon, or some type of reunion with Low Shoulder and demon Jennifer.