The House Bunny (2008)

All Critics (126) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (74) | DVD (3)

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.

December 17, 2008 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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.

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

September 26, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ruth Hessey

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Top Critic

[Faris] gives an A performance in the kind of farce from which she's more than ready to graduate.

August 28, 2008 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Anna Faris plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris's movies fail that total commitment, she can hardly be blamed for taking the work.

August 27, 2008 Full Review

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Top Critic

The House Bunny gets the difference between being openhearted and empty-headed.

August 22, 2008 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...

February 10, 2009 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Why the film works: Anna. Faris.

January 6, 2009 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

But Faris has the comedic chops to make us love her character, like the lines, and tolerate the formula.

December 18, 2008 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

The disc's extras include far too many featurettes (a dozen in total), ten deleted scenes, a music video and a bucket-load of trailers for other movies.

December 14, 2008 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

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.

December 14, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

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."

November 9, 2008 Full Review

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

There's a sublimely goofy tone to this profoundly inept film that keeps us smiling from start to finish

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

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

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

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.

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

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.

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Anthony Quinn

Independent

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

October 10, 2008 Full Review

Sun Online

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.

October 10, 2008 Full Review

David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

• 1. Shelley Darlington: That's it. Oh my gosh. We have to have an Aztec party. We always wanted to have one at the mansion but we could never find a virgin to sacrifice.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Shelley Darlington: I know lots of old men - hairy and not-hairy. But I don't mean to brag.
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• 1. Carrie Mae: Do you guys know where the crapper is? I have to do a *very mysterious* thing in there...
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Natalie: What if Oliver is one of those guys who wants to have, like, a conversation with a girl before he hooks up with her.
  2. Shelley Darlington: He's gay?
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Natalie: Work it. Work it. You're like a supermodel, except more pregnant.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Mrs. Hagstrom: [about the college] This is not a brothel.
  2. Shelley Darlington: Oh, I'm not looking to make soup.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)

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