2008’s House Bunny,
directed by Fred Wolf.
Starring Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis,
Dana Goodman, Katharine McPhee, Kimberly Makkouk, Sarah Wright, Rachel Specter,
Colin Hanks, Beverly D’Angelo, Christopher McDonald, and Hugh Hefner.
What is it about?
Playboy mansion bunny (Anna Faris) lives a life of luxury
and magazine glory until one day she is evicted from the mansion. With no
marketable skills or purpose, the 27 year old needs to find a place to live. Despite
not being a student or alumni, she joins a struggling sorority house at a university
as a house mom, in exchange for teaching their house mates how to be sexy so
they can raise money to save their sorority. With rival house members (Sarah
Wright and Rachel Specter) wanting to shut their sorority down, will Faris and
her assorted bag of lovable losers be able to save the day?
Why is it worth seeing?
A shocking amount of talent is assembled here for a juvenile
exploration into how middle school students think college (and pornography)
works. Anna Faris continues to prove that she’s the smartest person with the
dumbest career choices working in Hollywood, as the Playboy bunny with a heart
of gold and brain of vapidity. She does her best to carry a DOA vehicle that
plays like a poor man’s dumpster fire variation on a National Lampoon-like
archetype.
Filled to the mediocre brim with cleavage and trite teeny
bop drama, House Bunny’s biggest leap
of faith may be the idea that Hugh Hefner in his last decade was lucid enough
to remember the names of his harem of centrefold roommates a third his age. Not
that the romance between Faris and Colin Hanks (playing a manager of a senior’s
home fresh out of high school), the obvious zero to hero sorority makeover
montage, and the Scent of Women
impassioned speech to a room full of officials climax doesn’t make you roll
your eyes.
Despite the fact it has a few chortles, it’s fascinating to
watch stars and future Oscar winners (Stone) slum here, and it just may have
killed some other careers (yet another Bruce Willis/Demi Moore child!). It
makes sense- as the bumper sticker on Faris’ car reads, “Mean People are Mean”.
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