The House Bunny

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The House Bunny

PG-13

2008

1h 37m

Comedy

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Sexpot Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) lives comfortably at the Playboy Mansion, until a jealous rival gets her tossed out on her tail. With nowhere else to go, she winds up at Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority. The seven socially inept Zetas will lose their house unless they can attract more pledges; to do that, they need to learn the ways of makeup and men from an expert.

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Critics Consensus

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

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

12/17/2008

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.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

10/10/2008

2/5

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.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Metro Newspaper (UK)

10/10/2008

3/5

The ending is predictably feel-good - if it takes way too long coming - but the female-penned script keeps you perky with some surprisingly surreal flashes... such as: 'The eyes are like the nipples of the face.'

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

May 3

2/4

Personally, I don’t think Hugh Hefner ever topped his cameo in the Roman Empire segment of Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I, but he does enjoy more screen time in The House Bunny.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

11/28/2020

2/10

It's difficult to determine just how much of the film is specifically gratuitous partial nudity and how much is a purposeful lampoon.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/11/2020

2.5/4.0

Undeniably flawed but consistently funny.

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Tina P.

@Justtheirmom May 30

Low brow humor but it still made me life. One of the movies I can watch repeatedly.

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Cole K

@colekirby May 30

how the hell is this rated so low?

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Maizie E

@BlastOButter May 30

Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, and Colin Hanks star in this film where a woman in her late 20s has to leave a world of pink bubble-wrapped luxury and find a real job. Through a series of misunderstandings, she becomes the housemother of the worst performing sorority house on a college campus. Zeta House, somewhere between Lambda House from Revenge of the Nerds and the Island of Misfit Toys, is full of girls who do not fit in with stereotypes of femininity or the outrageous wealth of their classmates in the other sororities. She teaches the girls that how to be beautiful and feminine so that they can keep their sorority house open with more pledges, and they teach her the value of being herself despite her self-doubt after losing her lifestyle. Is it perfect? No. Is it a Happy Madison film with a good cast and full of genuine heart? Yes.

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Nick T

@thunderman04 May 9

not as bad as people put it to be

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Gianluca C

@Gianluca90 Mar 7

Anyone giving a serious rating to this movie is a criminal, it is clearly a well done trashy comedy, if you love Anna Faris you'll love this movie

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Vikram S.

@vik896 Jan 11

Fave movie of all time

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Synopsis

Sexpot Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) lives comfortably at the Playboy Mansion, until a jealous rival gets her tossed out on her tail. With nowhere else to go, she winds up at Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority. The seven socially inept Zetas will lose their house unless they can attract more pledges; to do that, they need to learn the ways of makeup and men from an expert.

Director: Fred Wolf
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Allen Covert, Heather Parry
Screenwriter: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Happy Madison Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Partial Nudity|Brief Strong Language|Sex-Related Humor)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 22, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 12, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $48.2M
Runtime: 1h 37m