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So much average

Good concept, poorly executed.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A paper-thin concept: After Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls. I refuse to totally dismiss this, because I find it quite engaging, in a guilty pleasure sense. It's meant to be goofy. Unfairly dismissed by some, this is a funny sex comedy. It's not the thing to see if you're in the mood for something uplifting, or something with tons of action. This film was nearly perfect, but sadly still not made for everyone. We know from the start that there is no way for it to really end well. I give this paper-thin comedy a rating of 7 out of 10.

Once you stop vomiting at the thought that Adam 'Not-Funny-In-The-Least' Sandler had anything to do with this film, you might really enjoy it for the presence of Emma Stone.Emma is super as 'Natalie', a sweet girl who wants to help save her sorority. Emma is far out funny. On the flip side, Anna Faris' dumb Playboy Bunny schtick gets old real fast as she appears to have only one expression, although she shows her butt (if that makes any difference). Hugh Hefner tries to act, but it's a no-go.Totally worth tuning in to see beautiful Emma Stone's meticulously laugh-out-loud performance.

Shelley (Anna Faris) is a sweet clueless Bunny living in the Playboy Mansion. All she ever wants is to be a centerfold. However, she's kicked out of the mansion after turning 27. She takes a job as the house mom for a sorority of misfits. In order to stay open, the sorority needs more pledges.Anna Faris is hilariously stupid. Her exorcist low voice is crazy. Colin Hanks doesn't have enough to do other than look stunned. He's a stiff. As for the sorority, Emma Stone looks adorable as the geeky leader. They've uglied up Kat Dennings, and put Rumer Willis in a brace. Katharine McPhee is pregnant. Basically, they put a bunch of beautiful girls and given each one a weird thing to have. Then there's the questionable message that stumbles from time and time. In the 'Revenge of the Nerds', the nerds use their special skills to win. In this one, the girls need to pretty up to win. It's basically a makeover movie which isn't that funny. Luckily Shelley's unconventional makeover is much funnier and the girls learn a lesson about being themselves.

The House Bunny is a possibly decent R-rated comedy trapped in PG-13 hell. Seriously, a Playboy bunny in a sorority house...PG-13? Not to say that this had to be an all-out raunch-fest stuffed with endless vulgarity and nudity. But this is a movie which desperately needs a little edge to it. Instead it constantly approaches the line of good taste and then scurries back to safety. For this movie to work it had to go over the line now and again. As it is things are played way too safe.Of course even if the movie did take a few more chances it was still never going to be any kind of great cinematic revelation. All you're hoping for is a few laughs and the movie fails to deliver them. The story follows Shelley who has been recently evicted from the Playboy mansion for the high crime of being, at 27, too old. She ends up as house mother to the Zeta sorority girls. The Zetas are, to put it bluntly, losers. Shelley has to whip them into shape lest they lose their charter and their house to the mean girls from Phi Iota Mu. Once that story sets itself up there's no drama, it's obvious where the movie's headed. You wouldn't mind the inevitability if the movie gave you solid laughs. But it doesn't. Anna Faris is game in the role of Shelley but she has so little to work with. The script is lousy, the jokes fall flat, the supporting characters offer very little help. Emma Stone is really the only other performer to come away with any credit at all. She plays Natalie, the most normal of the loser Zeta girls. The rest of them are just absurd, and not in a funny way but rather in a stupid way. The two male love interests, one for Shelley and one for Natalie, are total duds. Hugh Hefner proves to be such a terrible actor that he can't even convincingly portray Hugh Hefner. Faris has enough charm, charisma and comic chops to save the movie from being truly wretched. But the movie, afraid to take risks, never really had a chance to succeed. Loosen up, embrace the Playboy storyline, go for that R-rating. Instead all we get is an endless series of tame, lame dumb blonde jokes. This movie was never going to be great. But it surely could have been better than this.