The House Bunny [Theatrical Release] |  | Manufacturer: Sony
Category: Theatrical Release
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Rating:  48 reviews
Language: English (Unknown)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
ASIN: B0018CNNVC
Theatrical Release Date: November 7, 2008
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"I'm an expert in parties and boys. I'm a Bunny! Men write to me from prison--sometimes in their own blood!" So declares ex-Playboy Bunny Shelley, tossed out of the Mansion by a rival for her advanced age (27--"59 in bunny years," she's told). As played by the utterly fearless and appealing Anna Faris, Shelley becomes an unlikely post-feminist heroine, who finds a great use for her not-too-considerable expertise: being sexy. With nowhere else to live, Shelley finds herself as the house mother for a dying sorority, the Zetas, who are the audience for the rallying cry above. And the slightly misfit sisters, though wary, end up giving Shelley a sisterhood she could never have built back at the Grotto. To help build up the sorority, Shelley gives the young women her own peculiar tutorials in charm school--helping them raise their campus profile and recruit new pledges in the process. "When I'm done, every girl on campus will want to pledge Zeta!" Ignore her at your peril, girls. If the formula is a bit predictable, the pace is lively and the cast, headed by the wide-eyed Faris, is aces. American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee is a natural on camera, as is Rumer Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. The supporting cast includes the capable Colin Hanks and Beverly D'Angelo, and a bit too much screen time for the real-life Hugh Hefner, who maybe should have stayed on the set of The Girls Next Door. Still, Faris channels the cheerful, girly determination of Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods--no surprise since The House Bunny was cowritten by Kirsten Smith, who wrote Legally Blonde. Fans of silly romances, hop to it.--A.T. Hurley
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 I'm glad I borrowed it and didnt pay to rent it! July 3, 2009
M. Mcilvoy (Granite City, IL)
This was without a doubt one of the worst movies I have watched in a long time. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece but I was hoping it would be kind of cute. The main actress is attractive but it takes far more than that to make a move watchable (maybe guys would view it differently but my husband and son thought it was stupid as well). The whole plot about why she got kicked out of the mansion in the first place was stupid. She admits in the movie that people only started loving her when she grew up into a beautiful girl, as a child no one wanted her. Her charges at the sorority were very cliche, not funny and not likable. None of them had any talent with boys however one still managed to be pregnant. The worst part of the movie had to be her habit of repeating names in a "exorcist" type voice to remember them. I have no idea what the point behind that was and why it was considered funny.
My advice - skip it and watch something (just about anything) else.
 A FUNNY BUNNY June 27, 2009
Pamela Fuschetto (Hackensack, NJ)
GOOD FUN! Formulatic college romp but Anna Faris sets the bar and separates the men from the boys. Very funny as long as you see it for what it is. Strictly funny.
 The usual. June 14, 2009
Deimos (Alberta)
Anna Faris looks great, but this movie is just a run of the mill crapfest and very predictable. To bad she got connected to such a BAD FILM.
 Anna Faris finds herself transforms in House Bunny June 2, 2009
Tokay (Treasure Island, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Anna Faris discovers a facet of method acting? Yes. Not since Christian Bale muscled up in order to one up Leo DiCaprio for the title role in American Psycho has someone altered their body so very dramatically for a role. The previous soft Anna has been replaced by the T-1000 Anna, hotter than ever, and funnier to boot.
As far as goofy comedies go, the writing was good. The plot was cute. The situations were were well-thought out and hilarious.
Shelley (Faris) I plays a wanna-be Playboy bunny who is cast from the Playboy Mansion after her 28th birthday. To put a roof over her head she takes a group of social outcast sorority sisters in need of a house mother under her wing and shows them the ropes of presenting themselves and talking to men. In turn the sisters teach her to an intellectual man (played by Colin Hanks).
The social blunders are numerous and the movie borrows heavily from Sorority Boys, in a good way.
Anna Faris was goofy in the Scary Movie series, good in Waiting, but has truly come into her own here. This is a must see.
Horribly Horribly written and acted May 12, 2009
LK
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This had the potential of being a harmless fluffy movie.
Instead... it was so stupid, so badly acted and written with idiotic plot moments that it stunk up the room.
Seriously. This made High School Musical III look like a brilliant movie in comparison.
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