This movie is rated very harshly. It is about playboy bunnies, but there's nothing about it that a teenager cannot see. This is definitely ok for 13 and up.
It took me until about half-way through the movie to actually get into it; most of the humor is typical dorky teen-movie stuff. Mid-PG-13 rating - language, little bit of goofy violence, usual count of sexual *references* for something dealing with the playboy mansion. The initial sterotyping was obnoxious, but I like the fact that later in the movie the main character does try to "smarten-up".
Overall it's not a great movie, but it's okay enough for it's genre; I'd recommend Sydnie White and She's The Man long before it, though.
The House Bunny was a really funny / great film. Jobeth Wagner great in this film. She is in the part were the people are raising there hands to join the soroity. She is Uncredited thou. Anyways, I think The House Bunny had the best movie cast of 2008. Thanks To Jobeth Wagner, Anna Farris, & Emma Stone.
This movie was enjoyable, but doesn't send positive messages to young girls. It says that you need to use your sex appeal to get boys to like you, and for people in general to like you. All of the girls change themselves to become popular and wear very reavealing clothes. Though the messages at teh end are positive, it's still a fairly innapropriate movie. I enjoyed it, it was funny, but younger girls should wait to watch.
I've watched this movie once, and I would say after Shelley moves to the Zeta sorority it becomes a little less innapropriate, just watch out for the playboy photo shoots and at the play boy mansion (no nudity though)
It's part Legally Blonde, part Mean Girls, does not glorify Playboy
I wish I could have checked "on" for a teen girl, and "off" for teen boys. I never like some of the stereotyping I see in movies as far as it affects boys, because so many I know never discuss movies with their parents. But I have a 14-year-old teen daughter, and found it to be fine for her and her friends. If you allow your daughter to see Legally Blonde, this is not much different. Silly and air-headed, college humor, lots of girly fashion, some sexual humor, not a big deal. Every time I thought it was going to go somewhere I didn't want it to, it didn't. There was no glorifying being a centerfold-- it actually shows how ridiculous the Bunny's "methods for getting men to like her" were when she finally has a date with a legitimate nice guy who works for a nursing home. Most of the movie is spent on the college campus and not at the Mansion, and even when they show the mansion, it is pretty innocuous-- no wild lacivious parties. There are no "nude centerfold" photo shoots. And I was glad that, while the Bunny tries to makeover a ragtag sorority, it sent a good message that once they finally were pretty, they realized they were acting mean and judgmental toward people, just like the popular sorority girls. At first I didn't like the fact that the Bunny organizes a jungle-themed type of "sacrifice" party when she finds out one of the sorority girls is "inexperienced", but after the party-goers cheer for the girl and have her slide down into a vat of jello, that's all the further it goes. They don't talk about why she's the guest of honor, she doesn't get carried off by some guy at the end of the party, nothing else. I've already had a good discussion with my daughter about how casual sex is treated like "everyone does it" in movies and how unreal that is so I felt like she could handle this scene. The Bunny gets thrown in jail briefly toward the beginning of the movie for "misinterpreting" what a police officer says and gets thrown into a cell with hookers-- some teens will "get" the whole scene and for others, it will go right over their heads.
FUNNY, some content but still FUNNY. A must-see for chick-flick fanatics.
The only thing bad about this movie is the fact that the main character is a playboy bunny. Still has a good message and some pretty wacky stuff. Watch it with mature 20 year olds and you will laugh out loud the WHOLE TIME!!!