If some other dumb-blonde joke is something you've hoped never to suffer once more, make every effort to avoid the protracted punch line that constitutes the bulk of "The House Bunny."
In its shameless pandering to youth obsessed with sex and mindless gratification, this bang accretion of vapid gags is aimed squarely at empty-headed teens interested only in leering at sylphlike bodies and dreaming of the day they lavatory find a college where ogling hotties and mortifying losers is the nub curriculum.
The most supple dead body of all is Anna Faris, world Health Organization plays Shelley, an orphaned brainless (blond) Playboy Bunny who's unceremoniously kicked out of the famous mansion at the dreaded old age of 27 � that's 59 in Bunny long time, she's told.
Homeless for all of 24 hours, she insinuates herself as housemother at a college sorority that's approximately to lose its lease because the girls ar dumpy and drab and can't aim enough new pledges to keep a full roster.
Shelley actualizes her charges by proving they can reverse things some by tarting up with an industrial supply of cosmetics and sexy underthings. This salvo sends the movie into 21st-century dumbed-down "Animal House" territory as a match house full of beggarly, privileged nubile sisters announce war.
The flick makes some concession to likability in a few characters. Emma Stone as one of the smart as a whip sisters world Health Organization sees a spark of goodness in Shelley's intentions displays some measure of humanity.
And Faris herself shows flashes of a true comedic cognizance � outweighed, unfortunately, by her dimwitted shenanigans and the ridiculous wardrobe she prances around in.
A freaky component to the hit-or-miss plot is the presence of Colin Hanks as a normal, decently intelligent guy wHO manages a nursing home where the girls try to practice some "philanthropy."
He strikes up an improbable quasi-romance with Shelley, simply mostly stands around looking at befuddled about what a regular joe is doing in a movie populated by such abnormal specimens.
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