Cast-away on the lonely steps of an orphanage shortly after birth is where Shelley spends her childhood -- being the only child that is never adopted. Yearning for love, family and companionship, she develops into quite a beautiful but naively gullible young lady and winds up as one of Hugh Hefner's regulars living at the Playboy Mansion. On her 29th birthday, while the rest of the entourage are in Vegas, she receives a demand letter that she must vacate the premises immediately with only her belongings.
Now, once again outcast and alone, she winds her way to the doorway of the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority where she decides she would like to be a house mother. The house is large, comfortable and reminescent of the Mansion where she could be at home. With a group of seven misfit "Zeta sisters," Shelley immediately takes on the challenge to makeover these unsociable personalities into beauty queens. With her sexy beauty tips in hand, these ugly ducklings transform into stylish model-types as they parade, flaunt and tantalize all the boys on campus.
With the salvation of the Zeta house priority, Shelley comes up with a fantastic vestal virgin party theme creating the best bash on campus where the girls are showcased as sexy, witty, desirable babes. Their quota of 30 pledges is more than accomplished until some trickery by a competing sorority tampers with Zeta's pledge cards, and Shelley must once again take the challenge by the tail (could that be "bunny tail"?) and save the day!
The features include Deleted Scenes, a bevy of featurettes on Anna Faris and the Playboy Girls Next Door and more, plus a final surprise with Katherine McPhee's music of "I Know What Boys Like." Throughout all the features, you'll gain a feeling for this comedienne and her friends as candid shots and interviews cover the actors while they work and play on the movie set and the Mansion grounds.
The House Bunny is rated PG-13 for partial nudity, sexually suggestive scenes and language; parental guidance is strongly urged. This was a cute and sexy little movie, but I felt the language was rather raw and definitely unrefined. The thread of Hugh Hefner wove its way throughout the movie like some womanizing Dali Lama with a likelihood of much of the Mansion's cash being poured into this venture. Somehow the Playboy theme just doesn't speak "good clean fun" or "family entertainment" to me. And no matter how beautiful and charming Anna Faris is, this movie just doesn't make the grade.
