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“You’re
my best friend and now you’re
a guy - it’s meant to be.”
Hot
on the heels of The Animal Rob
Schneider comes over all teenage
girly.
Jessica
Spencer (Rachel McAdams) has it
all, she’s the high school
queen, hot favourite to win the
cheer leader comp and has the
heart of the best looking boy in
school - despite being arrogant
and loathed by many of her
contemporaries. Jessica’s
problems really start when she
gets hold of a pair of ancient
ear-rings that just happen to
have magical powers, when she
loses one of them it is found by
petty crook Clive (Schneider) ,
before you know it things have
turned all Freaky Friday and
Jessica and Clive have swapped
places.
This
is where Rob Schneider really
comes into his own, playing
Jessica in uber camp style,
Jessica of course has to
persuade her friends that she is
not some 30 year old man with a
permanent 3 day growth (cue lots
of eyebrow plucking, learning to
pee standing up and having a
best friend develop a
crush
on her). To avoid trouble at
home Jess finds herself posing
as new Mexican gardener Taquito
(her father then proceeds to
tell her the details of his sex
life whilst her mother makes a
pass at Taquito.
The
body swap genre has been a
Hollywood
staple for years and it’s not
hard to see why, the fish out of
water syndrome providing
guaranteed laughs. The Hot Chick
is very funny with Schneider
milking the camp as a row of
tents line for all its worth.
Schneider co-wrote the movie and
is more than happy to share the
laughs amongst the cast, there
is even a cameo for mate Adam
Sandler as a stoner bongo
player, also very worthy of
mention is the beautiful Anna
“Amazing Eyes” Faris who is
excellent as Jessica’s best
friend April.
The
Hot Chick is a feel good movie
with a good heart, it’s
message being its not what's on
the outside that counts but who
you are inside.
EXTRAS:
A making of documentary
called The Hot Chick Yearbook
that looks at different aspects
of the movie such as Becoming
Clive and Becoming Jessica, a
whole raft of deleted scenes (15
of them) including one alternate
ending (you can see why they
didn’t go with it too!), a
music video “Starlight” by
Zed and a pretty laid back and
funny commentary featuring
director Tom Brady.
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