Q: Is this an empowering, new-age kind of comedy with strong feminine messages, or is it just another silly comedy?
A: Uh...the second one. There are some attempts at messages about deemphasizing superficial things, but this is still a film in which a "Playboy" playmate improves the lives of a third-rate sorority of unpopular girls...by giving them all makeovers. And she still has to find a boyfriend, of course, because otherwise, how can she be happy?
Q: Anna Faris is the playmate, and she looks to be doing her patented spacey ditz routine. Yeah, that's funny, but I want to know does she show anything here she hasn't shown a dozen times before?
A: Yeah, her bare ass.
Q: Aha! So--nudity, Playboy, sorority hijinks--we're talking raunchy sex comedy, eh?
A: No, not at all, and please don't get this expecting that. The nudity is designed as more comic than sexy (how you interpret it is your business, of course), and the movie is surprisingly not sexy for a movie about, well, a playmate becoming house mother of a sorority.
Q: But is the movie funny?
A: Oh, it has its moments. I like Faris, and she does what you'd expect here, and there are other talented people like Kat Dennings in the cast. But I got bored about halfway through and lost interest. It's not a bad movie, but it never does enough to stand out, and some of the lamer story elements dominate the movie eventually until it all just kinds of fade away. It's worth the price I paid for a rental--free--and maybe it'll play well on cable TV, but I wouldn't recommend it much beyond that kind of scenario.
Q: One last thing: Rumer Willis as a sex symbol: When and how did this happen?
A: Your guess is as good as mine.
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