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The House Bunny
USA 2008
produced by Allen Covert, Jack Giarraputo, Heather Parry, Adam Sandler, Anna Faris, Karen McCullah (executive), Kirsten Smith (executive) for Happy Madison Productions, Relativity Media, Alta Loma Entertainment/Columbia
directed by Fred Wolf
starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Hugh Hefner, Christopher McDonald, Beverly D'Angelo, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, Kiely Williams, Dana Goodman, Kimberly Makkouk, Monet Mazur, Tyson Ritter, Sarah Wright, Rachel Specter, Owen Benjamin, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson, Tyler Spindel, Sara Jean Underwood, Lauren Hill, Hiromi Oshima, Dan Patrick, Sean Salisbury, Matt Leinart, Shaquille O'Neal, Nick Swardson, Jay Hayden, Matt Barr, Chris Titone, Michael Bernardi, Mike Falkow, Marlon Hunter, Josh Richman, Tony Ervolina, Tanner Alexander Redman, Michelle Fields, Nikki Deloach, Linsey Godfrey, Alison Coen, Jackie Benoit, Katheryn Cain, Amanda Columbus, Katheryne Ashley Covert, Danni Katz, Aya Nagasaki, Rachel Saydak, Ashley Schneider, Jennifer Tisdale, Adam Shapiro, Angela Shelton, Julia Lea Wolov, Jonathan Loughran, Kathleen Gati, Missy Stewart
written by Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, music by Waddy Wachtel
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Shelley (Anna Faris) has only ever felt belonging to a family when she
lived in the Playboy mansion - but then she's kicked out (by ways of
scheming from a rival) and suddenly find herself with nowhere to go.
Someone gives her the idea she should be the mother of a sorority house,
but lacking any real education and a fashion sense that clashes with the
standards of traditional sororities, she doesn't stand a chance ... until
she stumbles upon the Zeta house, the house where the misfits, the nerds
and geeks, the outcasts live. Their last sorority mother has just quit and
... well, they're running the risk of losing their house if they can't
attract 30 pledges - but who'd want to pledge for the loser sorority. Of
course, sexy Shelley, especially in her skimpy outfits, is a jock magnet,
and where the jocks go the chicks go - so she takes it upon herself to
turn the nerdy girls into sex bombs - and takes things a little too far
doing so. Shelley also meets OIiver (Colin Hanks), the proberbial nice guy
who works in an old people's home, and who's visibly attracted to her, but
when she tries to seduce him using her old tactics, he's left puzzled at
best, making her realise there's more to life than just beauty. Likewise,
when she tries to pass off as a bookworm, she only makes a fool out of
herself, and thus she learns she has to be herself - and ultimately she
has to teach that to the Zeta girls as well in order to achieve their
pledges ... Emma Stone and Rumer Willis are among the Zeta girls while
Hugh Hefner plays himself, and so do several prominent Playboy bunnies,
including Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. Now
the good thing about this movie is without the doubt Anna Faris who not
only looks the part, she also brings the right comic timing and delivery
to the part. Apart from her, the film has little to offer though, as the
plot is over-populated with old clichés, dated jokes, and a surprising
amount of sexism in the light that this film was written by two women.
What's more, there are no real characters in the movie to care about, just
stale caricatures, while the plot is largely formulaic and predictable and
tries a little too hard to bring its message - "just be
yourself" - across. In all, I seriously can't say I enjoyed this
much.
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