Excellent, a Must See

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

"The Hot Chick" is an American English-language film from 2002, so this one has its 15th anniversary this year already. The writer and director is Tom Brady (not the famous athlete obviously) and for him, it is definitely the most known work of his career so far. This may also be the case for lead actor Rob Schneider, who is also a co-writer here and it is not the only occasion he worked together with Brady. Schneider certainly was a bigger star back then than he is today, but I believe he did a good job overall and he is certainly not less talented than the blockbuster comedy lead actors of the 2010s. This does not refer to Adam Sandler who I liked as well and who has a small cameo in here in two scenes. He's a good friend of Schneider and executive producer of this 105-minute movie. This duration includes the credits though, so it is almost 10 minutes shorter in fact. The good news is that the script and Schneider's performance are good enough for the film to never drag despite the fairly long runtime for a comedy movie. The female lead is played by Rachel McAdams, but she is really only lead in terms of the plot as she almost disappears completely around the 20-minute mark. Maybe the young Anna Faris has even more screen time than McAdams here. But this is no surprise because McAdams was not famous back then yet. It's telling that the credits state that this film is introducing her to audiences and this was still before her roles in very famous films like "Mean Girls" and "The Notebook". But this one here is still her breakthrough movie somehow and I must say when she was on screen she was perhaps the best aspect of the film, not just because the title fits her very well.One of the biggest strengths of the film is that it basically never takes itself too seriously. Even in the more serious moments, it is all about character developments and they manage to make them look relatively light luckily. The film never tries to teach audiences something important and that's really perfect this way because otherwise the film could have gone wrong easily. But it succeeds. There are some pretty funny moments and the makers did a good job I believe in using the comedy to make people ignore some of the less realistic plot developments. Then again, it is all good as the core plot here about a crook changing bodies with a high school student is extremely absurd already. It is a parallel to a Lindsay Lohan movie, but not about mother and daughter this time and also not about lovers/spouses like in a recent German film where characters are switching bodies as well. So it is a bit of a new idea, especially for when the film was made. Of course, not all the comedy is working, but that is okay as it is no perfect film of course. Everybody will like or dislike certain scenes for subjective reasons. I personally disliked the fart humor scenes and I must say I was a bit disappointed Oscar nominee O'Keefe got such weak material here as his scenes are among the worst the film has to offer and he is a much better actor than he can show in here. But yeah, it's just subjective. Robert Davi (who plays one of my very favorite Bond villains) was wasted too unfortunately. But these are just minor letdowns. The biggest disappointment for me perhaps was that the focus after the body switch was 90% Schneider and 10% McAdams, maybe an even bigger gap and I would have loved to see a more balanced proportion. But like I said, McAdams wasn't a star yet then, far away from the days of being female lead on "True Detective" and an Oscar nominee, so it's not too uncommon. And story-wise, it actually makes sense because the high school student's life is far more interesting and entertaining than the crook's probably relatively lonesome life that may have added too much seriousness to the film. So overall, they probably made the right decisions apart from wasting a couple really talented actors here. I recommend the watch and I believe this is one of the best comedies of 2002. Don't be fooled by the surprisingly low rating. It's a fun movie and has lots of guilty pleasure potential. Watch it!

The Hot Chick is so under rated I don't understand how people cannot like it! The film is so harmless it really is just fun to watch. The bad ratings are just not fair the film is a simple comedy film. My personal favourite scene which I found myself crying and laughing at is in the locker room when Billy is saying how much he likes Jessica all these lovely love quotes I found myself crying at the poor cuteness of it but then laughing at Rob Scheidners role in the scene, It really is hysterical actually had me howling Overall the film is just harmless fun and enjoyable to watch many times through out the film I found myself smiling All though it isn't no Oscar winning comedy film it is worth a watch definitely.

