Bunny is for the ladies
Mary Konecnik
Issue date: 9/8/08 Section: Entertainment
The House Bunny is a movie targeted for young females, perfect for the crowd that packed the Roxy Theater on Tuesday's College Night.
Shelley, played by Anna Faris, is a stereotypical Playboy bunny who has just been thrown out of the mansion because she is deemed "too old" (27 years old or 59 in Bunny Years). She stumbles across the Zeta house, a college sorority, because their house looks like a "miniature Playboy mansion." The seven remaining members of Zeta are the outcasts of their college and on the verge of losing their house. In order to maintain their standing with the university, Zeta must have at least 30 members pledge their house. This is where Shelley steps in. She joins Zeta as their house mother and tries to turn the Zetas into the most popular house on campus.
Personally, I've never heard of a Playboy centerfold becoming a sorority "house mother." I have also never seen a house party where they "sacrifice" a virgin into a volcano of red Jell-o or have seen a teenage girl run like Forest Gump with a bedazzled back brace. However, most of the things that occur in The House Bunny will make you turn your head and ask your neighbor, "Did that really just happen?"
It seems as though the seven girls do not have any other problems to deal with in life. They never go to class, have a job, or do anything else besides sorority-related events. Apparently that doesn't matter though if you have the right amount of cleavage and wear brightly colored clothes. The House Bunny is similar in that manner to Legally Blonde, just a little bit nerdier.
As unrealistic as the plot is, it is worth the admission price if you are looking for a good laugh. As soon as the credits started rolling, an audience member summed up the movie perfectly with the outburst, "Are you serious?" Everyone left the theaters with a smile on their face and of course, calling each other by name in a deep, exorcist-like voice.
Shelley, played by Anna Faris, is a stereotypical Playboy bunny who has just been thrown out of the mansion because she is deemed "too old" (27 years old or 59 in Bunny Years). She stumbles across the Zeta house, a college sorority, because their house looks like a "miniature Playboy mansion." The seven remaining members of Zeta are the outcasts of their college and on the verge of losing their house. In order to maintain their standing with the university, Zeta must have at least 30 members pledge their house. This is where Shelley steps in. She joins Zeta as their house mother and tries to turn the Zetas into the most popular house on campus.
Personally, I've never heard of a Playboy centerfold becoming a sorority "house mother." I have also never seen a house party where they "sacrifice" a virgin into a volcano of red Jell-o or have seen a teenage girl run like Forest Gump with a bedazzled back brace. However, most of the things that occur in The House Bunny will make you turn your head and ask your neighbor, "Did that really just happen?"
It seems as though the seven girls do not have any other problems to deal with in life. They never go to class, have a job, or do anything else besides sorority-related events. Apparently that doesn't matter though if you have the right amount of cleavage and wear brightly colored clothes. The House Bunny is similar in that manner to Legally Blonde, just a little bit nerdier.
As unrealistic as the plot is, it is worth the admission price if you are looking for a good laugh. As soon as the credits started rolling, an audience member summed up the movie perfectly with the outburst, "Are you serious?" Everyone left the theaters with a smile on their face and of course, calling each other by name in a deep, exorcist-like voice.
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