Tuesday comes around yet again, time is flying by this year, we're almost in March! Anyway onto the film, after last week's romantic comedy You've Got Mail, we fly headlong into yet another chick-flick, (yes, we at Tuesday Night is Film Night love the chick-flicks).
The chick-flick in question is;
The House Bunny
Well, when the film started it was debatable whether I was a little too old for this film, maybe 30 years too old! It certainly feels like it is a teen movie, the basic premise of the story is as follows;
Shelley Darlingson (played by the very pretty Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who has just turned 27 and is unceremoniously kicked out of the Playboy Mansion (more on that later). Homeless and jobless, Shelley stumbles upon a school, where she discovers the various sororites and is rejected by the popular one, but is accepted by the unpopularsorority, which is just about to be shut down.
So there is your formulaic plot, vapid, dumb-blonde Shelley, is out to save the girls of Zeta sorority.
Simple and vapid. This could describe Shelley and indeed, the film, but...............
..... and this is a big but, it's not that simple and / or vapid.
Yes, the film is true to the genre, formulaic, predictable, fluffy, pink and girlie, but it's also laugh out loud funny! (And chock-full of pretty girls! What's not to like?)
There are some real funny moments as Shelley takes her house of mis-fits, nerds and weirdo's and turns them into popular girls on campus. There's no real point going into details here, you need to watch the film and understand the characters, so you can see for yourself the transformations, but do look out for the Forrest Gump pastiche, very funny.
Hugh Heffner makes an appearance as well, as it is his Playboy mansion where Shelley lived at the beginning. (And he didn't really kick her out, another plot line to look out for).
All in all The House Bunny was a surprisingly good film.
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