Jennifer's Body: The real meaning of a 'sexy teen flick'

Jennifer's Body: The real meaning of a 'sexy teen flick' Alamy When it was released in 2009, the film Jennifer's Body was dismissed by critics as a 'lurid adolescent distraction'. Alamy When it was released in 2009, Jennifer's Body was dismissed by many critics as a 'teen flick' Jennifer's Body was labelled a "spectacular disaster, the kind of thing a cat might bury in a litter box and still keep building the covering because the stench can't be smothered", and a "lurid adolescent distraction". In an interview with the New York Times Magazine soon after the release of Jennifer's Body, Fox said: "I am on display for men to pay to look at me." We can't market this movie to boys and have them go to the theater expecting one thing and then seeing Megan Fox not really take off her clothes but rip a guy's intestines out and eat them – Karyn Kusama The poster and trailer for Jennifer's Body emphasised Fox's sex appeal, and the studio even planned a promotional stunt involving an amateur porn site – an idea that Kusama and Cody rejected. As Lena Wilson told Fonseca, "anybody who thinks Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama didn't know exactly what they were doing when they made Jennifer's Body might want to reconsider their cultural blind spots".