House Bunny
Headline: ** Playboy Pornification **
Title: THE HOUSE BUNNY
Quality: * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: V
Sex: SS
Nudity: NN
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: August 22, 2008
TIME: 98 minutes
STARRING: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Christopher McDonald, Beverly D'Angelo, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, and Hugh Hefner
DIRECTOR: Fred Wolf
PRODUCERS: Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Anna Faris, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith
WRITERS: Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (RoRoRo, PaPa, Ho, LLL, V, SS, NN, AA, D, MMM) Very strong Romantic worldview with strong pagan elements, including virgin girl gets "sacrificed" to a JELL-O Gelatin volcano, plus light homosexual references or innuendoes; 17 obscenities, 11 light profanities, other crude language, and a reference to passing gas; light crude violence such as cat attacks man, girl bites man, sign drops on girl's head, girl burns her legs after standing over a manhole, girl falls over table and hits her head, girl twists man's nipples, and girl gets punched in the chest; multiple blatant sexual references such as boys crudely say that they want to "get with" girl, implied oral sex, girl is excited about "losing her virginity," old man's pacemaker goes off when he sees provocatively dressed girls, multiple scenes of men drooling over suggestively dressed girls, girls suggestively pose for calendar photos, light homosexual reference about men who want to have conversations must be homosexual, provocative dancing where women slap each other's backsides, man in jail is a cross-dressing prostitute, and multiple minor sexual references; rear female nudity depicted from behind, partial rear female nudity, multiple scenes of girls in bikinis, very short dresses and shorts, bare midriffs, female cleavage depicted throughout entire movie, upper male nudity depicted, partial female frontal nudity from the waste down with certain parts covered by strategically placed objects, young pregnant woman squeegees her belly during car wash, woman in underwear, woman stands over manhole as her dress gets blown upwards, and unmarried college coed is pregnant; depicted alcohol use in bar and at a party, plus talk about having been drunk; light reference to rape drug; very strong miscellaneous immorality such as women in jail are prostitutes, main character says "feeling good on the inside is all about looking good on the outside," light masochism depicted with manservant in Playboy mansion, lying, deception, negative view of virginity, lives of Playboy playmates are equated with living a "fairy tale" life.
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers to adults
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Michael Lynton, Chairman/CEO
Amy Pascal, Chairman - Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures Entertainment
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SUMMARY: THE HOUSE BUNNY tells the story of Shelley Darlingson, a Playboy Bunny who teaches a bunch of social misfits how to be pretty on the outside, attract the opposite sex and thereby save their failing sorority house. Containing plenty of foul language and sexual references, THE HOUSE BUNNY is just another tool being used by the Playboy franchise to promote sexual immorality as a means of personal fulfillment completely divorced from God and His moral character.
IN BRIEF:
THE HOUSE BUNNY tells the story of Shelley Darlingson, a Playboy Bunny who becomes housemother to the socially clueless girls of Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority. After being kicked out of the Playboy mansion by a rival, Shelley teaches the sorority girls how to be pretty on the outside and attract the opposite sex, as a means of saving their dwindling sorority house. Unless they can sign a new pledge class during rush week, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the crafty girls of Phi Lota Mu.
THE HOUSE BUNNY is just another tool being used by the Playboy franchise to promote the immorality of the Sexual Revolution, as a means of finding personal fulfillment and discovering the "beautiful you" on the inside. Although the filmmakers attempt to add values in the last few minutes, they fail to make up for the pervasive sexual messages in the rest of it. Also, the movie suffers from a poorly written script and the acting is not believable. True beauty is found only in Christ. It is only through him that we each discover the person He created us to be.
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