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Summary: The Lukewarm Chick
Review: As I sit here about to write a review for this latest adventure that pits Rob Schneider into some kind of comedic lunacy, I have to wonder what kind of cartoonish situation Hollywood will put him in next. He's already been a gigolo, an animal, and now he's a teenage girl. What's next?. Rob Schneider as Martha Stewart?!. I think I would actually watch that. This film, like every other Schneider movie, is a film to watch and best be enjoyed if you turn your brain completely off. Like "Deuce Bigalow" and "The Animal" before it, the movie's premise is somewhat funny when you think of Schneider doing it. It always starts off rather fun and laughable, and kind of entertaining. But, as usual, the movie wears out it's premise too thin by the middle or so, and it reaches the conclusion wheezing and gagging. Barely making it to the end with the comedic touch it had in the beginning. This is the way it is with all his movies, and this one is definitley no exception. The movie has a popular, pretty, sexy teenaged girl named Jessica(Rachel McAdams), who is the queen of the school. You know the type. She has her clique of other popular, pretty girls along with her. After Jessica gets some ancient, magical earrings at a store at the mall, she changes bodies with a low life crook named Clive(Schneider), after a run in with him at a gas station. She has one earring, and he got the other. They both wake up the next morning in each other's bodies. This does set up some funny situations, but it also stirs up some predictable ones you can see a mile away. Jessica, in Clive's body, gets the help of her closest friend(played by Anna Faris, who appeared in both "Scary Movie" pics), in hopes of finding out what happened and get back into her own body. Along the way, Faris begins to fall for Schneider, even though it's really her friend Jessica. Like we didn't see that coming. Being trapped in the man's body opens Jessica up to the things around her. Her friends, her boyfriend(Matthew Lawrence), love, and the troubled relationship of her parents. By the way, her mom is hot!. It's the usual lesson we have seen a million times when a rude, selfish person sees what they were so oblivious too. As I had said before, the movie's premise is quite fun at the start, but it soon becomes rather repetitive the longer it goes on. The things that made you laugh earlier are now gone, and in it's place are limp jokes and sight gags that seem rather desperate to make you laugh, or to even smile. When it finally ends, it ends sufferably, and you just want to put it out of it's misery. The cast, tho, all seem game and seem to be having a fun time making the movie. Wouldn't you?. Schneider has always come across as a likeable guy, and can be rather funny when given the right material. Sadly, he hasn't been given the right material vey much. Anna Faris is a real sweetheart. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but she has a real sweet charm and quality to her. She is adorable with an extremely lovely and loveable presence. She was the only one that gave the 'Scary Movie' films some kind of solid credibility. Plus, she looks great as a blonde. Michael 'O' Keefe("Caddyshack" and "Roseanne"), plays Jessica's father, and Adam Sandler, one of the film's producers, pops up in a rather unfunny and annoying cameo. This movie is innocent fun. There is nothing here that says that this is a movie that is anything but stupid fun. Stupid?. Yes. Fun?. At times. These movies are harmless, and they will always have a place in the theaters. I, and most others, still have that part of ourselves that will see these movies and still have a couple of chuckles come out. I hope we never lose those parts of ourself. It would be quite boring. However, it would be so much better if the movies themselves, like this one, put a little more effort into it.
Rating: 
Summary: The Hot Chick
Review: Anyone who sees this movie will be pleasantly pleased with the wackiness and silliness of it all. The plot is light and fast paced and the jokes keep coming one right after another. Rob Schneider plays a criminal who switches bodies with a rude and mean spirited teenaged girl and the two desperately try to find ways to get back into their old bodies. I don't want to say anymore because to say too much would spoil the fun of the movie, but I think there is plenty of fun to be had with this movie. Anna Faris, an extremely talented comedic actress willing and able to do anything for big laughs, especially shines as Jessica's best friend. She, more than the quirky and mildly funny Schneider, is the reason to watch this film. A film that might tug at your heart a few times and keep you smiling from start to finish.
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Summary: Pole Dancing Transmogrification!
Review: This is another in the series of Rob Schneider movies in which he is placed in inappropriate or impossible situations, and reacts. Consider this to be the Devil's Spawn of the 'Freaky Friday' genre. Petty thief Rob changes places with 'Jessica', the prettiest girl in school via some magical earrings, and hilarity ensues. Well, that's the theory, anyhow. Truth be told, there are some amusing and a couple of quite funny moments in the film, but overall it's pretty formulaic. I have two favorite subplots. My favorite involves Rob (well his body with Jessica inside) becoming a gardener for Jessica's father. In this ruse, he is transformed into 'Taquito', and sports a very bad Mexican accent. They go through some ritual male bonding exercises (talking about women, playing basketball, etc.) and eventually Rob is able to save his marriage by resisting having an affair with Jessica's mother, in which Rob has the best line in the entire film when he says, while brushing off her clumsy pass: "This is so wrong in at least five different ways." I don't know why, but that really did amuse me. In the end, Rob says the right things to both parents and their love life is reborn! My other favorite subplot is a bit more base, but basically involves Jessica learn to use a male body. This comes to a peak when she (in Rob's body, of course) tries to learn to use a urinal with the help of an elderly bathroom assistant. It's a very visual piece of shtick, but it was funny, in a base, teenage sort of way. In the end they get the two lead characters back together and the movie's only bout of special effects gives us the Jessica to Rob pole dancing transmogrification. This movie is very much a cookie cutter formula comedy, but it actually has a few moments of amusement to be seen. On balance, it's an OK way to pass the time if you don't want any heavy thinking involved, and it's WAY better than 'Corky Romano'!
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Summary: An Excellent Comic Fantasy.
