Before 'The House Bunny' even started, I was excited. I was sitting on a bench outside of the theater, and people emerged from the showing room laughing and talking about how 'funny' and 'great' it was. I also have really high hopes for movies who have trailers that make me laugh. The movie also has some of my new up and coming favorites: Emma Stone (Superbad) and Kat Dennings (Charlie Bartlett). Then of course there was Anna Faris, who never fails to make me laugh, American Idol contestant Katherine McPhee, and even All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter.
The plot of the movie is not hard to follow at all. Shelley (Faris) gets kicked out of the Playboy mansion after her 27th birthday. With a heavy heart and dashed dreams of being the magazine's Miss November centerfold, she packs up and leaves in search of a new home. This is when she comes across a sorority house that looks like a 'small Playboy mansion!' and asks if she can live there. Instead of finding herself part of a sisterhood, she learns out House Mothers, and that's when she meets the Zeta Zeta's, a misfit group of girls whose life as a sorority is being threatened.
Shelley, an expert at parties and boys, is taken into the home and gives the girls a transformation of a lifetime, and also gains the popularity of many people on campus to help get the girls more pledges to stay alive.
There's also the awkward date scenes between Shelley and smartboy Oliver, a manager of a senior citizen's home. I don't really think it's significant enough to really talk about.
Overall the movie was pretty cute. But it's one of those typical and predictable plots, and it bummed me out that 95% of the funny parts were already shown in the commercials.
If anything, I'd wait until it came out on DVD.
-Courtney Kaz.
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3 comments:
I can't believe you were excited to see it, doll. It looked pretty typical to me. Along the same lines as The Hot Chick, or White Girls (minus the black comedy).
Now Tropic Thunder on the other hand, that was a blast. For being a Ben Stiller movie, who I always used to hate, Tropic Thunder was the only comedy I've seen this year as good as Step Brothers, but in a different fashion. The humor wasn't as blatant, or "dumb", I guess some people would say. But those people are the real dumb-ers.
I haven't seen the movie yet, I read some good and bad critics.
There's also the awkward date scenes between Shelley and smartboy Oliver, a manager of a senior citizen's home. I don't really think it's significant enough to really talk about.
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