
Finding family. Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she's summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she's now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a ... (Full plot summary below)
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Finding family. Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she's summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she's now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring, not act too smart, and host great parties. Can she succeed, and what about her own makeover? Sabotage is everywhere, plus it's hard to be one's self.
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| TeletextVictor OlliverHefner resembles a benign zombie these days and no doubt was pleasured by the free publicity for Playboy. |
| Can MagazineFred TopelTheir makeovers are not superficial. It's just basic interaction. It's not bad to dress like human beings. And making over that brace is a real triumph over adversity. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank Swietek[An] on-and-off comedy...as airheaded as its ditzy heroine. But it has a goofily good-natured quality. |
| Film Journal InternationalEthan AlterA thoroughly predictable empowerment-fantasy/fish-out-of-water comedy that owes its modest success entirely to its star. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowThe screenplay inflicts a little more injury on Faris than it intends to by committing the very sins it half-heartedly attempts to parody. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanLike a modern-day Lucille Ball, Anna Faris is a pure and utter natural, brilliant at getting a laugh and just as adept at finding the pathos in the unexpected. This is the brightest comedy so far this year. |
| San Francisco ExaminerRossiter DrakeFaris' ability to turn an otherwise mediocre exercise into a charming farce may not earn her any awards, but it gives us something to look forward to - namely, her next movie. |
| Sin MagazineAustin KennedyWhat else can you say about a movie when Christopher McDonald counting to 30 is the funniest thing that happens in it? |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaAmong the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithThe unstoppable Anna Faris has perk in her pipes and a pep in her step, but a bum script working at every turn to tear her down. That's a shame, because with the right material, Faris could do very well, indeed. |