House Bunny

Fluffy pink comedies are not the stuff of great intellect, but they somehow have been dubbed to empower women anyway. So if you liked Legally Blonde, you should by right, get a kick out of House Bunny. And considering Anna Faris is blessed with the sole talent to satirize blond ambition, casting could not have been a more perfect choice.

Faris plays Shelley Darlington, a Playboy bunny who is expelled from the mansion on her 27th birthday because 27 "is like 59 in bunny years". So the dejected Shelley finds herself living on the streets until she stumbles across the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority house. Though the place is falling apart, she sees it as a mini mansion, thus applies to be its house mother.

The rest of the movie is spent replacing geeky girls' glasses with contact lenses to unveil ultra hot Katherine McPhee and Emma Stone. Which really, helps these girls learn a lesson about inner beauty by unleashing their outer skank. In return, these girls coach Shelley to get Oliver, a guy who prefers brainy geeks to chicks.

While the moral of the story preaches young women to be at their best when they feel good about themselves, it seems to demonstrate that girls need to conform to stereotypes other people desire instead. But nonetheless, Faris does a good job to distract the audience of this with engaging ditzy spells. So long as you don't read too much into it, House Bunny could muster a chuckle or two out of you.

Cast Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Colin Hanks, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Wilis Director Fred Wolf Runtime 98 mins Opens 16 October

Text Claudia Low