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The House Bunny

Year: 2008

Director: Fred Wolf

Writers: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith

Starring: Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Colin Hanks

I actually don't know how to review this without talking about plot twists, so this review contains spoilers, 

When Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a new home and a new purpose: she becomes a house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls. The sorority is about to lose their house if they don't get enough pledges, and Shelley decides to help them.

When I first stumbled onto this movie, I don't know what I thought specifically. I just looked at the poster and thought, well, Anna Faris is great, I maybe should watch it.

Of course this movie had a bunch of clichés and stereotypes in it. Shelley was a stereotype of  a dumb blonde, who has a heart of gold anyway, and the girls in that sorority were such stereotypes of awkward nerds. Stereotypes are always boring. Everyone gets sick of stereotypes, because usually they make there characters one-dimensional. But the characters in this movie weren't actually that one-dimensional, but more about that later. 

This movie also featured that stupid trope of how the awkward girls got popular when they all of a sudden became hot, with help of Shelley. At that point of the movie, I was feeling pissed. But later on, and this is the part were I will probably spoil the movie, the girls luckily realised they don't have to be pretty or popular, they can be themselves. Though they did get some influences from Shelley, and they kept it. I mean they were starting to become mean and judgemental, but Lilly, who hadn't said pretty much anything through the whole movie, luckily talked some sense into them.

And all in all I think The House Bunny had a nice message for girls, I mean eventually it was that you should be yourself, though if you change, it also is okay. But you shouldn't try to change for a guy. That's what I got from the movie, of course someone else may disagree. And of course there's always a chance that The House Bunny is just a comedy and doesn't have a deeper message, but I don't think so. 

The House Bunny was actually quite funny, funnier than I thought. But they made that one date rape joke that kind of ruined some of it, I mean that was obnoxious.

The House Bunny was an alright movie, and apart from the message I interpreted, I don't think it's anything special. It might be worth watching, but there sure as hell are a lot better movies out there.

☆☆☆☆☆

5 / 10