Review: An Rude but Attractive Teen (Rachel Adams) sudden changed to a Man's Body (Rob Schneider) unknowing that they are Cursed by an Ancient Earings. Since the teen is in a body of a Man and the man is in a body of a Teen. While the Teen stuck in a man's body is trying to find her Original Body with the help of her Friends (Anna Faris, Sam Doumit, Michelle Branch, Alexandra Holden, Megan Kuhlmann & Maritza Murray). Directed by Tom Brady made an Outrageous, Extremely Funny Fantasy Comedy that makes you remember films like:Vica Versa and Like Father, Like Son but The Hot Chick is way better. This film has an Wonderful Supporting Comic Cast. Schneider is at his best, this film is better than The Animal and Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo. Schneider did co-wrote the film with the director:Brady (The Animal). The Film is a Modest Box Office Success that will do better on Video & DVD. See this Movie. For my Personal Taste, this is One of the Better Films, i've seen in 2002. DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and with an clean-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has an Commentary Track by the Director, 30 Minutes worth of Deleted Scenes, Alternative Ending, Trailer and a Couple of Behind the Scenes featurettes. Adam Sandler has an extended cameo, which he Exective Produced the film with Guy Riedel (Crazy/Beautiful). Grade:A-.
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Summary: waste of time
Review: rob schneider has potential but i don't know what as !! he's listed as one of the storey writers for this movie.. dumb and dumber if your caught buying or watching this flick..!
Rating: 
Summary: To funny
Review: Really good movie, also really great acting from Rob Schneider, and also very hot chicks, especially(don't know if u write it like that)Anna Faris. I can't believe that any1 could give this 1 star, if u can't laugh with this movie than u'r humorless.
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Summary: Hilarious! Rob Schneider gets down with his feminine side!!
Review: I got this movie for my birthday last May and when I saw this movie in the theaters, I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair. This film is perfect for girls trying to explain what its like to be a girl, and vise versa. How life is as a teenager, and how love can come true. Just think what it would be like to switch lives with someone that you don't even know and that is of the opposite sex! That's why everyone I know loves this movie!
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Summary: The Hot Chick leaves me Cold
Review: I'm normally a huge Rob Schneider fan, but I found this movie to be a big disappointment. Schneider gas station attendant character trades bodies with a sorority queen after he tries on her magic earring. Schneider then mugs around for the next hour and a half learning to deal with the surprises of having a guys body while trying to get his former body back all with predictably hilarious results. Except that the results are instead predictable, dull and poorly thought out. Is a urinal really that hard to get used to that it takes a week to master? Wouldn't s/he have been beaten up for breaking the guy code and starting a conversation in the bathroom, never mind admiring someone else's mastery of the urinary process? And if you fight like a girl in a fight you're not going to win - you're going to get taunted and then smacked down. I don't care if you're a girl trapped in a guys body or not - you can't kick another guy in the happy sacks. The sentimental bits cloyed and the comic bits dragged and it'll take me a long time in therapy to rid my nightmares of images of Schneider giving lap dances in a bikini.
Be a nice person and don't pick things up from the ground. Lessons learned, no need to buy this one, try some of Schneider's others instead - my personal favorite being Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
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Summary: Update to my first review
Review: My first review was titled "Funny as all hell!". It is, but after watching it about seven times, all I can get is a few chuckles. That is still amazing, though. I Have seen this movie approximately 10 times, and I still enjoy it. It is a romantic (if sick at times) comedy, and the movie makes me happy. For this update, I will give an overview of the album along with additional comments. The most popular (though not prettiest, in my opinion)girl in school, Jessica (Rachael McAdams), has the perfect life, as far as she knows. She is a cheerleader, has the perfect boyfriend, and lives the perfect life. Her relationship with Billy (Matthew Lawrence) is like a Disney fairy tale. Then she steals some ancient earrings from an African artifact shop, not knowing of the earrings powers. She then goes to a gas station that is being held up by a thief (Rob Schneider). She messes around with him while he's filling up the tank and checking under the hood. When they leave, he finds the other earring, which Jessica dropped. He then goes home and puts it on. This is where the fun begins, as the earrings switched their bodies. Now Jessica is in Clive's body, and Clive is in Jessica's body. Watch the movie to find out the rest. Where the movie is the funniest is usually when Rob Schneider is put into bad situations because of the situation. Jessica finds out that her Disney-perfect life is not as perfect as she thought. This movie is romantic and teaches two lessons: what is on the inside is more important than what is on the outside, and not to take anything for granted because you might just turn into Rob Schneider (just kidding). The other lesson is not to take anything for granted because it might not be there the next day.
Oh and by the way, who else agrees with me that the hottest chick in the movie is not Jessica, but Eden (the witch)? I also think Sam Doumit (Eden) should get more screen time because she did a great job.
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Summary: Anna Faris, the real HOT CHICK
Review: I came to the movie for Rob Schneider but I left with a newfound admiration for Anna Faris. Come to think of it, is there any other female comic actress out there who can match beauty and comic timing as well as Faris these days? Her strange attraction to her transformed best gal pal (embodied by Schneider after some strange Egyptian hijinx) gives her plenty of room to stretch to show off her dazzling eyes and magnificent smile and also to bounce hysterical one-liners and overt innocent verbal pellets ("Can I see it?") off the walls. No one expects THE HOT CHICK to be Shakespeare but if you approach it with the right frame of mind you will enjoy the laughs and the occasional uneasy situations (O'Keefe is a joy too). The DVD has plenty of extras to keep you happy. If you saw it in the theaters there may not be enough here to make you spring a few extra bucks but the laughs and Faris might entice you back. If you haven't seen THE HOT CHICK, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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