Jackson Booth-Millard
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!
Brandon Blackwell
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.
