So all ‘The Fox’ has to do is show up and play dumb and sexy as high school man-eater Jennifer, who becomes possessed by a flesh-eating demon after a night out at the local fleapit. She’s soon leaving a trail of male victims looking like “lasagne with teeth”.
The only person onto her is best mate Needy (Seyfried), a timid blonde, who we know is a geek because she wears glasses. Overshadowed Needy adores Jennifer but even she won’t stand for an evil BFF…
Though it’s more camp and try-hard than her razor-sharp debut and seems unsure of its barbed message, Cody’s scattergun piss-take of fame-whores, classroom clichés and school yard fantasies is still a superior slice of snarky, entertaining escapism. And hey, it features Fox skinny-dipping, snogging girls and wearing a cheerleading outfit. Ticks enough boxes, right?
While Karyn Kusama’s (Girlfight, Aeon Flux) direction never shifts above workmanlike, her cast certainly have fun with their roles.
The OC’s Adam Brody is a hoot playing an emo band singer in guyliner, JK Simmons rocks an inexplicable prosthetic arm as the dippy school principal and Seyfried is the sweetest foil to Fox’s bad-gal, allowing the raven-haired minx to shine but ultimately walking away with the movie.
It’s all, y’know, pretty salty.
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