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The House Bunny (2008)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 72

Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.

39

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 17

Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 202,564

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Movie Info

When Playboy playmate Shelley (Anna Faris) is unceremoniously evicted from Hugh Hefner's lavish mansion in order to make room for some younger beauties, her quest for employment finds her serving as den mother to an unpopular L.A. sorority in this Happy Madison production directed by Fred Wolf. Colin Hanks, Rumer Willis, Katharine McPhee, Monet Mazur, and Beverly D'Angelo co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

PG-13,

Comedy

Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith

Dec 19, 2008

$48.2M

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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 Source: Chicago Reader
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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 Source: Time Out
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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 Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment (1)
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[Faris] gives an A performance in the kind of farce from which she's more than ready to graduate.

August 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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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 Source: Time Out New York
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The House Bunny gets the difference between being openhearted and empty-headed.

August 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

Why the film works: Anna. Faris.

January 6, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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 Source: Movie Metropolis
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 Source: Apollo Guide
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 Source: Apollo Guide | Comment (1)
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 Source: 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 Source: Shadows on the Wall
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 Source: ViewLondon
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 Source: This is London
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 Source: Independent

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

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Sun Online
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 Source: Daily Mirror [UK]
Daily Mirror [UK]

Audience Reviews for The House Bunny

You know i was completely surprised at the giggles I had watching this movie. While not great it was fun in a strange strange way.
May 19, 2009
jmanard52

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Anna Faris leads a pack of female outcasts in a revolution against the usual college and social hierarchy types who don't like nonconformity from their wimmen critters. Her surprise rebuttal? Total capitulation, which means all the "ugly" women get perms. So , if there's no real surprises here, we're left with a charisma package and, as such, its not bad.
August 18, 2008
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    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.
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    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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