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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.
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.
[Faris] gives an A performance in the kind of farce from which she's more than ready to graduate.
The House Bunny gets the difference between being openhearted and empty-headed.
Puts a cheerful spin on its many cliches. This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb.
House Bunny's Legally Blonde roots show.
...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...
Why the film works: Anna. Faris.
But Faris has the comedic chops to make us love her character, like the lines, and tolerate the formula.
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.
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.
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."
There's a sublimely goofy tone to this profoundly inept film that keeps us smiling from start to finish
With strong comic performances and some good laughs, The House Bunny is fluffy, forgettable fun, but it's no Legally Blonde.
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.
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.
It is all so cheesy, The Sneak almost felt like not wanting to be a film critic anymore.
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.
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.
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