On Demand picks

February 04, 2010

JENNIFER’S BODY

(Comcast Movies: All Movies) Not a disaster but a meh: a teen horror comedy that’s neither funny enough nor terribly scary. The script by Diablo Cody (“Juno’’) swaggers but doesn’t bite, and Megan Fox (pictured) is too generic to make her demonically possessed high school queen bee very interesting. Amanda Seyfried is more fun as her nerd-grrl pal. “Heathers’’ it ain’t. (R; runs through June 24) TY BURR

THE MIGHTY DUCKS

(Encore on Comcast) Formula piece about inner-city kids coming together as a pee-wee hockey team. It’s “The Bad News Bears’’ on ice, the “Rocky’’ of hockey, more about failure-haunted yuppie lawyer-coach Emilio Estevez’s rehabilitation than the kids. It pushes predictable buttons skillfully, but very predictably. (PG; runs through April 8)

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

(HBO on Comcast) A near-perfect adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel that begins with money and ends with love. Director Ang Lee catches Austen’s tangy social satire and never sugarcoats the brutal economics looming over a widow and her three suddenly destitute daughters. But mostly this is Emma Thompson’s show, as scriptwriter and star. She plays the oldest sister, who may be too quick to veil her feelings and cope, while Kate Winslet is a wonderful counterweight as her impulsive sibling. Nothing but felicities here. (PG; runs through Feb. 8)