Wednesday, July 13, 2011
We Disagree: Jennifer's Body (1 short paragraph)
Though I'm not sure if it's what Diablo Cody and co. intended, Jennifer's Body comes off as an exceptionally sloppy, low-rate Buffy riff in the horror-comedy genre. Amanda Seyfreid schluffs off the ditsy blond of Mean Girls well enough to venture into nerd/hard-ass territory, but Megan Fox and her toe-thumbs are given overwrought, ungainly dialogue to wade through, and unclear direction on what exactly the character/demon's purpose is. As far as high school horrors go, it rounds the bend from smart to socially awkward autistic.
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Who knows what a demon's purpose is... each demon has their own raison d'etre, but it's up for the film to define that. This film never gives the demon motivation or a clear sense of self. I just couldn't buy any of her/its actions, because I had no understanding of the purpose of those actions (and to me that's not a character trait, that's sloppy storytelling). Speaking of sloppy storytelling... that origin story... not just the cliche of it, but the manner it which it was told, sandwiched in the middle of the film as a pseudo campfire story...bleh.
ReplyDeleteAlso, an actor or actress should look like they're having fun being a demon and really sink into the mayhem of the character, but to me it looked like toethumbs was just acting and annoyed to be doing so.