Jennifer's Body - guys to their liking
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jennifer's Body - guys to their liking |
| Original title | Jennifer's body |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | Theatrical Version: 98 minutes, Extended Version: 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 (Theatrical Version) FSK 16 (Extended Version) JMK no approval |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karyn Kusama |
| script | Diablo Cody |
| production |
Daniel Dubiecki Mason Novick Jason Reitman |
| music |
Stephen Barton Theodore Shapiro |
| camera | M. David Mullen |
| cut | Cheryl Buckman |
| occupation | |
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Jennifer's Body is a 2009 American horror film with comedic elements .
Screenwriter is Diablo Cody , the 2007 for the film Juno the Oscar won for best screenplay. The director is Karyn Kusama . The main roles are played by Megan Fox , Amanda Seyfried , Adam Brody and Johnny Simmons . Megan Fox plays Jennifer Check, a high school - Diva that after being "sacrificed" for a mysterious ritual is for men-eating killer.
action
The insecure bookworm Anita "Needy" Lesnicky and the arrogant but popular Jennifer Check have been best friends since childhood. They wear matching heart-shaped medallions with the recessed initials "BFF" (for English: Best Friends Forever , German: Best Friends Forever) to show their friendship to the outside world, even though they don't actually have much in common.
One night the friends drove to a bar to see the concert of the indie rock band Low Shoulder , where Jennifer soon casts an eye on the band's singer, Nikolai Wolf. During Jennifer and Nikolai's flirtation, he assumes that she is still a virgin . During the band's performance a fire breaks out and all the guests try to escape from the bar. While the fire was still raging and some of the guests were burning, Nikolai asks the slightly drunk Jennifer if she could still get into the band's car. This follows despite Anita advising against her.
Later that night, Jennifer shows up at Anita's house covered in blood, goes to the refrigerator, eats a chicken and then vomits a black, viscous mixture. Then she leaves the house in a hurry. Anita thinks something terrible happened to Jennifer, but the next morning Jennifer arrives at school beautifully and in a good mood. The small town is shaken by the tragic loss of young people who died in the fire that night. A day later, Jennifer kills the captain of the football team.
Just a month after the incident, Jennifer is pale and looking tired. On a date, she kills another schoolmate, Colin, just as brutal and bloody as the football player. Meanwhile, Anita and her boyfriend Chip have sex, and because of her special connection to Jennifer, she realizes that something is wrong, in a hallucination even sees Jennifer sitting in the room covered in blood, storms out of the house and gets in the car to drive to her . While driving, she almost runs over Jennifer, who is wandering around the street, covered in blood from Colin. Anita rushes home trying to get rid of her terrible thoughts. But there she surprises Jennifer, who finally tells Anita what happened: The band members are followers of Satanism and wanted to sacrifice a virgin as a ritual act, which the unsuccessful indie band hoped to become famous. However, since Jennifer was no longer a virgin, the ritual went differently than planned, she does not die when Nikolai stabs her. Instead, a demonic being takes possession of their body. On the way to Anita, she felt extremely hungry and met the exchange student Ahmet, who was also there when the fire in the bar occurred. She ate him up and then realized that she was better off killing and eating people. Anita tells her to go.
Anita searches the library for information about satanism and demonic possession . She learns that Jennifer is strongest when she has ingested human flesh and, on the other hand, becomes very weak if she does not do so for a long time. In addition, the only way to kill her is to stick a knife in her heart. She decides to stop Jennifer, also to protect her friend Chip. Meanwhile, the band that played in the bar on the night of the fire and then pretended to have saved many people's lives is hailed as heroes. The musical success associated with it takes on unexpected, but hoped for dimensions, as was actually planned by the sacrificial rite.
On the way to the school ball, Chip is stopped and seduced by Jennifer. He is not averse and follows her into a disused swimming pool. Anita realizes that something is wrong and leaves the ball. She rushes to Chip. When she arrives, Jennifer has already bitten Chip. Anita and Chip try to bring them down, but to no avail. Jennifer escapes, but Chip dies in Anita's arms while both declare their love for each other. Later Anita attacks the weakened Jennifer and cuts her an "X" in the stomach, which leaves her cold. In the fight, Anita tears Jennifer's BFF chain from her neck, triggering a look back at their childhood together. Anita stabs Jennifer right in the heart. While she is dying, Jennifer's mother comes into the room.
