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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This film was much better than I expected it to be, but to be fair I wasn't expecting too much, particularly when 'Happy Madison' appeared on the screen. However, it was really funny in places and even had thought-provoking sad moments too. It is your typical American concept of 'boys like bimbos' but this has a cute little twist, which I really liked. I just wish they would stop with the whole 'girls aren't sexy with glasses on' rubbish. Anyway, definitely worth a watch for silly, cheesy and sometimes very obvious laughs, just don't concentrate too much on Beverly D'Angelo's face, something strange has happened to it, and it it looks a little like melted plastic...such a shame. I gave it 8 stars because Emma Stone, as always is fantastic. She's believable in any role that she plays. Anna Faris is her usual funny goofy self, a part that she convincingly plays to a tee, and Kendra is in it. Everyone loves a bit of Kendra!

"The House Bunny" (2008) stars Anna Faris as playboy bunny, Shelly, living at Hefner's infamous mansion. When she's unexpectedly ousted after her 27th birthday she gets a gig as a house mother at a USC sorority where Shelly encourages a group of geeky girls by giving them make-overs, etc. Beverly D'Angelo, Colin Hanks and Hugh Hefner have side roles. The plot is similar to 1984's "Revenge of the Nerds" in that a group of nerdy youths get revenge on their popular crowd persecutors. The difference here, of course, is that the nerds are girls at a sorority rather than guys at a fraternity, not to mention the presence of a playboy bunny as their leader. I wanted to see this movie the second I saw the trailer because it made it look like an entertaining movie and it is, to a point. Amiable Anna easily carries the movie with her winsome, naïve personality while Emma Stone is equally effective as the leader of the geeks. Kat Denning, Katharine McPhee and a couple of the other actresses who play the nerdy girls are also good. It's a well-made, likable dramedy with -- thankfully -- no raunch. The problem is the script and the corresponding flow of the story. It never really engaged me and, as such, the movie never rose above mildly amusing. Another problem is that the filmmakers failed to take advantage of the female resources at their disposal, except for Faris. Dennings is underutilized and McPhee is pregnant the entire movie, which was unnecessary because there's no appreciable payoff to that particular subplot.If you want to see a really good dramedy about sorority girls check out 2005's "Man of the House." The film runs 97 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles, including Playboy Mansion and USC. GRADE: C

The House Bunny is a possibly decent R-rated comedy trapped in PG-13 hell. Seriously, a Playboy bunny in a sorority house...PG-13? Not to say that this had to be an all-out raunch-fest stuffed with endless vulgarity and nudity. But this is a movie which desperately needs a little edge to it. Instead it constantly approaches the line of good taste and then scurries back to safety. For this movie to work it had to go over the line now and again. As it is things are played way too safe.Of course even if the movie did take a few more chances it was still never going to be any kind of great cinematic revelation. All you're hoping for is a few laughs and the movie fails to deliver them. The story follows Shelley who has been recently evicted from the Playboy mansion for the high crime of being, at 27, too old. She ends up as house mother to the Zeta sorority girls. The Zetas are, to put it bluntly, losers. Shelley has to whip them into shape lest they lose their charter and their house to the mean girls from Phi Iota Mu. Once that story sets itself up there's no drama, it's obvious where the movie's headed. You wouldn't mind the inevitability if the movie gave you solid laughs. But it doesn't. Anna Faris is game in the role of Shelley but she has so little to work with. The script is lousy, the jokes fall flat, the supporting characters offer very little help. Emma Stone is really the only other performer to come away with any credit at all. She plays Natalie, the most normal of the loser Zeta girls. The rest of them are just absurd, and not in a funny way but rather in a stupid way. The two male love interests, one for Shelley and one for Natalie, are total duds. Hugh Hefner proves to be such a terrible actor that he can't even convincingly portray Hugh Hefner. Faris has enough charm, charisma and comic chops to save the movie from being truly wretched. But the movie, afraid to take risks, never really had a chance to succeed. Loosen up, embrace the Playboy storyline, go for that R-rating. Instead all we get is an endless series of tame, lame dumb blonde jokes. This movie was never going to be great. But it surely could have been better than this.

I heard about this film because of the leading actress, and the title made it obvious that it was something to do with Playboy, but it is not something seedy or full of gross jokes, a typical fish out water style story, and one I looked forward to trying. Basically Shelley Darlingson (Scary Movie's Anna Faris) is a bunny girl working at the Plaboy mansion, and she celebrates her twenty seventh birthday, but is shocked to be told in a note from Hugh 'Hef' Hefner that she will have to leave, being too old (in bunny years). With nowhere to go she packs her things and looks around to start a new life, and following some pretty girls who remind her of herself, and she finds herself in a luxury sorority house. The girls living there being completely stuck up, and Shelley not being a student, she is rejected, but she finds the other sorority house, Zeta Alpha Zeta, which is less luxurious and full of girls that are all socially awkward. They at first reject her too, but bespectacled virgin Natalie (Zombieland's Emma Stone) makes the other girls change their minds, and soon enough they realise their new house mother's pulling power. As time passes Shelley helps the girls gain more self confidence, including with their image change, and they certainly get more attention from boys, and Shelley herself meets retirement home worker Oliver (Colin Hanks, Tom's son), and ironically, she needs flirting tips. There is a point when she is becoming more popular than the sorority house and other girls, and they blame her for this, and at the same time Hef is calling her from the Playboy mansion offering her a photo shoot, he never wanted her to leave, the note was faked by another bunny. Shelley realises she can't see herself going back to her old life, and she cares too much for the girls, who are in danger of losing the sorority house, due to lack of pledges, more are interested in the rival Phi Iota Mus. Dean Simmons (Christopher McDonald) is about to take away the house, but the house bunny comes back and gives a stirring speech about what she has learnt about love and acceptance, and girls start raising their hands to pledge. In the end, with the thirtieth pledge they needed coming from the friend of mean Ashley (Sarah Wright), they keep the house, and Shelley, who does find happiness with Oliver as well, stays with them, keeping in contact with Playboy. Also starring Kat Dennings as Mona, Beverly D'Angelo as Mrs. Hagstrom, Katharine McPhee as Harmony, Kiely Williams as Lilly, Rumer Willis as Joanne, Dana Goodman as Carrie Mae, Kimberly Makkouk as Tanya, Tyson Ritter as Colby and Shaquille 'Shaq' O'Neal. Faris, who rose to fame film by film, plays the dumb blonde to the hilt, but is not too annoying and is a lovable character, and the supporting cast of ugly ducklings turned prettier are alright too, as well as the other stars. It is a story you may think, with a Playboy storyline, it would contain softcore pornography and lots of nudity, or it would be trying to make you laugh with sick and stupid gags, but it is a bit more grown up than that, I will confess the script is a bit simple and predictable at times, but it is a nice and funny story all the same, a fun comedy. Worth watching!