09.04.08
The House Bunny
Get ready, readers. All 4 of you. I’m about to lose all credibility.
I liked The House Bunny.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it was a good movie in terms of acting, writing or direction. But I did like it. I really did.
I used to watch Anna Faris with a wrinkled nose, begrudging her of her fame, thinking that anyone can play the dumb girl in Scary Movie and wondering why she kept getting parts. When I saw her in the abysmal Just Friends, I changed my tune. Anna Faris is actually hilarious. In The House Bunny, she plays Shelley, an ugly duckling little girl who grew up in an orphanage and then blossomed into a Playboy Bunny who Hef invited to live at the mansion. Isn’t your heart warm already?
But on her 27th birthday, she is unceremoniously kicked to the curb and forced to find her own way in the big wide world of L.A. She quickly latches on to sorority culture and hops her way into the position of House Mother at the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority. So, with the help of Shelley, the ugly ducklings of Zeta Alpha Zeta learn to be pretty outside and — get this — inside, too! She also teaches them how to get laid.
One caveat, try not to *think* druing this movie. Not about the past or the future or how rush week actually works at a sorority (I pray to god that you don’t even know how rush week works at a sorority) or how Katherine McPhee is too hot to play a misfit and Rumer Willis is too ugly to have spawned from Demi Moore. Just have fun.