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Wherein myself and Corey of Evil on Two Legs butt heads over Diablo Cody’s follow-up to Juno, Jennifer’s Body.

Director: Karyn Kusama
Year: 2009
Country: USA

The first time I saw Juno I enjoyed it. It was quirky, fun and sported a solid cast that was in some way well-versed in the art of acting. Even (relative) newcomer Ellen Page was impressive, handling Diablo Cody’s incredibly modern and far from evergreen dialogue with panache, delivering each [...]

The hullabaloo surrounding Jennifer’s Body is predicated upon two factors:
1. The success of Diablo Cody’s screenwriting debut Juno
and
2. Megan Fox

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The first one is more or less a moot point. I enjoyed Juno the first time I saw it, then all subsequent viewings rendered me incapable of appreciating its zany dialogue, unbelievable characters and bizarre psuedo-pedophiliac [...]

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The interblags have been all atwitter over the forthcoming release of Juno scribe Diablo Cody’s next film, a horror-comedy titled Jennifer’s Body. Aside from simply being another horror comedy, it stars Megan Fox, the Angelina Jolie doppelganger and star of the Transformers films, a fact seemingly more important than anything else related to the film. [...]