Jennifer’s Body (2009/Fox Blu-ray)
Picture: B
Sound: B Extras: C- Film: C-
In her first film since the highly wasteful live-action Aeon Flux (2005), Director Karyn Kusama
delivers the laughably bad and mildly amusing Jennifer’s Body, penned by Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody in her
first screenplay since the grossly overrated Juno (reviewed elsewhere on this site) and you get wacky results
that sometimes have to be seen to be believed.
Add controversial Megan Fox as the title character (a vampire on the
teen kill) and you know you are in for a bizarre 102 minutes.
Fortunately, the makers were smart enough to cast the very
talented and appealing Amanda Seyfried as the title character’s best friend,
narrating the story in flashback. She is
an up and coming star who can carry a film, even when others cannot and though
Fox could have been worse in her role, Seyfried has the most energy of anyone
in the cast. It is everything we have
seen before in bad teen films, especially in the Horror genre, plus digital
effects are especially laughable and bad.
Still, it could have been worse and is a time killer at best. Otherwise, move on.
The 1080p 1.85 X 1 AVC @ 26 MPBS digital High Definition
image mixes HD video and Super 35mm 3-perf shots in a hodgepodge that looks
often better than it should from Director of Photography M. David Mullen. However, many shots still look bad and there
is nothing memorable here visually. The
DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) lossless 5.1 mix is good and professional, but offers
nothing much more outside of sudden loud sounds done to distract in Horror
films in general from a lack of good storyline.
The combination is efficient and competent at best.
Extras include a Digital Copy DVD-ROM for PC and PC
portable devices, Gag Reel, Video Diaries audio commentary tracks for the cut
and uncut versions on the disc, Deleted Scenes, more Megan Fix items and a few Making
Of featurettes. So much for so little
and I don’t mean the price of the disc.
- Nicholas Sheffo
