Not wanting to dismiss this movie entirely after seeing the trailer, I decided to sit down and view this with an open mind. To my surprise, I actually found myself giggling at the antics of Rob Schneider trying to portray a teenage girl. Kudos to Rob...if he ever decides to find a new profession, he could always do one of those male reviews in full dress...but let's hope he gets a good wax job this time! This movie was silly, but enjoyable.
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Darkest_Rose30 May 2003A very popular girl named Jessica(Rachel McAdams)accidently switches body with a man who is also a criminal(Rob Schneider)because of a pair of magical earrings. Now Jessica is trapped in a man's body and along with her best friend April(Anna Faris)she must find her body before it's too late but on the good side, Jessica learns a lot about herself, her family and her friends that she did not know before. I didn't have any high expectations for this movie but surprisingly it wasn't so bad and it had a few very funny moments. Oh, and by the way, Anna Faris is the real hot chick in this movie! Anyways, I would give The Hot Chick 6.5/10.
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dobbin-416 December 2007Another movie not properly appreciated by people taking comedy movies too seriously in this film starring Rob Schniedor. The film is extremely funny and shows movies with stupid plots can be pretty good. The story is about a girl who gets a dose of reality when she gets transferred into a mans body. The story is very good and good performances from all the actors make this movie a very enjoyable experience. The movie is definitely light but so is a lot of other stuff. Fans of Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler will enjoy this movie as it is funny, witty and overall a good movie. Overall watch this movie and you will not be disappointed. I rate this movie 64%.
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pidective20 December 2002Rob Schnieder was great in this film. He adapted well to the character of a female. This movie was not dumb, it just wasn't made for those who had no sense of humor. The movie, I must say, was madly hilarious. At some points, I was rolling into the other seat.
Its not very easy for an actor to portray someone of the opposite sex, however, Schnieder did it better than anyone else could.
This is a great movie, however, if you are a 'party pooper' like the last reviewer...with no sense of humor...you more than likely wont like this movie..
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SnoopyStyle26 August 2015Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams) is a mean-girl cheerleader captain. She and her friends April (Anna Faris), Lulu (Alexandra Holden) and Keecia/Ling Ling (Maritza Murray) rule the school. Jessica steals a pair of ancient magical earrings. She drops one of the earrings which is picked up by ugly thief Clive (Rob Schneider). They both put on an earring and their bodies get switched. Jessica convinces her friends but struggles to figure out her new body.
The movie lucked out by having Rachel McAdams as mean girl Jessica. It doesn't take full advantage of the unforeseen advantage. Rachel playing a man is hilarious. She's much funnier than Rob Schneider. Rob is doing his stupid idiocy which is fine. Rachel comes in and steals the movie every time. It's the disappointment of what this movie could have been. -
pachin8 April 2003I enjoyed "The Hot Chick." What can I say, it is a guilty pleasure. When I went to see it I figure it may be amusing but I found myself laughing quite often during the movie. Rob Schneider was very good in the role of the female who ends up in the body of an older man. Anne Faris and Rachel McAdams are quite good in the supporting roles.
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Floated214 January 2011This film starts out pretty straight forward then turns for the worse. I didn't find the gags and jokes in the film funny just disgusting, crude and somewhat offensive in a way. Most of the "jokes" involve Rob Scheinder (as Rachel McAdams- female) trying to figure out how to get used to being a male. A lot of awkward and unfunny jokes are present, such as her using the bathroom, April (Anna Faris) asking to see her/his private, the stereotypical Asian friend's mother randomly coming in from nowhere, and other gay/lesbian jokes. This movie had a pretty good premise but given its's production and direction with script it wasn't as funny as it could have been. I think had it been rated R (incl. R rated material) this could have been a lot funnier. I understand what the filmmakers want us to laugh at. But the delivery doesn't work. Why do audience members laugh when Rob Schneider takes a header down about 100 steps? Not because there's any real humor in the situation, but because the filmmakers expect viewers to laugh, and we have been programmed to laugh, even if that laughter is more of a knee-jerk reaction than something that bubbles up from deep within.
