The Hot Chick (2002) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA 2002
Director: Tom Brady
Cast: Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams, Eric Christian Olsen, Melora Hardin, Alexandra Holden
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 13 December 2002
Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

The Movie Review

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The HOT CHICK
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Being creative is one thing. And being funny is something else different. That's the case that I often find with Rob Schneider movies. Where creativity and humor sometimes don't click. He is a creative and fun guy with different ideas on his mind, but making a comedy film might not as easy as it looks, since comedy sometimes pertaining taste and requires more than just goofiness.

The Hot Chick is another movie written and headlined by Rob Schneider. Before this, Rob has role as an animal in The Animal (2001) and also as a gigolo in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999). Now Rob becomes a hot chick, literally. Hot and creative indeed, but funny..? Unfortunately not quite...

The Hot Chick storyline revolves around Jessica (Rachel McAdams), a beautiful cheer squad leader but selfish and mean. Jessica, after bought a pair of mysterious earrings, in the next morning find herself trapped in a male's body. The male Jessica (Rob Schneider) is shocked and totally disgusted with her look and the fact she now has beard and moustache and a penis. She's not pretty and hot anymore, moreover her loyal boyfriend Jake (Eric Olsen) doesn't believe that the curly man (male jessica) is his girlfriend. Jessica with the help of April (Anna Faris) and some of her friends frantically search for the real owner of her male body who appears to be a petty criminal. Jessica and her friends must find him before the end of the full-moon cycle, if not then Jessica will be stuck as a man for the rest of her life.

See, I like the premise, and as you could already guess, the jokes are derived from the male Jessica who still acts like when she was a girl. Such as her naughty winking at the guy who sells drinks, her statement of love to the flabbergasted Jake, her trying to urinate with her new "thing", her effort to get close with her family without arising any suspicion, and stuff like that. If you do like these kinds of jokes, I'll say, you'll have much fun. Although I do still think the jokes left something to be desired. If you don't like those kinds, those jokes are backfires. It's simply a matter of preference.

Rob Schneider still acts goofy but nice as he often portrays his characters on the movies since Surf Ninjas in 1993. While the rest of the cast like Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams, Matthew Lawrence and Eric Olsen show acting quality fit to the genre. The Hot Chick is simply another entry to teen flick world involving romance and slight mishaps with a touch of creativity and cliché kind of joke.

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