Monday, November 21, 2011

Review: 'The House Bunny' is flaky teen flick with unreal characters


The House Bunny   PG 13   
            Fred Wolf's teen flick, the House Bunny, is dumb but funny in parts. Anna Faris of Playboy plays a magazine model kicked out before she can be in the next issue, and she falls from her lofty mansion life of pampered living to end up in a Snow White way with some extremely dorky girls in a college sorority that is struggling to keep from being decimated at the hands off a rival shallow and egotistical popular house. Tries to be Animal House but ends up Van Wilder. Faris' character learns how not to be shallow so that she can give her dorks a makeover and have them be popular. At times, this shallow and dimwitted movie is comic silver, not quite gold, and it glitters at times, but mostly it's all just window dressing. Worth a rental for the "tweens", girls or boys, and maybe some of the basement or attic dwelling guys that dig Faris. (Not my thing). Anyway, other critics didn't add the story is derivative of the "Sydney White" movie, with Amanda Bynes, a fashionable cute girl in a sorority of dorks, fighting the rivals. And then there's Amy Heckerling's "Clueless". Imagine what she could have done with this!    
Review by Adam Browne

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