The whole plot who the transformation is ridiculous (even for a fantasy comedy). Jessica (McAdams) steals a pair of ancient earing's (she doesn't know they are ancient) from a shop, which somehow has powers to transform people who wear one piece of earning at the same time simultaneously. Also, the meeting between Clive and Jessica is rather ridiculous and pure coincidence. They meet when Clive is robing a gas station, and Jessica along with her friends are outside in their car waiting for assistance to help put gas in the vehicle. What I don't understand, is why would Clive go and help them. He simply could have said that he isn't the guy who works at the station.
Also, they don't show Rachel McAdams (disguised as Clive)much in the film. She's there a few moments after the transformation but its only in little doses. The MPAA rates this PG-13. Yet it is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13. -
movieman_kev9 June 2005Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams from "Mean Girls") heists a pair of earrings from an tribal shop at the mall. After a run-in with another robber at a gas station (Rob Schneider), she loses one earring from the set. Turns out these jewelery pieces are magical and allow body-switching. We're dealing with a bad news/good news scenario here. the bad new being that the writer is the same responsible for "The Animal" travesty. The good news is this is considerably better. However, Anna Faris shouldn't make any more comedies, in every single comedy I've seen her in she is capable of a whole range of.. ONE expression, that would be being shocked/ Surprised, which would be fine if she didn't use it about 50 times per movie. But if gay stereotypes, fat jokes, and dick humor is your cup of tea By all means help yourself. You know what? I probably made it sound better than it is actually. It all honesty, this is merely an alright film even if it does feel a bit tame for a Schneider movie.
DVD Extras: Commentary by Director Tom Brady; 15 Deleted scenes; 5 featurettes (Becoming Jessica, Becoming Clive, the Hot Chicks, Guest Speakers, and Physical Education); a "Starlight" Music Video by Zed; Trailer for "Shanghai Knights"
My Grade: C+
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ThePhelpsTwinsROCK11 October 2003Another movie bringing the magick of the ancient times to today, unfortunately it does not meet up with the recent productions. This movie will provide you with entertainment if you do not want to think while watching a movie, in a coma, or otherwise catatonic. While this movie does have some messages throughout, and there are some funny moments, too, but none of these save the movie.
The cinematography was poorly done and while watching this movie I noticed scenes where the lighting showed absolutely nothing. This really needed work. The script seemed like it was written by someone with penis envy (sorry Rob Schneider) and those were some of the best lines.
I was completely disappointed by the acting in this movie. Though "Booger" (Matt Weinberg), Jessica Spencer's (Rachel McAdams) brother, was wonderful as her cross-dressing sibling and the only shinning star in this movie. As for Rob Schneider I realize that playing the part of a high school cheerleader is a tough act, but he does not pull it off at all. The rest of the cast is very much lacking, as well, showing little enthusiasm and they appear to have no direction whatsoever.
After switching bodies with a skanky male thief via ancient magickal earrings, Jessica finds herself unable to wear her clothes ~! *what WILL she DO?!* The race against time begins and Rob Schneider as "Jessica" must find a way to get her body back. This is where those pre-mentioned messages (however ambiguous) come through. This and the constant suggestions on where to hide your weed by Adam Sandler raise this movie, if only slightly. This film will either make you laugh a lot or make you wonder what was the point?
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MovieMilhouse2123 June 2003The Hot Chick was a pretty good movie. Rob Schneider was pretty
funny. Plus it had the added bonus of major babes Anna Faris
and Rachel McAdams. I also enjoyed Adam Sandler's cameo and
the stoner guy he played always finding new places to hide his
weed. I also liked the advice the the man in the bathroom (i forgot
who he was) "If you shake it more than twice, you're playing with
yourself" Genius!!!! I would give it probably a 9 out of 10 but that might be me being
generous. I would still tell anyone to go out and rent it if they
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There are plenty of horrible comedies out there, but I have seen few that have so many stereotypes of minorities than this one. We have the Asian woman who speaks poor English and works at a nail salon in the mall; we have the old black man who's a bathroom attendant; we have the black woman who's a fortune teller; we have Rob Schneider pretending to be a jalapeno-eating Mexican gardener named "Taquito"; we have the black guy who's hot for the overweight girl with a big butt... shall I continue, or do you get the point? The movie itself is horrible -- I didn't find myself laughing at all, but just shaking my head and such an overused "switching bodies" plot and angry that we still are seeing movies in 2002 with the same old minority stereotypes. Really offensive.
