The House Bunny (2008)

There's a sublimely goofy tone to this profoundly inept film that keeps us smiling from start to finish, and it has everything to do with the winning charm of Anna Faris. Plus some hysterically funny dialog.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

With strong comic performances and some good laughs, The House Bunny is fluffy, forgettable fun, but it's no Legally Blonde.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

It is all so cheesy, The Sneak almost felt like not wanting to be a film critic anymore.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

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.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

Without Anna Faris - undoubtedly the best thing in Scary Movies - this would be just another superficial wheeze about the perils of superficiality.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

For all Faris's buoyancy, this is nowhere near as good as Legally Blonde, or all the other vaguely grrl-power teen movies it mimics.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

Less than awesome.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

But there is a lunatic sense of adventure about Fred Wolf’s saucy comedy, and it smothers all sorts of unforgiveable sins.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

This tale of a 'Playboy' bunny would be flopsy mopsy without Anna Faris.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

This aims for ‘Legally Blonde’/‘Mean Girls’ status, but ends up being a throwaway, if entertaining, plea for casting directors to start taking Faris more seriously.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

God bless Anna Faris, who’s so good that the second star at the bottom of this review is entirely down to her. Otherwise, this Bunny would be headed for the vet.

Full Review | Comment

10/10/08

Hefner resembles a benign zombie these days and no doubt was pleasured by the free publicity for Playboy.

Full Review | Comment

10/09/08

Faris's Marilyn Monroe-inspired breathy delivery feels forced and gets old fast. Only the scene-stealing Emma Stone shows any promise.

Full Review | Comment

09/27/08

It takes sexism to a new low, and it manages to attack women in the last place on earth where they continue to outperform men -- in universities.

Full Review | Comment

09/26/08

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.

Full Review | Comment

09/26/08