I had heard the title of this film before, and I assumed because of the lead actor it was meant to be rated terrible, but I was surprised to see it had some positive things said, so I decided I had to see if I would find it funny. Basically Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams) is a popular and attractive high school student, with friends April (Scary Movie's Anna Faris), Keecia (Maritza Murray), and Lulu (Alexandra Holden), but she has low opinions of others, including overweight Hildenburg (Megan Kuhlmann) and goth like Eden (Sam Doumit), and she has her rivals, like Bianca (Maria-Elena Laas). One day the girls visit a mall and find a shop full of African stuff, and Jessica spots a pair of ancient earrings, the shop keeper cannot sell them to her though because of their high value, so she steals them. At the same time, small time criminal Clive Maxtone (Rob Schneider) is robbing a gas station, and in the process he is forced to pretend to be the attendant for the girls, and Jessica accidentally drops one of the earrings which he picks up, and back at home they both put one of the pair on their ear. The next morning, the curse put on the earrings has caused them to swap bodies, so Jessica has become Clive, and vice versa, and this comes at a bad time because Jessica (Schneider) is meant to take part in a cheerleaders competition and there is the prom. After convincing best friend April and the other who she is, and forced to show her new penis, they have to investigate why she has swapped bodies, and find a way to restore her, and in the meantime all she can do is try to be manly. They do eventually find out about the cursed earrings, and returning to the shop the shopkeeper explains how they work and that the only way to swap back again is to find the other one, or it will be permanent. Jessica lives with April in the meantime and manages to secure two manly jobs, and her own parents cleaner also trying to rekindle their relationship, and as the school janitor, and she spies on her boyfriend Billy (Mrs. Doubtfire's Matthew Lawrence) who loves her. She is also spying on April's boyfriend Jake (Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd's Eric Christian Olsen), who is having it off with another girl, and as time goes by April is falling in love with the new Jessica. As all this has been going Clive, inside Jessica's body, has been forced into buying period products, but he has been making money using the body he now owns to get away with a lot, making money off of men, seducing them in their cars, Billy included. After winning the cheer leading competition, it comes to the night of the prom, Jessica taking April, and she manages to seemingly convince Billy of her identity too, but he runs away in disgust and unwillingness to give into feelings he had before. Hildenburg sees Clive on the news, and all the girls go to a pole dancing club, where he has been Jessica's body to get high tips, and both earrings are recovered, and put on Jessica and Clive return to their rightful bodies. Jessica makes up with Billy and they share a true love kiss, Clive is arrested, but escapes, still wearing lingerie, and picked up by a homosexual bartender that as Jessica his body had seen before. Also starring Licence to Kill's Robert Davi as Stan, Melora Hardin as Carol, Adam Sandler as Bongo playing shop assistant, Fay Hauser as Mrs. Thomas, Jodi Long as Korean Mother, Matt Weinerg as Booger, and Dick Gregory as Bathroom Attendant. Schneider is certainly what makes this film what it is, and he creates most of the laughs with his committed feminine side with girly mannerisms that make him look very camp, I admit they could have shown a bit more of McAdams being manly, but it doesn't matter much. The body swap concept is something I have seen numerous times, Freaky Friday is the obvious example, but this was probably the first time I'd seen man swap with woman, and it is done in a most amusing fashion that actually works, a fun comedy. Worth watching!

An attractive and popular teenager who is mean spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.This review is coming from a fan of Rob's "The Animal." Although stupid, the film packs in fun and great humor. So through my liking of THAT, I suspected liking this one. Wrong. The Hot Chick has a great premise, similar to "Freak Friday." I thought it would be great because Rob is surely great for this role. But once things start kicking in, I started to lose my interest. The humor seemed a bit lame at places, but it had it's redeeming places. The whole 'ancient' background wasn't needed and the antics of each we were not all that great. First off, I'm not calling this a bad film. It was funny in places. But sadly, that is ALL it combines. Humor... Nothing more, nothing less. The acting was average at best and everything else was half of what I expected. So, unforgivably, the time lacked what "The Animal" had. It had heart and great humor to add. But this film only gives us some few entertaining scenes and abruptly stops it's course. If that's what you like, dumb films, then this surely would be a great pick. But if you enjoy smart and intellectual films and the occasional punch of goofiness, I wouldn't settle down for this one. That's a cut. 5/10.