"The House Bunny" -- Just in time for back-to-school comes a comedy that won't teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush. Well, its depiction of Greek life isn't all that accurate either, but that's beside the point.

The entire purpose of this late-summer entry is to serve as a showcase for Anna Faris, star of the "Scary Movie" franchise, whose sunny disposition and solid comic timing make "The House Bunny" a lot more enjoyable than it ought to be.

Yes, you've seen it all before. It's essentially a female remake of "Revenge of the Nerds," with a script from "Legally Blonde" writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, so it contains the same facetious humor as that 2001 hit. Faris stars as Shelley, a perky Playboy bunny who gets kicked out of Hef's mansion and becomes the house mother for Zeta Alpha Zeta, a sorority full of misfits.

Actually "full" is stretching it, since the Zetas only have seven members, and they need to come up with 30 pledges to keep from being kicked off campus (and having the mean-girl Phi Iota Mus take over their house).

And so Shelley, with her itty-bitty outfits, pouf of platinum hair and an endless stream of malapropisms, transforms these wallflowers into Pussycat Dolls, and turns the Zeta house into the place to be.

Emma Stone ("Superbad," "The Rocker") continues to establish an engaging presence as the sorority's brainy leader, with Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis and "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee playing some of the sisters.