House Bunny

3/5

Rotten Tomatoes: 41%

So, I'm going to keep this short and sweet. Shelley Darlington (played by Anna Faris of Scary Movie fame) is an ex-playboy bunny that is kicked out of the mansion for being too old. She takes a job as the house mother of a sorority of misfits, and helps them save their chapter from losing their house. She teaches these socially inept girls how to be more, um, bunny-like, and this of course leads to male attention. Male attention leads to more pledges from other girls, and wild parties. Its a classic "nerd transformation" story that we've seen dozens of time. Shelley learns that there's more to relationships than just lust games, and learns to have a conversation with a bloke played by Colin Hanks, who channels his father very effectively. The climax of the film comes when Shelley and her girls save the house, gaining new pledges at last minute after Shelley delivers an awkward speech on inner beauty.

Not the best Happy Madison flick, but I enjoyed it more than Anna Faris's other films. I am so sick of the movie parody genre, its refreshing to see Faris in a comedy that rests upon its own merits, not requiring its viewers to be familiar with a dozen other films in order to get the joke.

I give this film 3/5, not because of its originality, or its clever writing, or its superb acting, but simply because there are far worse films your wife or girlfriend could drag you to. I mean, the female characters in this film are cougars, sorority girls, and playboy bunnies . . . not exactly titans of feminism, unless you count the dog ugly Zeta Alpha Zeta girls in the beginning.