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Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy.
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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. Dec 17, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
J. R. Jones
Less than awesome. Oct 10, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Less than awesome.
Peter Bradshaw
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. Oct 10, 2008 | Rating: 3/6
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.
Anna Smith
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. Sep 26, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Ruth Hessey
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. Sep 26, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Sandra Hall
It's computer-written stuff, stiffly directed by first-timer Fred Wolf, but it's light and fun and sports a decent quota of passable gags. Sep 26, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
It's computer-written stuff, stiffly directed by first-timer Fred Wolf, but it's light and fun and sports a decent quota of passable gags.
Jim Schembri
This is completely and utterly Faris' film. Oct 21, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This is completely and utterly Faris' film.
Simon Miraudo
An utterly predictable and formulaic comedy given a huge kick in the keester courtesy of its effervescent star. May 15, 2012 | Full Review…
An utterly predictable and formulaic comedy given a huge kick in the keester courtesy of its effervescent star.
Brent Simon
...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance... Feb 10, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris' energetically go-for-broke performance...
David Nusair
Why the film works: Anna. Faris. Jan 6, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Why the film works: Anna. Faris.
Michael Dequina
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. Dec 14, 2008 | Rating: 38/100
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.
Brian Webster
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." Nov 9, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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."
Karina Montgomery
It doesn't really matter that Anna Faris is such a great and hilarious actress when she has to deliver unfunny lines in an unfunny comedy that usually goes for the most pedestrian jokes that you can think of and is entirely formulaic and predictable from beginning to end.
Super Reviewer
Surprisingly sweet and funny. An exiled Playboy bunny finds refuge as a sorority housemother and teaches a ragtag group of girls how to be popular...with mixed results. I wasn't charmed by Anna Faris's dumb blonde routine at first, but she eventually infuses Shelley with strength and depth. Emma Stone is hilariously unhip as the president of the struggling sorority, and Colin Hanks plays an adorable straight man to Shelley's daffy antics at impressing a man of substance and not just a Playboy.
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.
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.
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