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dlozano5 July 2003This movie is so like the other movies with Schneider and Sandler. It's funnier by far than "Waterboy". You'll love the warmth and message that's in every Sandler film. The actress who played the hot chick is soooo funny as Rob Schneider. She's not getting the credit she deserves.
The hot chick's little brother, her boyfriend (perfectly played by Matthew Lawrence!), and all the side characters from Ling Ling, Ling Ling's mom, and the hot chick's best friend are just fun to watch. This movie is funny, and I will end in saying Rob Schneider is sooooo good in this film. You'll get a lot of laughs! -
sarahbarkman1 September 2022This movie is hilarious but it's definitely problematic. Multiple homophobic comments. Fatphobia. Misogyny. Racism. But still very funny for having being made in 2002. A freaky Friday of sorts. I highly recommend if you can understand that it's still very problematic but has its merits. Anna Faris is especially hysterical in this role and Rachel McAdams is fantastic at the dual roles. Rob Schneider is, of course, a gem. Plus Ashlee Simpson has a small part. The younger brother is definitely gay but the dad is a disgusting pig so there's that. Also Jan from the office is the mom. And that lady Ross dated that was in college. Overall a fantastic cast.
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peterslam24 April 2022The frustrating part of this movie is the benefit of hindsight knowing what could have been. 20 years later and Rachel McAdams is a far bigger star than Rob Schneider. She is the best part of the movie until she switches bodies and is gone almost completely from the film. The first 20 minutes when it's all on her is far better than anything else in the movie. I think the film would have been far better if we stuck with Rachel isn't of Rob for the whole movie and not a forgettable, lazy comedy vehicle for Adam Sandler's friend which it turned out to be.
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maggien5 August 2003I just saw this movie and I really liked it. It is funny, and yes, painful at times. But it has an interesting message - there is a scene where Jessica's little brother Booger is running after the family in the red high heels. Does his parents have a fit? No. His dad says, "if you are going to wear those, you better learn to run in them." Accepting and warning at the same time. You also notice at the end of the movie that the girls that were enemies at the beginning of the movie, have become friends by the end. They overcome their differences, work together, and resolve a problem.
This is a good movie, and I recommend it. Not every film you watch has to be Oscar level. Entertainment and education can come in many forms. -
mccready-906-45819325 January 2014i hate rob Schneider.
i hate rob Schneider's movies.
rob Schneider is not funny - not ever - not even one little bit not even by accident.
rob Schneider's movies are not funny - not ever - not even one little bit not even funny in a "look how bad this movie is" kinda way.
rob Schneider should be banned from making movies. roger ebert knew he was the worst and roger ebert was a smart man and a very good and fair movie reviewer.
rob Schneider's movies should all be burned or at least locked up in a vault somewhere like fort Knox so that nobody will ever have to watch any of them again. -
pinokiyo25 March 2006People who hate this movie were probably in a really bad mood or offended, perhaps because the character in the movie being mocked portrayed them, or something... I don't know, but seriously, this movie isn't bad! I really had a good time watching this movie. It actually made me laugh quite a bit. Even though most scenes -- especially in this type of genre -- seemed forced, it still worked well. Rob Schneider really did a great job acting as a "girl trapped in a guy's body"; as absurd as the concept sounds, he actually made it pretty believable. I also liked Anna Faris in this movie -- yeah, even though it was yet again, her typical ditsy blonde role, it worked. She made a lot of the scenes funnier, and she looked "hot" on the screen too (not a bias opinion, seriously).
Now, I'm not the type who's always interested in these kinds of movies, but I was in one of those mood where I would give "movies like this" -- judging from the cover -- a chance. And well, I'm glad I watched it.
This movie wasn't just about some guy acting like a girl and expect the audience to enjoy it -- it actually had a great story affecting other characters and family.
I'm a bit surprised this was rated PG-13, since there's a lot of sexual references. So if you easily get offended hearing the word "penis" then this movie isn't for you. Obviously, this is not a movie to watch with a family! But a good laughter fun with your friends, or even watching it alone if you're old enough.
