- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Release Date: Aug 22, 2008
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Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum.
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75Silly but endearing comedy.
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70Manages to stand on its own two skyscraper heels thanks to the comic force of nature that is Anna Faris.
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70The picture is sharp, in a warm, fuzzy way, about the ways women can sometimes inflict cruelty on other women in the name of feminism. Feminism doesn't have to be the enemy of kindness, but sometimes -- alarmingly often -- it is.
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70The movie is basically on one level and Faris on another -- in that exclusive aerie occupied by Judy Holliday, Carole Lombard, Lucille Ball and a few other blissfully original comedy goddesses.
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70This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb.
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70A blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom.
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67The movie flaunts its comedy roots like a messy bleach job.
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For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.
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63Bunny is fashioned as a bawdy comedy with heart, but its reliance on formula undercuts the amusing moments.
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63The movie is a commercial for Hugh Hefner that makes his magazine seem like "Seventeen."
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60The movie also has some embarrassing laugh-free stretches, but Faris holds everything together with bubbly intelligence, unexpected line readings, and a few deft pratfalls.
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58It's funny. Dumb, yes, but funny.
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50So haphazardly written and directed that it barely qualifies as a movie, The House Bunny is watchable solely for the comic stylings of the blond veteran of the "Scary Movie" series.
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50Despite a winning performance by Anna Faris, the cutest thing in platform shoes since Goldie Hawn, the film falls on its keister so many times that before long the perky pinkness turns bruising black-and-blue.
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50Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith may not have any original ideas, but they write some good lines and have a great actress to deliver them.
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50Faris has mostly logged time in dire vehicles like The House Bunny, which are dumb-dumb to her smart-dumb.
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40not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star.
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40This empty-headed comedy about a Playmate who finds herself a house mother to a group of misfit sorority sisters is little more than a recycled version of "Legally Blonde" with bunny ears.
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38Yes, from "Blonde" to "Bunny," it's abundantly evident that the two scribes have mastered, truly mastered, the serious art of self-plagiarism.
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Unfortunately, Ms. Faris has neither an adroit script -- House Bunny is a stale collection of dumb bunny jokes -- nor Ms. Witherspoon's wily charm. And the filmmakers do Ms. Faris no favors by inviting comparisons to Marilyn Monroe.
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25The resulting hodgepodge of unfunny, sophomoric humor and PG-13 T&A, frosted by a sheen of appallingly nauseous "drama," makes for such a noxious brew that it's amazing viewers stay in their seats for the entire production.
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