Review of The House Bunny (2008) by Desi C — 12 Feb 2010

No way is this film sexist. I like sexist films, it's I feel the basis of good quality pornography. I regard myself as a connoisseur of sexist films. This is not a sexist film. Yet most women would feel uncomfortable watching it. Most women are bitches when it comes to watching other beautiful women. Now that sounds a little sexist but it's not a value judgement. Let me try putting this another way.

My first thoughts were both how sweetly innocent and fuckin A. It's like having a really young attractive step mother when going through puberty, it's like taking the most tastiest exoticest of fruits, the Durian and then making a cheesecake with it. It is Marylin Munroe resurrected for the 21st Century. The influence of Adam Sandler who is a very sick man a modern incarnation of Berlucci, the animal house guy whom you can't replace or emulate, anyway he does a take on the classic Munroe pic, it's surreal.

The generation before me had Animal House, the generation after me has The House Bunny. Though there is a touch of legally blonde. There is some pre-feminist post ironic representation of womanist theory only with falsies, and make-up, highlight your eyes ladies they are the nipples of the face. Yet it's too innocent, in the way that Princess-not-so-bright is too innocent. Undeconstructed innocent fairy tale that perhaps is too knowing about it's primal integrity. I dunno what that means but why do I have to say clever things to be taken seriously, it's the predicament of the film, for the same reason that women have to show some skin and not sound too clever to go out with men only they don't. You do and you don't. That also is the message of the film.

I came to it thinking it was a chick flick, after five minutes thought no it must be a jock I dunno strap thing I dunno, but no it's a chick flick, if girl power was ever really a girl thing or the PCD phenomenon, don't you wish you gelfriend was a freak like me but somehow allying themselves with gels. I heard the lead singer saying how the song was to be taken but I think I was trying to work out what kind of underwear she was wearing I was minded to settle upon a thong/G string anyway it's just whenever she turned sharply her skirt would flare up, you see that's the thing about the film. Honest and sweet and innocent and I could understand how some gel might not really enjoy it, maybe she'd pretend to enjoy it if she realized I thought it was the beez kneez or maybe not. My age we no longer pretend so much when we are courting. Though everyone tries a little too hard at the beginning and that too is parodied satyrized in this film.

This is my review and I loved it. And some of the one liners were very funny at the time pure throwaway lines like Kindness is love in work clothes. They were like mini-poptastic classics, they sound deep and meaningful while being instantly appreciable and are soon forgotten.

It seamlessly shows that superficial beauty so praised in hollywood and therefore the western world is insufficient, and yet being a geeky intelligent wise grey stocking is also insufficient. The film returns to one of the oldest stories of earth, that of Gilgamesh, the wise King who needed the companionship of the wild man of the forest because only by combining with his natural strength and intuition could the great Bull be destroyed. Hmm. And yet it does what I describe in the form of the classic make-over. I am a almost bunny of a Kantian Mansion, who never quite made the November centrefold. Because a exhibition at Corpus well that says so much about you like a centrefold, it says look I am naked and in the centre, unfold me. I am the heroine of this tale and this is my story.

The film is a representation of Chiron, pure honest beast elevated by the spirit of Man and Divinity enfleshed brought down to earth in evolving Humanity. What do people fear in this film. A really enjoyable feel good film while also being iconoclastic and rebellious.

In the moderate charming way of Legally blonde and with the restrained chaos of Animal House. I decided to watch it after overloading on some of the more serious fare. This was far much more fun and probably more likely to effect change in the hearts of people, in society and in the world than even the weightiest of cutting edge neo-proto-retro noir yeah. I mean those are fun too especially when you get jokes and references that only someone with your intelligence and education could catch without Googol at hand. But isn't it time gentlemen we jumped ship from Phi Iota Mu and pledged for Zeta. Go Zetas.

Ok one scene usually called a spoiler but not sure how telling you what happens in this film really spoils anything, on the dance floor the goth feminist intellectual is completing a Psych survery on male attitudes to courtship using visual determinants basic binary yes no no need to faff with likert scales, a parody of human courtship of its representation, and yet as the reviewer who sold me on this pointed out when he reluctantly recommended this film, there are times when I was laughing out aloud I couldn't help myself.

And a soundtrack for the age. All it would seem strong female singers of our age with their classic numbers. Rihanna no Pink as I recall they should have had a Pink number in it, and I would have dropped that Canadian teenage singer's number but maybe I am being a little to Phi Iota Mu.

Not clear why people well ok yeah she does dress like a bunny, as do her friends, but they are playboy bunnies how are they supposed to dress. And yeah well I am sure if you took scenes out of context. But it's not what people say it is. Oh it's like I am trying to defend my gel here, and that's the sort of feeling it gives in the end. Don't judge by superficials and if a gel is proud of the body God gave her and Dr Libowich has successfully reengineered then why can't she just walk about the sorority house but nekked.

Go sista.