...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...
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The House Bunny (2008)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:47
Rotten:73
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.
Theatrical Release:Aug 22, 2008 Wide
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
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Reviews for The House Bunny
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
Top CriticNot 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
Without Anna Faris - undoubtedly the best thing in Scary Movies - this would be just another superficial wheeze about the perils of superficiality.
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.
10/10/08
Less than awesome.
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.
10/10/08
This tale of a 'Playboy' bunny would be flopsy mopsy without Anna Faris.
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.
10/10/08
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