"Deuce Bigalow" was
funny. "The
Animal" sucked. "The Hot
Chick" is by far Rob Schneider's funniest movie yet. It
is hilarious with a capital "H"!
The movie
begins in ancient Egypt, where a bride evades marriage to a guy by
trading identities with another woman. She does this by
putting on a special earring. The other woman does the same.
The earring became preserved throughout the years and is now on
display at a store in the mall that sells ancient artifacts.
Enter
Jessica Spencer, who is the most popular girl in school. She
browses around the store with her ditsy companions and spots this
earring. She wants to purchase it, but the cashier adamantly
tells her that it's only for display. So Jessica hides the
earrings in a box that contains another purchase and walks out the
store with them.
On their
way back, they stop by a gas station, which is being robbed by
ruthless petty thief Rob Schneider. On his way out, he
impersonates a gas station clerk. When the girls leave, he
sees that one of the earrings fell on the ground. He picks it
up and takes it home.
While
rummaging through all the things he stole, Schneider finds the
earring and jokingly puts it on. At the same time, Jessica
is also wearing the earring and by the next morning...they have
exchanged identities. She is now a he and he is now a she.
I've been recently
blasting gross-out comedies, but that's mainly because there were
too much of them! Lately, I think they have cut down on the
gross-out flicks and that's good, because I don't mind a good
gross-out comedy every now and then. All the gags in
this movie are cheap and sometimes very predictable, but they kept
me roaring with laughter.
Schneider
gives a fine performance as a woman stuck in a man's body.
In "The
Animal" he simply appeared like a man doing
bad impressions of different animals. In this case, it was
much easier to suspend disbelief, because I didn't actually see
Rob Schneider in the role. I saw a woman!
For those of
you who are easily offended, "The Hot Chick" may
not appeal to you. There are gags involving obesity,
homosexuality and Mexican and Asian stereotypes. But those
who can easily take a joke should find these gags utterly
harmless.
The girls
who plays the main character is extremely hot and so is her best
friend, who in a way resembles a blonde Katie Holmes. Sure,
the high school students are either jocks with washboard abs
or hot blondes with big boobs and no acne, and if I didn't get so
many laughs from the film I probably would've found those elements
nauseatingly clichéd. But as long as I did get tons of
laughs, I was willing to forgive those stereotypes and simply
relish every hot blonde that appeared on screen. There's
even a PG-13 (which means no nudity) strip club scene at the
end.
In
standard tradition, you can't have a movie starring a current or
former SNL cast member without having at least one cameo by
another SNL cast member. Adam Sandler make some
hilarious appearances as a pothead, who resembles a white
rastafarian (sp). His running line is "Yeah, and you
can put your weed in it too." You'll see why it's
hilarious when you watch the movie.
"The
Hot Chick" isn't classy in even the simplest sense, but it
kept me laughing the whole time. Maybe a few flatulence gags
could've been trimmed (they seemed to have been thrown in just for
the hell of it), but other than that I appreciated it for its pure
tastelessness. And by the way, for those familiar with
Schneider's two previous films--yes, the "huge
bitch" gag makes another appearance, but I won't reveal
where.
