The film's only noteworthy features prove to be the scenes inside the Playboy mansion, where a wrinkled Hugh Hefner shows up, doing his weary best to put in a credible performance as himself.
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09/26/08
The House Bunny (2008)
39 %
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Reviews Counted: 119
Fresh: 47
Rotten:72
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Consensus: Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Sep 25, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $48,237,389
Synopsis: Comic actress Anna Faris (LOST IN TRANSLATION, SCARY MOVIE) shines in her starring turn in THE HOUSE BUNNY, a hilarious and heartfelt tale of female empowerment. As the film opens, Shelly... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Katharine McPhee
Director: Fred Wolf
Reviews for The House Bunny
Top CriticIt's computer-written stuff, stiffly directed by first-timer Fred Wolf, but it's light and fun and sports a decent quota of passable gags.
09/26/08
Top CriticThis puerile so-called comedy is a complete waste of the talents of Anna Faris, a cheeky beauty who is obviously channelling Marilyn Monroe – God forbid a remake of Some Like it Hot is in the works.
09/26/08
Top CriticIf you left Legally Blonde and Revenge of the Nerds DVDs in a darkened room for long enough, something like House Bunny would eventually totter out.
09/26/08
Top CriticFairly predictable
09/26/08
Top CriticStrictly for blondes who like pink, this ultra girlie chick flick meets the criteria for its target audience with likeable characters searching for acceptance as they are. If you take the film on its own level, it is a lot of fun, and teenage girls
09/18/08
Top Critic...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...
02/10/09
Why the film works: Anna. Faris.
01/06/09
The result isn't very funny, and its sexual politics are as muddled as you'd expect, but Faris is sweet and likable as the sort of wise dumbbell Judy Holliday used to play.
12/17/08
Not funny, not sexy, not even obnoxious enough to get anyone worked up, The House Bunny truly establishes a new low water mark for 2008 cinema.
12/14/08
The flatness of humor comes from the directing and timing, rather than necessarily the dialogue or actor skill. More than once I thought to myself, "That joke totally could have worked."
11/09/08
There's a sublimely goofy tone to this profoundly inept film that keeps us smiling from start to finish
10/10/08
With strong comic performances and some good laughs, The House Bunny is fluffy, forgettable fun, but it's no Legally Blonde.
10/10/08
This silly comedy has a few decent jokes in its otherwise dim screenplay. However, its parody is as toothless as Hefner probably is by now.
10/10/08
One could be forgiven for thinking that the American college system is merely one big popularity contest. Certainly, no one does anything outrageous like read a book.
10/10/08
It is all so cheesy, The Sneak almost felt like not wanting to be a film critic anymore.
10/10/08
Every banality is trotted out right on cue, from the makeover montage to the awkward first date, to the usual hoary old moral about being true to yourself, making this one bunny due for the casserole pot.
10/10/08
Depressingly for a film written by two women, it's relentlessly sexist in its insistence that, in order to attract men, women must appear brainless and dress like a hooker.
10/10/08
It is not a classic and it’s not going to win any awards but it is great, simple, stupid fun - it does exactly what it says on the tin.
10/10/08
Fish-out-of-water formulaics are lifted by a starlet on the up. The story is pure bubblegum, but surrender to the silliness and you’ll be endeared. A must for anyone who’s been hanging on for Legally Blonde 3.
10/10/08
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