This was supposed to be a movie for men. So where were the men? Where was the sexy posing? Where was the smut and the fun? The honest truth is Jennifer’s Body is not really a sexy movie in the way that it was advertised. It’s much weirder and much more unsettling than that. There's something deeper going on within story which I'm not going to even try to analyze or express. If someone wants to start a discussion around this in the comments I'll try to contribute some of my thoughts.

In a 2022 essay on its status as a classic queer and bisexual film, Carmen Maria Machado wrote that Jennifer's Body speaks to "what it means to experience parallel sexualities with your best friend as you punch through the last vestiges of childhood." Machado rejects accusations that the film is guilty of queerbaiting, considering it instead an effective depiction of the "central body of water that is bisexuality" which many queer people spend at least some of their life in. [54] Box office [ edit ] a b c d Murnane, Jamie (September 8, 2009). "Diablo Cody didn't do the same-sex kiss in "Jennifer's Body" for publicity". AfterEllen.com. Archived from the original on September 12, 2009 . Retrieved September 26, 2009.Rothkopf, Joshua (September 18, 2009). "Jennifer's Body". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009 . Retrieved September 19, 2009. I hope between some of their materials [the studio’s] and some of the materials that we generated a little bit more, the audience out there can see that it’s a little bit more complicated than a straight comedy, a straight horror film, a straight high school movie, and see it for what it is which is a fresh take on all of those things,” said Kusama. “It’s hard.”

When Jennifer is lighting her tongue with the lighter, her hair is front of her ear in distant shots, then behind her ear in the close-up.The directors cut of the film was removed from Australian supermarkets due to the graphic sex scenes and the violence. It's easy to be distracted by Fox given she was sexualized from the very beginning, but both she and Amanda Seyfried are absolutely excellent in this. Evans, Ian; Lambert, Christine (2009), TIFF 2009: Jennifer's Body premiere photos, archived from the original on June 8, 2011 , retrieved November 27, 2009