The Hot Chick | | Cast : | Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams | | Director : | Tom Brady | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 13, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 14, 2005 | | Summary | Totally Stupid... But It Has It's Moments | Content
 | Rob Schneider is a great character actor (see 50 First Dates or Big Daddy), but when he's handed the hollywood reins, it just doesn't quite work out (see The Animal or Deuce Bigelow). Movies like this one or The Animal have a few really great moments, ones that you'll be able to remember later, but that's about it.
In The Hot Chick, Schneider plays a sleezy crook who switches bodies with a girlie, giggly prom queen named Jessica (played by Rachel McAdams). The movie mostly centers around Schneider attempting to play a high school girl, and I say "attempting" because he's not that convincing. McAdams, on the other hand, in her very limited screen name, manages to do what Rob Schneider cannot-- pretend to be a sleezy man trapped inside a beauty queen's body. Jessica obviously wants her body back, and is utterly grossed out to be a guy. She does manage to convince her friends that it really is her inside this man's body, so they nickname her "Spence" and have her pose as the janitor just so she can attend school. What's the con-man doing with the hot body? Stripping, of course, and conning and stealing because it's much easier to do as a sexy woman than as a sleezy looking little weasel.
We see very little of McAdams in this movie, which is one of it's biggest faults. This is also a plot that has been been done so many times, that in order to do it, you have to do something really original. I like the concept of a con-man switching bodies with a high school girl, but there was no balance between these two characters. It should've been called The Rob Schneider Movie. Yes, he's funny and entertaining, but that doesn't make this movie good. If you're a Rob Schneider fan, you'll definitely love this movie. Everyone else... all I can say is rent before you buy. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | One of the Best Movies I Have Ever Seen! | Content
| This movie is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen! When I first saw this movie, I couldn't stop laughing! This movie is sooooooo funny! That's not the only good thing about this movie!
This movie also mixes in romance and drama with comedy, making this movie even better. "The Hot Chick" is funny and heartwarming. This is a must-see movie! I am sooooooo lesbian right now! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 07, 2005 | | Summary | The Dystopian Debutante | Content
| Like "Animal Farm" and "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Hot Chick" is another insightful cautionary tale warning us of the inevitable fallout created by a capitalist economy. In this case it's the hollow, narcissistic personalities the system must nurture to sustain its existence.
"Jessica" is an ordinary suburban high school girl who does and buys what she is told to, and like so many teenagers today she experiences an emptiness inside that seems impossible to fill. She looks to her peers, to boys, to the media, to fashion -- but these are all external things. This emptiness can only be filled by a father figure, who, due to the demanding nature of today's corporate world, was rarely home during most of her upbringing. In this sense, Jessica is the feminine counterpart of the feral Victor from Truffaut's "L'Enfant Sauvage." There is no caring Dr. Itard in suburbia, however, and in order to survive this "jungle," Jessica must transform into her own protective father figure -- only she has had no proper role model; she can only fashion herself after the most primitive male archetype, brilliantly portrayed by "The Animal" Schneider.
This is the second film in Tom Brady's "Animal" trilogy, and here he makes clear his desire to make a collection of films that establish a moderate position between the somewhat pessimistic and chaotic vision of Geoffrey Reggio's "Qatsi" trilogy and the hopeful, synchronistic themes found in Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" films.
Learning to overcome shame is one of the main themes of "The Hot Chick." When Jessica cries to her friends "It's me!" and they only see Schneider, this awakens many a subconscious fear in the audience of rejection due to deficiencies in their own family dynamics: whether it be parental dysfunction, sexual confusion, lack of education, poor economic status, or their brother Arnie. The audience's fear of openly confronting this shame might explain the film's less than stellar performance at the box office, but successful home video run.
Many of Jessica's epiphanies in "The Hot Chick" are similar to those Carl Jung had during his time in Africa, which Brady cleverly alludes to in a cameo by Adam Sandler. Here Brady also uses Sandler to link Jung's idea of a collective unconscious with Wassily Kandinsky's synesthetic theories, which were used heavily in P.T. Anderson's Sandler vehicle, "Punch Drunk Love."
But where "Punch Drunk Love" represented Sandler's inner turmoil with abstract sound and imagery, "The Hot Chick" takes a more direct approach, rejecting Kandinsky's reliance on abstraction and, as the film progresses, mysticism. And just to be sure we understand he isn't merely putting a phallus in the O'Keeffe, Brady also cleverly rejects Freudian drive theory in the bathroom urinal sequence. What's left seems to be an outlook in alliance with Swiss psychologist Alice Miller's -- a belief that conflicts with one's parents must be resolved or else one will remain a prisoner of childhood forever. (A forewarning about not addressing this issue is dramatically illustrated near the beginning of the film when we see Jessica's younger brother wearing lipstick and a brassiere.)
For the most part "The Hot Chick" succeeds in all of its intentions, and unlike other films in its genre (Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" for instance) gives the viewer a sense of hope -- and a challenge: Address "The Animal" inside yourself, and save our world from the dehumanizing corporate machine that exploits our shame and turns us into obedient drones.
I also like the part where he falls down the bleachers. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 08, 2005 | | Summary | Jessica!!!! | Content
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The Hot Chick is one heck of a funny movie! The main plot is this preppy girl and this scum bag man switch bodies, such as a Freaky Friday effect, and he causes lots of mayhem while she gets into a lot of humor along the way. It was a well cast movie and the comedy is great you will be laughing the whole movie! I love this movie and it is a favorite in my collection of movies.
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| Rating | | | Date | February 04, 2005 | | Summary | Wickedly Funny movie! | Content
| I must say that the acting in this movie was superb. Rob Schneider plays both roles rather well. The story line was also well crafted. Overall, this movie was funny from beginning to the end. Please don't eat popcorn while watching this movie, you just might choke yourself laughing. |
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