You know how some films play better on TV than they do in theaters? The following is one of them. At least I did the mall-matinee thing, and the target audience seemed to have a grand ol' time.
The House Bunny (seen Aug. 29, 12th movie of August)
The House Bunny wants to be a cinematic cousin to Legally Blonde, using the same female writing team (Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith) and a likable actress (Anna Faris) seeking a breakout comedy. Instead of honoring Blonde’s canny mix of smarts and the color pink, though, Bunny settles for pedestrian dumb-blonde humor. Girl power comes in the form of makeovers and boy ogling: Evicted Playboy Bunny Shelley Darlington (Faris) must help a group of misfit sorority sisters (including Rumer Willis and American Idol wannabe Katharine McPhee!) save its house from their Plastics-like rivals. Faris plays her trademark wide-eyed, breathy-voiced naïf well, but the real surprise comes from Superbad’s Emma Stone, evoking a pre-scandal Lindsay Lohan as the most socially adept of the Zeta Alpha Zetas. Perhaps Lutz and Smith can build a franchise around the effortlessly cool Stone, one that honors Reese Witherspoon rather than the Girls Next Door.
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