Blu-ray Movie Reviews

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

Have you ever seen those typical geek guy films where you have a bunch of college losers who are trying to figure out how to be cool and stumble upon something? Well this is that film, only with girls. Faris plays a homeless Playboy Bunny who gets hired as the house Mom for a sorority of nerdy girls who are about to have their house shut down. Faris helps them find their “inner beauty” while at the same time learning how to be herself. The film was actually more fun than I was expecting but the story has been done many times before.

Sony opens up strong on this one and delivers some razor sharp imagery with jaw dropping detail and dimension. Honestly, the opening of this one really had me excited to see how good the rest of the film looked. While the rest of the presentation continues on strong, the overall detail wavers a bit here and there. At times the image isn’t nearly as sharp as before and takes on a bit of a flat look. This film was shot with the Genesis digital camera and most of the time it is reference quality detail and depth all the way but I just wish it was a bit more consistent all the way through. Color rendition is gorgeous and the producers made the most of the production design in that department. A solid presentation.

The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix is fun and balances the themes of the film nicely with its mix of poppy soundtrack tunes and environmental ambiance. Dialogue is natural in tone and balance and the imaging across all channels is solid. This isn’t an aggressive mix but it excels in keeping with the mood of the film.

Extras include a couple of production features that look at the film behind the scenes and the fun that was had on the set. Some deleted scenes and trailers are also included. Like all of Sony’s titles, this one is BD-Live enabled allowing you access to more promo stuff on their website.

I had low expectations going in on this one but it turned out to be pretty fun. The A/V presentation is solid and the film has enough laughs to easily justify a rental.