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The House Bunny

The House Bunny is the brain child of Anna Faris who also plays Shelley a brainless Playboy bunny tossed to the wolves for the crime of reaching a certain un-Playboy-like age. She’s tragically turfed from the Playboy Mansion by Hef himself before she can fulfill her longstanding dream of making centrefold (but don’t worry, his octogenarian-ship isn’t really that nasty save for subjecting us to his ability at acting). Shelley’s pathetic and aimless wandering somehow leads her to a college campus and a group of sorority sisters with a lot of smarts but no fashion sense. Throw in a necessary call to action because of trouble from a snobby rival sorority and this scenario is ripe to plop into the Hollywood formula which has already been done successfully in movies like Accepted and unsuccessfully in movies like Van Wilder 2. This one falls somewhere in between but leaning a lot towards successful. Although Faris came up with the idea some pretty clever writers (Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith) fleshed out the screenplay while Faris delightfully fleshes out the screen. So even though some of the set ups are eye rolling clichés the movie is saved by the supporting cast that includes Kat Dennings (a newcomer to watch) Rumer Willis and the continually impressive Emma Stone not the mention the on screen charm (and charms) of Faris herself.

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