The House Bunny

The House Bunny (2008)

  • 41% of critics liked it
    (122 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (202,564 ratings)

When Playboy playmate Shelley (Anna Faris) is unceremoniously evicted from Hugh Hefner's lavish mansion in order to make room for some younger beauties, her quest for employment finds her serving as den mother to an unpopular L.A. sorority in this Happy Madison production directed by Fred Wolf.… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 22, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Dec 19, 2008
Sony Pictures/Columbia

Critic Reviews

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    The result isn't very funny, and its sexual politics are as muddled as you'd expect, but Faris is sweet and likable as the sort of wise dumbbell Judy Holliday used to play.

  • Anna Smith, Time Out

    This aims for 'Legally Blonde'/'Mean Girls' status, but ends up being a throwaway, if entertaining, plea for casting directors to start taking Faris more seriously.

  • Ruth Hessey, MovieTime, ABC Radio National

    It takes sexism to a new low, and it manages to attack women in the last place on earth where they continue to outperform men -- in universities.

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    [Faris] gives an A performance in the kind of farce from which she's more than ready to graduate.

  • Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

    Anna Faris plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris's movies fail that total commitment, she can hardly be blamed for taking the work.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    You know i was completely surprised at the giggles I had watching this movie. While not great it was fun in a strange strange way.

  • Universal D


    Anna Faris leads a pack of female outcasts in a revolution against the usual college and social hierarchy types who don't like nonconformity from their wimmen critters. Her surprise rebuttal? Total capitulation, which means all the "ugly" women get perms. So , if… More

  • Dean !


    Good to see Anna Faris in something else other than a Scary Movie for a change. Although there isn't a great difference in the type of role she plays here. Kicked out of the playboy mansion she decides to become a house mother to a sorority house of misfits, hoping to make them… More

  • Sanjay R


    Saw this movie on TV. Laughed once at Emma Stone's awkward character, and that's all. Didn't expect much going in, didn't get much coming out.

  • Directors C


    The acting talent in The House Bunny is amazing for a chick flick but the weak plot is a big distraction and the humour and script is a bit too mild for the premise.

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