Hey, this is also a great movie to watch after you see a scary horror movie and can't go to sleep! This movie should cheer you right back up.
Great soundtrack too. One song in this movie sounded like a major rip off of Dave Matthews Band; I got a kick out of that. Don't stress over it, it's a fun movie! It's like an adult version of Freaky Friday, but funnier. -
sauravjoshi8530 July 2020The Hot Chick is a comedy movie directed by Tom Brady and stars Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris and Matthew Lawrence.
This movie is probably the perfect example of how to ruin a potential script. The concept is undoubtedly unique and has lot's of potential to transform into a great laugh riot but the opportunity is wasted.
The main problem is the cast as they were not able to portray the characters convincingly and stars like Schneider and McAdams looks irritating. Screenplay is average and deviates from the plot many times and the climax is also average.
Overall it's a fun movie but could've been lot more hilarious and funnier provided the movie had been handled in much better way. -
What is funny, that is a matter of opinion , and is harder to make than a action film. A car blows up, and you got and action film, use TJ Hooker as an example. Comedy, a guy slips on a banana and it could either be sad, or funny. Much harder to do! A friend at the post office wanted me to go to the comedy club on amateur night, I lost my nerve, like the banana one does not know if it is going be sad instead of funny and bomb. Mr S in this movie could have easily bombed, it is hard to the hot chick, for a guy to pull this off shows talent. Adam S had his influence with his over the top style. Either you like this style or not, I find with that comedy, which I love, its material either ages well or dies. Ie OJ type jokes. The fight scene is a classic, but I found the father a little hard to take, but who's parents arn't. In the end, if Political Correctness went its course the world would lose this luaghter, and levity. What a shame, if the I just smelled poo loking face people with grudges decided what is funny, we never would be able poke fun at each other, and laugh with not at each other. This movie is full of stero types that make fun and levity about ourselves, which brings us together. I find people who can laugh at ones self, and bad situation can deal better with life, and I see a bit of this in The Hot Chick. 7 out of 10.
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The-Sarkologist25 December 2011To put it simply, this movie was complete and utter rubbish. Yes, it did have a few amusing parts to it, but simply put, it was rubbish. It would be very tempting to simply end the review here, but I guess I have to outline it a bit more to point out why I consider it rubbish. I should note that for some very bizarre reason I watched this film a second time, but maybe it was so I could watch it again just to remind myself of how rubbish it actually it.
The movie is about a young girl, Jessica, in her final year of highschool, who wakes up one morning to discover that she is a man. The movie then follows the apparently comical adventures that Jessica has as a man and her interrelations with her friends, particularly how she attempts to convince them that she is who she says she is. In a sense Jessica has an epiphany. At the beginning of the film she believes that her life is perfect, and for some reason (okay, there is a reason, and that is because she stole some earrings from some mystic shop) her perfect world is shattered because of this event.
Half the problem with this film is that it takes an incredible amount of acting skill for a man to play a woman. This isn't a Mrs Doubtfire man playing a woman (or any number of Shakespearian plays where a woman plays a man) but it is a woman in a man's body, so being able to perform all of the little nuances of a woman, without actually going overboard, is difficult at best. However, any movie in which a man becomes a woman (or vice versa) is going to be a comedy, and is also going to be overboard.
I can't really write about this film without writing about some aspects of homosexuality. This is where a lot of the laughs in the film come about, not that Jessica actually goes ahead with anything beyond kissing her best friend, but then again this is theoretically heterosexual, because she is a man, physically. However, particularly when they are in the nightclub trying to find a solution to Jessica's problems, it is clear that she is still speaking and acting as if she were a girl, which raises a few eyebrows, and of course there is the scene in the toilet where she attempts to work out how to use her waterworks.
In the short run, this movie is one of those teenage highschool comedies with cheap sight gags and slapstick. It is not in-depth in its themes or its characterisations, and the characters are shallow at best. Granted, Jessica is forced to confront the fact that she annoys people with her belief that she is perfect, however it is a simply 'I'm sorry' and everybody is best friends again. At the end of this film I am left doubting that Jessica actually learnt anything from this entire affair, beyond being grateful that she is back in her old body again. Yes, she does come to learn about true friendship, and also that her boyfriend really does love her, as opposed to her best friend's boyfriend, who is little more than a jerk, but still, there really is, in the end, little to take home from this film. -
"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 that 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 back then, far away from the days of being the female lead on "True Detective" and an Oscar nominee, so it's not too uncommon. And storywise, 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! -
mail-280428 July 2006This is a terrible rip off of "Freaky Friday" and just has the same joke repeated. I tuned into this on TV fifteen minutes in and had to stop watching twenty minutes later, and in that twenty minutes I heard the "look at me trying to pee standing up" joke three times. The characters are unbelievable as they are being comic in one scene and being intimate and emotional in an other-like i are you can't get a date or your husband loves you.
Another problem is that it is about two people switching bodies and yet I only see the man in the woman's body for less than a minute. I hate this film as i've heard the jokes all before and done better, the actors are terrible, the plot is terrible, and it does nothing new to the body switch-ero concept. -
jpalmberg11 July 2003If you like Deuce Bigalow and The Animal you will surely like this one, 'cos it's Robs best movie so far. He and Anna Faris do an excellent job and the movie is really funny. Best of all is of course Adam Sandlers cameo. I would rate the movie 8 / 10.
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TJ138011 May 2006I've never been a big fan of Rob Schneider's movies. I know it sounds cliché to say that his movies are really just ninety-minute "Saturday Night Live" sketches, but I've always thought that was an accurate description. In fact, most of his movies seem to be ninety-minute versions of some of the weak "SNL" sketches that only seem to be filler to stretch the show to the full ninety minutes. I really wasn't expecting much from "The Hot Chick," but I decided to give it a chance based on a friend's recommendation. Much to my surprise, it actually turned out to be pretty good.
The plot of the movie revolves around a shallow and popular teenage girl named Jessica who ends up switching bodies with a petty criminal and overall loser played by Schneider thanks to two magical earrings. She spends almost the entire rest of the movie in this body, which means that Rob Schneider is essentially playing a teenage girl. I said that most of Schneider's movies seem like long "SNL" sketches, and as I am writing this I realize that the whole premise of the movie would feel more at home on "SNL" than in the movie theater. The filmmakers do however manage to pull this off rather well. Jessica is far from a likable person in the first act (essentially the only part of the movie when she's played by Rachel McAdams), so when we see her transform into Rob Schneider it's oddly satisfying. It's a comeuppance, and Jessica is humbled for the rest of the film by the fact that she's no longer the hot popular cheerleader she was before. Rob Schneider's performance as a teenage girl is generally the stuff of sketch comedy, but it is funny to see him in this role, especially since Jessica seems to forget that she's now a 30 year-old man instead of an 18 year-old girl (he does tend to overplay it at times, even to the point where he seems more girly than his female costars). The film also has some heart, with Jessica becoming kinder and a bit more caring once she literally sees her life through the eyes of another and learns that people are not always whom they seem to be.
I admit that this film is much better than I thought it would be, but there are moments where it falls into the typical bad Hollywood comedy traps. There is the obligatory bathroom humor (although, considering the plot of the movie, it actually makes sense and comes across as kind of funny) as well as countless jokes at the expense of the token fat girl and one character's clueless Asian mother. It also has some big missed opportunities in that it only tells Jessica's side of the story. The man she changed into also spends the rest of the movie in Jessica's original body. The few scenes that we see of this total loser suddenly in the body of a hot 18 year-old girl are damn funny, but we aren't shown nearly enough. I got the idea that there was possibly a much funnier movie that was never made focusing on the misadventures of the "Hot Chick Bandit." I kind of want to see that.
I'm still not a fan of Rob Schneider's movies, but I gave this one a chance and was pleasantly surprised. It's by no means a great movie, but it was still better and funnier than I expected it to be. -
=G=15 May 2003...if you're 16 and female. "The Hot Chick" sets up a premise having to do with a punk dude who unexpectedly has his body switched with a hot chick via some hokey spell and then milks it and milks it and milks it. Faris brings her perpetually vacuous persona from the "Scary Movie" movies and easily upstages protag Schneider who gets most of the attention as he struggles with the girl in the guy's body thing which never really clicks. The result is a critically panned doggie which is crude, silly, lively, lacking creative substance, and something only a teenager could love. (C)