The House Bunny (2008)

  This was an aggressively stupid movie that featured a decent soundtrack and great eye candy.  It's one of the leftover Christy Collection movies that I added way way back when we had combined our respective DVDs.  The message isn't terrible but I seriously doubt I could ever watch it again.

Orphan Shelley (Anna Faris) dreamed of having a home, and being super hot, found one at the Playboy Mansion.  Then she turned 27 and got kicked out.  Homeless and destitute since everything she owned was actually owned by Hugh Hefner, she wanders onto a college campus and learns about being a housemother.  The only sorority in need of one is about to have its charter revoked for not meeting their pledge requirements, and lead girl Natalie (Emma Stone) thinks Shelley might be the answer.  If she can show the Zeta girls how to be hot and popular enough to draw attention and prosperity, they can keep their charter.  In return, they give Shelley a home and a slightly larger vocabulary.

I cannot overemphasize how trite and predictable this movie is.  It is every "college comedy" stereotype complete with a makeover sequence to turn uggos like Stone, Kat Dennings, Katherine McPhee, Kiely Williams, and Rumer Willis into... how they normally look.  The message of sisterhood and being true to oneself is constantly undercut by the film asserting that male approval is still the only metric that matters.  It was hamstrung from the beginning with a faulty premise that all the pink Girl Power! Juicy sweatpants in the world couldn't fix.

Ladies, you deserve better.  But it is streaming on HBO Max if you so choose.