Jennifer’s Body Trailer - Megan Fox’s Hotness Temporarily Beats Diablo Cody’s Irritating Writing

Hey, look!  There’s this new movie about clever high schoolers fighting demons and trading witticisms and, if it were written by Josh Whedon, everybody would be jumping up and down!  Sadly, though, Jennifer’s Body is the latest effort from Diablo “honest to blog” Cody, so you have to kind of cringe while you watch it, concentrate on Megan Fox’s mostly-naked body when it shows up, and just hope no one says anything to make you groan and roll your eyes. And for the most part they don’t:

Whew! The inclusion of Adam Brody is a welcome sign. (As is seeing the adult part of the cast filled out by the always-top-notch Amy Sedaris and JK Simmons.) And we’re actually intrigued by the idea of flipping the script of a generally misogynistic genre by making all the victims boys. Will we be treated to a helpless Adam Brody screaming out for Amanda Seyfried to save him?

But the centerpiece here has to be Cody and whether or not, like her previous Juno, a decent idea get overwhelmed by overwritten dumbassery. (”Nice hardware, Ace.”)  But this is horror, not twee high school melodrama, which certainly gives a lot more leeway for camp, farce and good, clean fun covered in fake blood and gore. So maybe this can be at the forefront of a new subgenre of, “You Go Girl!” horror movies, with women in control but, of course, still having to show a little tit if they’re gonna have their name above the title.