A scene from the movie 'Jennifer's Body'

FHM Sexiest Girl Megan Fox zoomed to fame with her lead role in the “Transformers” series, but her new movie, “Jennifer’s Body,” will surely not help forward her career. This is written by former stripper Diablo Cody who scored a hit as screenwriter in the hit indie film “Juno” about teenage pregnancy. The director is also a woman, Karyn Kusama (“Girlfight,” “Aeon Flux”) but all the girl power they muster fails in coming up with a fairly decent movie.

It opens with Needy (Amanda Seyfried of “Mamma Mia”) in jail and, in flashback, she narrates what happened to her and her best friend from childhood, Jennifer (Megan). They’re opposite poles as Jennifer is the hot, sexy type with an attitude while Needy is the geeky wallflower type whose boyfriend, Chip (Johnny Simmons), also looks nerdy. They’re all in high school, but they all look more like their 20 somethings. Jennifer takes Needy to a show one night to watch the gig of a struggling rock band called Low Shoulder. Jennifer quickly tries to seduce the cocky lead singer Nikolai (Adam Brody) who Needy thinks is a turn off.

The club burns down as the band performs and everyone runs out. But it looks like it’s the band who caused the fire as they want to take credit in rescuing members of their audience later to help them get out of the burning building. For this, they get some publicity. Instead of going home with Needy that night, Jennifer chooses to join the band in their van.

Needy wakes up in the middle of the night and sees Jennifer looking like an other worldly creature who throws up so much gooey slime on their kitchen floor. Soon, strange things start happening in their small town, with men being devoured by a strange monster. It turns out that the band killed Jennifer to Satan as a virgin sacrifice for their career to hit big time, but since she’s not really a virgin anymore, she turns into a demon instead who has to eat men to maintain her good looks.

Needy doesn’t know how to help her best friend who eventually becomes her foe when Jennifer picks Chip to be her next victim. Jennifer senses this and comes to Chip’s rescue so the film’s climax becomes a showdown between the two friends. The movie’s biggest problem is its makers don’t know whether they’ll make it a horror film or a comedy-satire on teen angst. In the opening sequence, Needy declares: “Hell is a teenage girl.” The trouble is both Amanda and Jennifer no longer look like they’re teeners, unlike Ellen Page in “Juno” who’s credible as a high school student.

Cody won the Oscar for writing the screenplay of “Juno” but looks like that’s more of a fluke as her script in “Jennifer’s Body” is a hopeless mish-mash that tries to be campy but smacks more of exploitation than anything else. She wants to horrify the audience but comes up with something that is just plain horrible. Not even a single scene is really scary. Even the dialogue she has written for many of the characters sound like she’s so desperately trying to be hip and witty but utterly fails to be so.

The movie could have also been Megan’s chance to show she can act well since she was mainly a decoration in the “Transformers” flicks, but alas, she delivers a completely unconvincing, one-dimensional performance. And it’s too bad she was made to co-star with Amanda, who can certainly act circles around her. Even those who’d go see this mainly for Megan’s body will be disappointed as she remains fully covered all throughout. The end credits try to show what happens to the band members who tried to kill Jennifer but it all falls flat, like they’re expecting there would be a sequel. But the movie is a big flop in the States so there is certainly no part 2 in sight for this boring movie.