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Vergi Rodriguez The Hot Chick
Starring: Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Vergi Rodriguez, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian Olsen Directed By: Tom Brady Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2003 Running Time: 104 minutes Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 2002
Amazon.com: It's no surprise that The Hot Chick is stupid; what's remarkable is the ambition of its stupidity. After a hokey, Mummy-like prologue to establish the body-switching spell cast by an ancient pair of Abyssinian earrings, the low-concept lunacy begins when those earrings are divided, eons later, between a cruel-minded high school campus queen (Rachel McAdams) and a small-time crook (Rob Schneider), who switch bodies (externally he's the hot chick, and she's the vulgar sleazeball) and must cope with the consequences of their sudden gender crisis. This tired idea may seem fresh and funny to eight-year-olds and morons, but Schneider and first-time director Tom Brady (who wrote Schneider's The Animal) fail to fulfill the potential of their ripe comedic premise. McAdams plays a guy better than Schneider plays a girl (which explains her limited screen time), and the expected jokes (mostly involving urinals and awkward prom dates) are sluggishly uninspired. In a cameo role as a dreadlocked stoner, coproducer Adam Sandler offers only brief comedic respite. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description: A beautiful but mean-spirited college girl finds herself mysteriously transfered into the body of an unpopular older man. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD
Rob Schneider should be beaten It's hard to put this any other way, The Hot Chick is one of worst movies in the history of cinema. Frankly, I'm amazed that any serious actor would even give this pile of garbage a second look, and since Rachel McAdams and Anna Farris are the only serious actresses - and that's being quite generous - it's clear that everyone involved is either a career masochist, or completely oblivious to how bad the idea for this movie was when they read the script. And if it's the latter, then they have the decision making skills of an infant.
The plot of this movie - and I'm using the words plot and movie loosely - is based off of the tired storyline where one person has their personality switched with another. In this case, it's an incompetent male theif (Rob Schneider) being switched with the typical, prettiest girl in the class (Rachel McAdams) who also happens to be heinously mean.
It's up to the girl (Schneider) and her/his friends to find out how and with whom the switch took place. Unfortunately, the people behind this travesty decided it would be a good idea to have Rob Schneider not only dress in women's clothes, but also chose a size that would only have worked if he were 50 lbs. lighter. Aside from that, the movie is awkward in that "accidentally waving to someone who's waving to someone behind you" sort of way. From nail-painting scenes, pillow fights, and an entire movie full of scenes of a 40-year old guy hanging out with three teenage girls, it just fails on every single possible level.
The most preposterous part of the entire movie is the fact that a teenage girl goes missing for an entire week, and her parents hardly even notice.
I'm sure there's a message in there, a completely insane message of tranny-acceptance or something like that, and an completely failed attempt at cohesion, but I started to feel nauseous after about 30 minutes of seeing Schneider's ugly mug in Hello Kitty t-shirts; so, I obviously had to fight through the rest of the trainwreck.
Rob's Best Movie Here is a movie that not only is funny but I thought relatively wholesome in its message. I was really impressed with Rob's acting. He really engendered the qualities of each personality to a T. I think switcheroo movies are great exercises for actors to stretch their abilities. Too bad Rob other movies other than the first Duce Bigalow have not been as good. The Hot Chick however is one I can watch over and over again and profusely enjoy.
I bought it and I'm not sorry! Yes, as many have pointed out, The Hot Chick is a stupid movie with a stupid plot. However, if you are looking for some outrageous laughs, this is the DVD for you.
Rob Scheider is cute, funny and his performance is a scream. I am not sorry I purchased it. So, sue me.
I laughed; so sue me... As utterly uninspired and ridiculous as `The Hot Chick' is (and what Rob Schneider movie isn't utterly ridiculous) I couldn't help but find it funny. Sure, none of the laughs are really original and none of them are smart or witty in the way that some newer comedies have been but `The Hot Chick' will succeed it smacking your funny bone around quite a bit. It's stupid humor, and as can be assumed by the main star and the subject matter it's going to be `dirty' humor as well, but it's humorous and that's what counts.
The story revolves around rich snob Jessica and petty thief Clive who magically switch places after a pair of cursed earrings cross their paths. I know, I know, the beginning is a total `Mummy' rip off but come on, it's stupid yet funny. Anyways, with this pair of earrings in their possession (each has one half of the set) they wake up in the others body and that's when everything hits the fan. Clive is happy with his newfound situation since he realizes he can use Jessica's body to make much more money but Jessica is devastated to wake up in Clive's body (who wouldn't be) and so she enlists the help of her best friend April and a slew of other girls to get her old body back.
This is far from an original idea and the funny is far from fresh, but it's still extremely funny. It's predictable as all get out but it's mindless fun and sometimes you just want to sit back, turn off the brain and soak in the funny.
Rob Schneider is not the most talented actor or even the funniest comedian but here he does serve up laughs effectively. I just love Anna Faris. She has that whole `sweet girl' shtick brilliantly and while this is not her best performance it is still delightful. Michael O'Keefe and Melora Hardin are effective as Jessica's troubled parents who look to their mysterious gardener (Clive, er um, Jessica) for advise. The rest of the cast is hot or miss and no one else really has enough screen time to justify a shout out but no one takes away from the film and Adam Sandler's cameo is quite memorable and entertaining.
So, it's not perfect, not even close, but as far as commercial comedies go it's worth watching at least once. Just know not to expect anything revolutionary or thought provoking, but I'm sure that you can ascertain that by the cover of the DVD, let alone the name that occupies the `starring' slot.
Rob Schneider at his best ;) I'd give this two stars really, though I stuck an extra one in for Rob Schneider's performance.
Cheesy ancient treasure in modern times causing a 'body swap' between a middle aged man(criminal) and a high school girl(tramp). Until the actual 'body swap' happens, you'll have to put up with about 30 nearly intolerable minutes of high school cheerleader crap, watching girls go to the mall and shop and act like the complete airheads they are supposed to be. If you haven't turned it off by that point (it was a close thing for me) then it does actually start to get funny, once the 'accident' happens.
This movie is a light hearted comedy that doesn't take it self at all seriously and can be amusing to watch in the same way that other Sandler/Schneider films have been. Though I wouldn't consider it one of the better of the "Happy Madison" productions; its forgettable.
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