After this bloody incident, Anita is sent to a psychiatric institution, from which she can later easily escape because she was bitten by Jennifer during the fight and developed demonic powers as a result. Driven by revenge, she hitchhiked after the band that Jennifer had sacrificed and thereby started the chain of violence to kill all band members.
background
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009; it was released on September 18, 2009 in the USA and on November 5, 2009 in Germany. The film was not shown in Austria because it was not approved for young people. The film had an estimated budget of $ 16 million .
criticism
"Solid horror film in the teenage milieu, which does not score with the story, but with a seductive-diabolical title heroine."
“Would Diablo Cody's script have been better off in the hands of a more confident director like Jason Reitman was with ' Juno '? The few working jokes scattered across the 102-minute run of 'Jennifer's Body' don't really give reason for hope. What remains is the strange feeling of having watched Cody make rookie mistakes in her second film, which after her masterful debut seemed to have been excluded. Everything back to zero: We are eagerly waiting for Cody number three. "
“Yes, 'Jennifer's Body' actually features some sexy scenes with Megan Fox - including a lesbian French kiss orgy with Amanda Seyfried. But apart from these superficial stimuli, the winking horror piece also presents itself as a convincingly playful genre cinema. "
"Unbalanced mix of comedy and horror film, which creates strong female characters and reverses the previously valid gender roles of the genre, but neglects the tension in favor of drastic comedy."
synchronization
| role | actor | German Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer check | Megan Fox | Luise Helm |
| Anita "Needy" Lesnicki | Amanda Seyfried | Magdalena Turba |
| Chip Dove | Johnny Simmons | Nicolás Artajo |
| Chips mother | Cynthia Stevenson | Silvia Missbach |
| Colin Gray | Kyle Gallner | Tim Sander |
| Dirk | Juan Riedinger | Tobias Nath |
| driver | Lance Henriksen | Joachim Pukass |
| Jonas Konelle | Josh Emerson | David Turba |
| Mr. Wroblewski | JK Simmons | Joachim Kerzel |
| Nikolai Wolf | Adam Brody | Benedikt Gutjan |
| Roman Duda | Chris Pratt | Sascha Rotermund |
| Toni Lesnicki, Needy's mother | Amy Sedaris | Peggy Sander |
Soundtrack
- Florence + the Machine - Kiss with a Fist
- Panic! at the Disco - New Perspective
- Hayley Williams - Teenagers
- Little Boots - New in Town
- Dashboard Confessional - Finishing School
- Low Shoulder (Ryan Levine) - Through the Trees
- Cute Is What We Aim For - Time
- Screeching Weasel - I Can See Clearly Now
- Cobra Starship - Chew Me Up & Spit Me Out
- All Time Low - Toxic Valentine
- Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
- White Lies - Death
- The Sword - Celestial Crown
- Silversun Pickups - Little Lover's So Polite
- Lissy Trullie - Ready for the Floor
Web links
- Jennifer's Body - boys to their liking in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review on critic.de
- Comparison of the cut versions theatrical version (no youth release) - Unrated (FSK 16) of Jennifer's Body at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for Jennifer's Body - boys to their liking . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 907 K).
- ↑ Approval certificate for Jennifer's Body - boys to their liking . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 907 V).
- ↑ IMDb: Full cast and crew for Jennifer's Body (2009)
- ↑ IMDb: Budget and box office results Jennifer's Body (2009)
- ↑ Cinema.de: Jennifer's Body - guys to their taste
- ↑ Spiegel Online: Horror Comedy 'Jennifer's Body' - What Men Eaters Want (November 3, 2009)
- ^ Filmstarts.de: Jennifer's Body
- ↑ Jennifer's Body - boys to their liking. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jennifer's Body - boys to their liking. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .