Director Karyn Kusama ("Girlfight") follows up her disastrous last movie ("Aeon Flux" - 2005) with a less damaging career misstep in the guise of a winky teen horror movie written by Diablo Cody ("Juno"). Present 15-minute-it-girl Megan Fox shows off the ugly side of her exaggerated beauty as high school hottie Jennifer, who spews snappy slang barbs like so many plucked hairs from her perfectly shaped eyebrows. Slutty Jennifer plays dom to her submissive best friend Needy (Amanda Seyfried), who carries on a sexually active relationship with her loyal boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons). Jennifer's salty taste for sexual adventure meets its match when she goes off with a visiting rock band called "Low Shoulder" after the bar they're performing in burns down. Believing Jennifer to be a virgin, the Satan-worshipping group of musicians take her into the woods of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota and perform a bloody sacrifice that transforms Jen into a ravenous cannibal vampire. Punctuated by gory episodes, but lacking in suspense and surprise, "Jennifer's Body" works more as a teen sex endorsement ad for hormone-raging audiences to copy their on-screen peers. When Jennifer tells her teen boy victim about the tremendous "wettie" he gives her, it's a text book definition of "guilty pleasure." Rated R. 101 mins. (C) (Two Stars)
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