The House Bunny

This is a Pygamalion story, and in American pop culture it goes like this:

The cool kid helps the geek become cool. In the process, the cool kid becomes less superficial, and comes to appreciate the inner beauty of the geek.

This story is such a cliche at this point that it’s a surprise to see it repeated here with no apparent irony or self-awareness. Worse, sorry to hear the producers didn’t get the memo, but we are living in the age of the hot geek girl. Those huge eyeglasses do nothing but emphasize Emma Stone’s beauty, and on any modern college campus, that Zeta house would have boys swarming around it. The trailer shows Shelley (the bunny) trying to make herself smart for a smart guy, but it doesn’t show her succeeding, and it doesn’t show her coming to realize that these girls don’t need her help, which would be the only outcome that might make this movie worth seeing.

About the other images:

Cold Comfort Farm, in which aristocratic Kate Beckinsale cleans up a depressed rural branch of her family, and She’s All That, in which Rachael Leigh Cook, finding herself the object of a bet by cool-guy Freddie Prinze Jr., rallies the geeks to make herself homecoming queen. These are two examples of this sub-genre not sucking eggs like The House Bunny is going to.