A.R. Van Halleorg

ALERT : IF YOU DON’T LIKE SPOILERS, AVOID THIS POST.

Note: This is my opinion and it’s not that of an expert.

I’m still not really sure what the heck Jennifer’s Body was exactly.

It was a vampire movie?…Zombie movie?…Demon movie?… It was kind of “All of the above”, really.

She was a demon who happened to need to feed on blood or she looked terrible. She could be out in daylight, but she was bound by a possession to a living human in order to stay in the world. Interesting concept.

So let’s face it. The truth is that the majority of people who went to watch this film were only doing it because “OMG Megan Fox is gonna make out with a girl on screen!”…even I did. I’m sorry, but it was just something I couldn’t miss. The woman is the new Angelina Jolie!…seriously. Anyways.

Now while that was undoubtedly the best part of the film. It isn’t because it’s girl-on-girl. In fact, there’s one thing that really kind of infuriates me and ruins the entire experience of watching a film that I have to talk about in this post. It’s when the people in charge of casting fail to do their job and manage to stereotype cast versus actually paying attention to the story and the dynamics of the characters they are trying to find a match for.

So the one thing I do appreciate more than anything, it’s when the Casting Powers That Be step out of their box and play with it a little.

I don’t know whether they did it intentionally and they’re just observant, or if it was by accident and it ended up right, but the casting people of Jennifer’s Body did the right job in my books. Instead of matching Megan Fox with an actor from one of the male roles, they gave her a match to her female counterpart, Needy (played by Amanda Seyfried). Considering the entire story revolves around their friendship despite all the rest that’s going on, it needed to be that way. We had to at least be able to spot some form of chemistry between the two to understand how Jennifer could stay tied to the living world through her link to Needy.

Let’s just say it worked. I mean Needy goes off with her boyfriend, they have their love scene, it flopped. I actually feel bad for him. It’s not his fault Needy and Jennifer had some sort of connection and Jennifer was in the middle of being murdered! But even so, the next scene with Needy and Jennifer (not when Jennifer first comes back covered in blood) was much better in the chemistry scale. I’m your typical ‘Oh, whatever.’ when they make straight girls kiss, but that was a pretty steamy scene. I was sure Jennifer was going to get slapped by Needy. Ahhh fun. Then Needy surprises you with her boldness, before she realizes what she’s doing. I’d like to note she didn’t stop cause it was Jennifer. She stopped cause Jennifer was a demon killing thing that just vomited blood all over her kitchen floor and went all psycho-look on her.

I’m so rambling. I apologize. Anyways, I’ll probably write an actual post on what I thought of the entire movie, but I was trying to have a little say on what I thought of her match first.

If you want, you can tell me what you thought of the film or leave your own thought on the Amanda being a good match to Megan as long as it’s not some homophobic rant that I will just end up deleting (ie: if you don’t like the match, say something constructive like “They didn’t look good together, Needy and boyfriend looked much better together” or something).

Thanks for reading and have a nice day!