Brian Felts The House Bunny (2008)
reviewed by Brian "The Naked Gun" Felts

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Dir. Fred Wolf
Writ. Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith
Act. Anna Faris, Colin Hanks

Yeah, there is only one reason to see this movie, Anna Farris running around in either a Bikini or less in almost the entire movie. However, the rest of the movie is cookie cutter movie making and blows. So unless you are a teenage girl who hasn't seen many movies, I don't know why you would want to watch this movie, except for the near nudeness of Anna Farris.

Shelley, played by Anna Farris (Just Friends,) is a Playboy Bunny living at the Mansion with dreams of being a playmate. However, one day after her 27th birthday, she is unceremoniously kicked out of the house for being too old. In an attempt to find a new family and start a new life, she becomes house mother to a misfit bunch of sorority girls at the Zeta house with a new mission, to turn these girls into popular bunch of hotties and save the sorority charter.

The only thing I liked about this movie was Anna Farris. She tried very hard to make every un-funny line bearable and used her body to make up for the mostly inept acting from the rest of the cast. Unfortunately, I missed the scene where she shows her bare naked a** becomes someone at works called me. However, I here that it was actually her and not a body double. Seriously, on of the things she did that made me enjoy her work was her technique for remember peoples names when she met them. She would repeat them in an Exorcist voice and it was funny every time. It was also the only thing that was written well.

The most of the rest of the movie was not good. The easiest example of how bad this movie was is the scene that spoofs the "Run, Forest, Run" scene in the movie Forest Gump. If this movie was a 'spoof' movie ala Zucker Brothers, then this scene would be acceptable. But this movie isn't so it comes off cheesy and ridiculous and unnecessary. The writing was just not very original. There were no real problems the group had to deal with and there have only been what seems like 100 movies made about geeks sticking to the popular kids ever since Revenge of the Nerds.

I also have one casting issue, Anna Farris, as a Playboy Bunny, would not fall for the nerdy guy who runs the retirement home unless he is Brad Pitt. Colin Hanks is not Brad Pitt. Also, why is Rumer Willis in this movie? I love Bruce Willis when he is the burned out cop in an action movie and I can live without Demi Moore and her wife Ashton Kutcher, but neither one can act very well and Rumer sure cant either. It also looks like she inherited her father's chin, which is not a good thing. She is an attractive girl but still, no talent and no hot body……no.

The audience for this movie was clearly supposed to be the early teenage girl audience but since the producers knew that there was nothing original in the movie, they decided to sell Farris's body on the trailers and hook us dumb old males into the theater. Oh well, I should have learned.

So this is a movie you can skip. Its not the worst movie out there but unless you like Anna Farris, and her body, it's not worth seeing. I like Anna Farris, and I probably wont see this movie again, except to just the part that shows her a**. That's all.

Brian - the Naked Gun