Kids say the darnedest things, and the results are usually amusing. The problem is when the kids are 23 and 44. Trying to milk every possible drop of publicity she can get as the (arguably) current hottest under-30 actress in Hollywood, Fox has been firing off one dumb quip after another. It’s ironic (but expected) that Michael Bay proves himself to be just the right kind of director for an actress like Fox, i.e., equally infantile and dumb. According to him, “Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him [in The Rock], nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers—and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from Bad Boys.” Seriously, I didn’t know so many Hollywood actors owed their careers to Michael Bay. Next thing you know, he”ll be saying he put Optimus Prime on the map, and the Transformers franchise would never have been as great without his films, yada yada yada.
Okay, enough ragging on that talentless punkass bitch. I recently came across the redband trailer forJennifer’s Body. I doubt this film will put Megan Fox’s acting chops (if she has any) to any kind of test, but I don’t think she can use the same excuse twice. If she has any screen presence at all, she should be able to carry this one for at least some of the way. After all, it seems to be a vehicle for her and her alone (unless her non-A-list co-stars steal the show from her, which currently doesn’t look too hard).
I don’t know what to make of Jennifer’s Body. Director Karyn Kusama hasn’t been quite the same since Girlfight (we all need to forget Aeon Flux, like, right now), and putting her in the same equation with producer Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody (both of whom gave us the very decent Juno) feels like a long shot, and a very long one at that. And the teaser poster looks uncomfortably familiar. But hey, who knows, this turn into the Ginger Snaps of 2009. Enjoy the trailer (if you’re of the required legal age).
