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House Bunny, The
Columbia Pictures (Sony)
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sex-related humor, partial nudity and brief strong language
Starring
Anna Faris,
Colin Hanks,
Emma Stone,
Kat Dennings,
Dana Goodman,
Katharine McPhee,
Rumer Willis, Christopher McDonald,
and
Beverly D'Angelo
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 goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves. (Sony Pictures)
GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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WRITTEN BY: |
Karen McCullah Lutz
Kirsten Smith
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DIRECTED BY: |
Fred Wolf
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RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: August 22, 2008
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RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
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80
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordona
Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum.
75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Silly but endearing comedy.
70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The 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.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Manages to stand on its own two skyscraper heels thanks to the comic force of nature that is Anna Faris.
70
Variety
John Anderson
A blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom.
70
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
This 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.
70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The 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.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie flaunts its comedy roots like a messy bleach job.
67
Christian Science Monitor
Robert Koehler
For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.
63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is a commercial for Hugh Hefner that makes his magazine seem like "Seventeen."
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Bunny is fashioned as a bawdy comedy with heart, but its reliance on formula undercuts the amusing moments.
60
Slate
Dana Stevens
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.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's funny. Dumb, yes, but funny.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
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.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Screenwriters 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.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Despite 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.
50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Faris has mostly logged time in dire vehicles like The House Bunny, which are dumb-dumb to her smart-dumb.
40
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star.
40
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
This 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.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Yes, from "Blonde" to "Bunny," it's abundantly evident that the two scribes have mastered, truly mastered, the serious art of self-plagiarism.
30
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
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.
25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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.
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