Movie Reviews: The House Bunny

22 August 2008 10:34 AM, PDT

Critics haven't much good to say about the plot of The House Bunny, but they do have much praise to heap on its star, Anna Faris. Nathan Lee begins his review in the New York Times by proclaiming: "All hail Anna Faris, fake bimbo par excellence, master of the birdbrained double take, our reigning queen of intelligent stupidity." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post begins his by observing: "Perhaps only Anna Faris could make a female-empowerment comedy produced by Adam Sandler tolerable." And in the Toronto Star, Linda Barnard starts off: "The House Bunny pulls a rabbit out of a hat with Anna Faris, whose comic charms -- to say nothing of her physical ones -- work some magic on this otherwise weak effort."

you bet (no)

how is this even a selling point for a movie though when you can wait for the screencaps if you need THESE SPECIFICALLY and there's the internet for tits in general

Tits on the big screen!!!!!!!!!!!

The only reason I would go to see it is because Emma Stone is in it and she is really freakin' hot a really good actress.

Wasn't she only in Superbad? I thought she was hot there. I love her deep voice and... big eyes

I saw this with my girlfriend last night. It was actually... kinda good. I was surprised.

There were lots of tits. You even get to see a naked ass omggzz!

Were the tits naked, as in you can see nipple, and not just tits in bras?  If that's the case, how was this not rated R?

But come on, this is just another fucking movie along the line of no-effort crap Hollywood likes to make.  It doesn't deserve any attention at all.  Just because it has Anna Faris does not make it worth watching.  I'm sick of so many movies hinging on a single pointless gimmick. 

And seriously, if you're going to make a movie about a Playboy bunny, make it R-rated.  That kind of movie DEMANDS naked tits.  Not just one naked ass.

chanicakes you should be ashamed for thinking this movie would appeal to one gender and not the other.

the stratification is of taste, not chromosomes.

according to imdb no nips sorry guys

Okay so now it's tits with no nipples, but they're on the big screen so that makes up for them not even being proper nudity?

It is awful if anyone sees this for that reason now.  I mean I thought it was kind of bad before but now it's just terrible to spend that kind of money to NOT EVEN SEE A WHOLE BOOB.

I think its pretty funny how nipple constitutes nudity.

Me too. Girls should feel free to go bareback wherever they want.

what. have you never been to a c-store before and seen the porno rack?

just tiny nipple-colored dots covering the nipples.

this is actually really funny

so is that like opening a christmas present, when you peel off the dots? buy magazine, immediately remove nipple-colored dots.

ours has a black plastic bag over most of them I think but I never really see porno mags in most convenient stores around here

I am sorry but I feel like your entire OP comes off as almost vaguely sexist in a way, most likely not on purpose, but all I see is stereotypical societal tendencies in it. Humor is not gender specific, the gender of the person doing the humor matters little, gender doesn't automatically make someone not want to see something (chick flick is the stupidest term ever),  and not all guys are going to enjoy barely clothed women scenes, not just because of sexual orientation but maybe because not all guys are pigs who go crazy over the vaguest nude pic of a woman ever. If a movie has barely clothed women or actual nudity in it, it better have an actual MOVING purpose that deepens the characters or story in some way and isn't there just to get me to watch it, otherwise it can piss off for all I care.

I don't watch what most people call "chick flicks", because 99% of them are genuinely BAD movies that talk about stuff they are trying to be PHILOSOPHICAL about to sound "deep" and "intellectual", such as work hard no matter how you work something will be accomplished and to also be who you are in the inside and outside, don't let physical or mental barriers pursuade you from your goals, not because some idiot somewhere decides that you can magically make a movie for a gender.

Unfortunately, this looks like one of those things. I just really wish your OP wasn't so plagued with common stereotypes that aren't very true at all. A lot of guys enjoy these types of films because of their movie taste, a lot of women enjoy barely clothed women too, and a lot of women are more sex crazed than most men could ever dream to be, gender matters very little, personal preference however does matter.

In reality all a chick flick is, is a film that talks about stuff that common stereotypes about men says we shouldn't care about, which is about one of the most sexist thing you can really have is when you start saying what a gender should or shouldn't care about since you're applying stereotypes based on gender. I love love scenes in film because of what they tend to add to the characters or movie, not because of omgz naked woman. That type of interaction helps bring out the best and worst in people, both partners, and if done right and performed well, seeing that interaction go from there is interesting in how it deepens the interactions between the characters afterwards.

idk, this film just seems like a terrible movie trying to appeal to typical women stereotypes and seem deeper then it really is.

idk, this film just seems like a terrible movie trying to appeal to typical women stereotypes and seem deeper then it really is.

this movie is the sarah palin of films