The House Bunny: Critic Reviews

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

Puts a cheerful spin on its many cliches. This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb.

Less than awesome.

By imposing a predictable message, it obscures the satire.

It doesn't turn any corners, it's lazy, and it's content to keep playing dumb long after it's really funny.

Somebody, somewhere save Anna Faris.

House Bunny's Legally Blonde roots show.

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.

Despite a winning performance by Anna Faris, the film falls on its keister so many times that before long the perky pinkness turns bruising black-and-blue.

In The House Bunny, Anna Faris steps up to her first full-fledged leading role and falls right on her adorable face.

Say this for Faris: Even though The House Bunny may be, she's not -- dumb.

The House Bunny is a blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom.

This is pretty much a one-woman show for Faris, and she doesn't get much help from director Fred Wolf.

This film from the Adam Sandler fun factory starts with a series of obnoxious, dated stereotypes, and never quite flips them into something positive.

The House Bunny may be what some boys like, but there are doubtless moviegoers out there of both sexes who would like to see Faris hop into some decent onscreen material.

The transformed Shelley loses some of her Tammy Faye eyeliner but little of her precious dimness, careful not to violate the broad streak of anti-intellectualism that Hollywood has always reflected and reinforced in the American psyche.

The House Bunny gets the difference between being openhearted and empty-headed.

Let's hope Anna Faris' next project looks past her outer beauty and unleashes her inner weirdo.

[A] hodgepodge of unfunny, sophomoric humor and PG-13 T&A, frosted by a sheen of appallingly nauseous 'drama.'

A terrific Anna Faris keeps this formulaic campus comedy hopping.

The purpose of this comedy is to serve as a showcase for Anna Faris, whose sunny disposition and solid comic timing make The House Bunny more enjoyable than it ought to be.

Factory made, nothing new... and really funny.