You’ll have to wait to the end of the post to see why I chose the fractal Easter Eggy for today’s post. I will be reviewing The House Bunny so read on and see if you can follow my chain of thought…-
You have to give Anna Ferris props for tenacity: she wrote The House Bunny then fought for almost ten years before she actually got the movie made. She starred in the movie and was deeply involved in all aspects of its creation. Too bad it wasn’t any better…
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I think I saw basically the same movie (as an ABC Movie Of The Week) way back in 1971, I can’t remember the title but it starred Connie Stevens as a dumb bunny House Mother to a Fraternity of eggheads and losers. The Frat is in trouble but Connie’s charm and natural wit manage to turn things around. In the version Anna Ferris plays Shelley--a 29 year-old Playboy Bunny who finds herself booted from the Playboy Mansion. (Hugh Heffner and his three girlfriends make an appearance--and Hugh does a pretty good job playing himself and making it look believable.) An improbably series of events sets Shelley up as House Mother to the Zeta Sorority--a place so utterly lame it can only manage to attract seven member and thus is in danger of being booted off campus and their house taken over by the evil “popular girl” Sorority of Phi Iota Mu? Will Shelley transform the loser girls into hotties? Will she manage to save the Sorority in spite of the machinations of the evil Mus? Will she find find love with nice-guy Oliver? I’m sure you already know the answer.
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Honestly, I wouldn’t have minded the recycled plot if the movie had just been funnier! Anna Ferris has the look and attitude of a Playboy Bunny--but the stuff she puts herself through is a lot more sad than funny. Colin Hanks plays charming and low-key as Shelley’s love-interest Oliver (and you a strange, ghostly-reflection of his father Tom Hanks) Emma Stone, Kat Demings, Katherine McGhee (yes, the American Idol runner-up), Rumer Wills (daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore) Keily Williams and Dana Goodman don’t fare well as the hapless Sorority Sisters. Former hunk Christopher (formerly “Chris“) McDonald finds himself as Dean Simmons who somehow for some reasons actually LIKES the Zetas.
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I watched the movie in a nearly-empty theater and there was exactly one laugh. Should anyone see this movie? Well, maybe if you’re at your local video store and you’ve down to a choice between The House Bunny, Toxic Waste Mamma or Kitten With a Migraine (and the last two aren‘t even real movies!)
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FINAL GRADE: F
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Now the reason I chose Easter Eggy as today’s image: the “Easter” and “Bunny” connection should be pretty obvious. Likewise, a lot of the image is “Playboy Pink.” Lastly, “laying an egg” is a metaphor for a failure.
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