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 | 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 26, 2005 | | Summary | Anna Ferris the real star of this comedy | Content
| Hot chick uses the switcheroo as the theme for this movie. Rob Schneider plays Clive a thief who ends up switching bodies with a stuck up popular pretty girl named Jessica. Jessica steals a pair of earrings she had no business taking. Turns out the earrings have some kind of ancient spell on them. When Jessica is bumped into by the thief, they each have an earring not knowing that when they fall asleep and wake up they will be in bodies other then their own. Jessica wakes up and realizes she is the thief to her horror and the thief wakes up realizing he is now a girl. Clive now Jessica goes in search of her friends to help her figure out what is going on and help her get back into her own body before the prom. The scene with Jessica getting maced by her friend April (Ferris) garnered a few chuckles. The one scene that did make me laugh hard was Jessica's first attempt of using a urinal. There is one scene involving Jessica's parents that was also kind of funny. Rob transforms into Taguito the gardner and bonds with the father, but also has to later ward off mom's sexual advances. What I wanted to see more of was the McAdams time as a guy because I'm sure that would have added to the movie. Watching Sneider act girly is actually kind of comical. Anna Ferris (Scary Movie, Scarey Movie 2, Scary Movie 3) is simply fantastic in this film as Jessica's best friend. The movie ends with the bodies being switched back, and all being well in the world. The Jessica to Rob pole dancing transformation was a hoot as well.
The movie made me chuckle a few times, but other than that it was just an okay movie. Adam Sandler has a forgettable cameo in the movie and R&B artist Angie Stone plays the part of the store clerk that did not want to sell the magical earrings to Jessica. Matthew Lawrence, Tia and Tamera Mowry (Sister Sister) also star in this comedy. Die hard Schneider fans will enjoy this movie. For those that are not Schneider fans will find this movie worth a rental or two.
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