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- 2008
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their g...
Directed By: Fred Wolf
Written By: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
- 2008
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
The House Bunny
55
5.3
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Summary Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their g...
Directed By: Fred Wolf
Written By: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
14% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
14% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum.
A blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
5.3
29% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
50% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
21% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
5.3
29% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
50% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
21% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Thank you Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith for making this movie and also for bringing us "10 thigs I hate about you"! You two are amazing women writers and make great collaboration together! A House Bunny shows that there is good in each and everyone of us, no matter what you do for a living and you should appreciate everybody around, which is in your life or you have a momentary connection with. The best achievement in life is helping somebody with their struggle!
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i'm not going to lie, i have a soft spot for movies with emma stone in them
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For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.
The movie also has some embarrassing laugh-free stretches, but Faris holds everything together with bubbly intelligence, unexpected line readings, and a few deft pratfalls.
So 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.
not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star.
The 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.
Mostly due to the comedic talent irresistible charm of Anna Faris - The House Bunny is as brainless as its protagonist, but moderately amusing in its own way.
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Both a failure and a success, it fails at being a good comedy or movie, but succeeds in getting it's point across, that looks aren't everything and that everyone is beautiful on the inside, but for most of the movie you stuck suffering through unfunny and boring moments, however it does have one or two absolutely hilarious parts, and I like I said it has a sweet message, but it's not worth slogging through the movie, and it's I honestly can't recommend this, and as a huge Happy Madison productions fan I'm really disappointed, so unless you just have to watch everything Happy Madison makes you can safely pass on this one.
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The playmate Shelley Darlington is told to leave the Playboy Mansion because of her age and finds new purpose by becoming a house mother for the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority which is about to be shut down due to a lack of members. Shelly, with her boundless sexy optimism transforms the oddball members into sexy damsels who, like honey and bees, attract the interest of the boys, which makes the sorority interesting for the female students to join in turn. At the end the misfits revolt but the sorority is saved nevertheless by a deus ex machina.
The overall story is a ship that flounders over the ocean steering away from anything uncomfortable that might contain a deeper message to run aground on the shore of mediocrity.
The fact that Shelly has a due date because of her looks is quickly stepped over and doesn't result in anything more than the remark: oh, but 27 isn't that old! So 28 is? Or 29? Or 30?
That the oddballs are easily turned into sexy ladies shows a missed opportunity for some fireworks. Why are the women so ready to submit to being objects of lust for men? Non of the ladies seem to have problems with that. Are non of them lesbian? Or from some social or religious background that frowns on these things? Or even themselves not ready to stoop that low? A confrontation between Shelly and the grumpy Mona seemed in the make, but Mona's resistance quickly evaporates after some quibbling. It is not to be had.
The Zetas apparently live in social isolation for no friends or family members show up to protest the loss of their individuality and personality. It is not only nonsensical but it also fails to make use of the material that lies there. People are not malleable like that, but for the sake of the movie they are.
Near the end the movie turns it around again and shoves us the 'be yourself' message down the throat. Another contrived concept that belies reality. And thus the movie misses every opportunity to stand out one way or the other.
The problem is that the movie is neither fish nor fowl. It is not light enough to be just a silly funny movie with an upbeat message and not heavy enough to make for a social drama of sorts that challenges our thinking. Instead it kind of does everything in a haphazard way without doing much with anything specifically.
The low down: a cute idea but the execution fails because the movie is too afraid to provoke or raise questions. It is a safe movie with a vapid message and thus easily forgettable. A missed opportunity either way.
Anna Farris deserves most of the credit as she not only saves the sorority but also the movie.
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It just basically consists of Anna Faris walking around wide-eyed and talking slowly like there's a question mark at the end of every damn sentence.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Relativity Media,
Happy Madison Productions,
Alta Loma Entertainment
Release Date Aug 22, 2008
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Bodaciously Going Where No Bunny Has Gone Before... College.
Awards
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
