HAS THE WORLD GONE COMPLETELY CRAZY?? What kind of world is it where a rated-R horror movie can be hampered by crippling prudishness and the true terror; the true fear of the boogeyman is foolishly on display at “tea party” rallies and town hall meetings?
Jennifer’s Body screenwriter Brook Busey (aka “Diablo Cody”) has jerry-rigged a tame, irrelevant and indefinable mess. “Edginess” or “coolness” does not come from injecting some hipster teen-speak into a conventional, inert story. The ideas must be edgy as well. It’s embarrassing how non-violent and unsexy Jennifer’s Body actually is. Yes, there is such a thing as gratuitous nudity. But there is also gratuitous non-nudity. If there is a woman in a rated-R horror movie whose m.o. is to seduce innocent boys and eat them, filmmakers should not hesitate to show this seductress in the nude. To see Megan Fox in her most formidable and dangerous state can only help transport the audience to the mindset of the victims. It is no time to be puritanical! It’s a movie! Show us the monster! Instead, after the killer washes off her victim’s blood in a lake swim, filmmakers cut to her FEET as she climbs out of the water!
Numerous frustrating examples of this cheap tactic -- cutting away before the money shot -- litter the film. It’s a shame! It could have been an interesting satire. Performances are all above par. The cast tries their best with this hampered material. One wonders what they would have done with a truly daring, psychosexual script. FOR SHAME!
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