The House Bunny
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 22, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesMichael Ordona
Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Silly but endearing comedy. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
The movie is basically on one level and Faris on another -- in that exclusive aerie occupied by Judy Holliday, Carole Lombard, Lucille Ball and a few other blissfully original comedy goddesses. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Manages to stand on its own two skyscraper heels thanks to the comic force of nature that is Anna Faris. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn Anderson
A blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNathan Lee
This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The picture is sharp, in a warm, fuzzy way, about the ways women can sometimes inflict cruelty on other women in the name of feminism. Feminism doesn't have to be the enemy of kindness, but sometimes -- alarmingly often -- it is. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The movie flaunts its comedy roots like a messy bleach job. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorRobert Koehler
For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Bunny is fashioned as a bawdy comedy with heart, but its reliance on formula undercuts the amusing moments. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie is a commercial for Hugh Hefner that makes his magazine seem like "Seventeen." Read full review
60
SlateDana Stevens
The movie also has some embarrassing laugh-free stretches, but Faris holds everything together with bubbly intelligence, unexpected line readings, and a few deft pratfalls. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's funny. Dumb, yes, but funny. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Despite a winning performance by Anna Faris, the cutest thing in platform shoes since Goldie Hawn, the film falls on its keister so many times that before long the perky pinkness turns bruising black-and-blue. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Faris has mostly logged time in dire vehicles like The House Bunny, which are dumb-dumb to her smart-dumb. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
So haphazardly written and directed that it barely qualifies as a movie, The House Bunny is watchable solely for the comic stylings of the blond veteran of the "Scary Movie" series. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith may not have any original ideas, but they write some good lines and have a great actress to deliver them. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
This empty-headed comedy about a Playmate who finds herself a house mother to a group of misfit sorority sisters is little more than a recycled version of "Legally Blonde" with bunny ears. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Yes, from "Blonde" to "Bunny," it's abundantly evident that the two scribes have mastered, truly mastered, the serious art of self-plagiarism. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Unfortunately, Ms. Faris has neither an adroit script -- House Bunny is a stale collection of dumb bunny jokes -- nor Ms. Witherspoon's wily charm. And the filmmakers do Ms. Faris no favors by inviting comparisons to Marilyn Monroe. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The resulting hodgepodge of unfunny, sophomoric humor and PG-13 T&A, frosted by a sheen of appallingly nauseous "drama," makes for such a noxious brew that it's amazing viewers stay in their seats for the entire production. Read full review
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