Jennifers

I think Jennifer's Body has a clever premise: high school cheerleader turns demon, personifies evil and not just high school evil. There's a lot of good possibilities there. And in the hands of the woman who gave us Juno (honest to blog!)? Slam dunk, right? No. Gosh, no. Jennifer's Body is a mess. It's not entertaining, it's not funny, it's not cheeky or clever. I can't tell if the director and Megan Fox (gag!) butchered Diablo Cody's script or if the script was just that awful to begin with. I'd like to think it wasn't.

Love Happens packs a wallop of an emotional punch. Aaron Eckhart (the charming and beautiful) plays Burke Ryan, a widower and self help guru who can't follow his own advice. While teaching a seminar in Seattle, he meets Eloise (Jennifer Aniston), a local florist who helps him to realize he's "really messed up." But in a good, I can work with this kind of way. Love Happens is a great looking picture. The cinematography, the Seattle scenery, even the wardrobe is splendid. There is a love story here, but the bulk of the story deals with grieving the loss of loved ones and the complexities of that task - hence the emotional punch. It's not one of the best romances of recent memory, but Love Happens is unique and alluring because of Eckhart and Aniston.