"THE first screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, written on cocktail napkins and fueled by margaritas, was a female action-thriller about girls who kill members of the Navy Seals.“They’re really mad,” Ms. Smith said demurely.
The script “never saw the light of day,” Ms. McCullah Lutz added, but it cemented a partnership that has made the pair that rarest of Hollywood commodities: a successful female writing team, one whose output (“Legally Blonde,” “Ella Enchanted,” “She’s the Man”) has been frothily funny yet informed by female empowerment."
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This movie looked very funny from the trailers, though I do love Legally Blonde, both movie and musical. I hope to see this movie and hopefully it will be as funny as the trailers lead me to believe.
Before reading this I hadn't realized that the same people behind Legally Blonde and She's the Man were one in the same. I'll admit to liking bad movie, and honestly, sometimes a movie so bad its good is preferred to an actually good one. While I agree with the above post (House Bunny does look entertaining from the commercials), I'm honnestly somewhat convinced and hoping that it'll turn out to be one of those movies that even when its not supposed to be funny it is.
What I've always wanted to see was a play that capitalized on this idea. The almost intentionally bad plot that just lends itself to humor. The only play I've heard of coming close to this is Evil Dead The Musical.
Legally Blonde definitely had its high points and its low points, but lumping it in with Ella Enchanted as an example of female empowerment is questionable at best. Ella Enchanted was a bad remake of what was an excellent book, which really actually dealt with issues relevant to "female empowerment". And from what I've heard about the House Bunny, no one should be holding it up as a shining example of positive feminine movie making. Ugly group of sorority girls needs former playboy bunny to make them attractive? Sounds like a wonderfully feminist message to me.
I also was unaware that the same people who did "10 Things I Hate About You" also did "Legally Blonde" and "The House Bunny" I suppose there is a trend there. I'm not sure that these movies are all about empowering women, or that I wold even classify them as "films", but funny successful movies would be a good way to describe these works.
YES!!
This just made me have alot more apprciation for the movie (althought I have yet to see it.) I guess I just became a fan of these two girls becasue 10 Things I Hate About You is one of my all time favorite movies and by transitive property, I like them. It's interesting the two girls personalities clash but when putting their minds together and collaborating it seems to be a Hollywood money maker. They like what they do and they obviously do it well, so more power to them! They seem down to earth and understand the difference between gross, imappropriate jokes and funny, non-sickening jokes and I truly apprciate that. Although they did mention that comedy can have no caution, they have found a wonderful balance. From what I have heard, The House Bunny is funny, a really funny movie and I am going to see it and this just made me more excited to see it. Who ever said men where dominate?
After watching a zillion acts on from amateur and major comedians that you can find female comedians. However, I can count on one hand how many actually made me laugh. I admit to be a bit sexist with comedy but I have to say these two are a rather entertaining team. No, they don't deliver the sort of laughs I usual look for and it may seem "bubble gum" to some, but they know how to keep you smiling and feeling good. If you can't smile at an actor sticking a tampon up his nose, than there' little joy in your life.
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