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The Hot Chick
- Review Date: May 18, 2003
- PG-13
- Genre: Comedy
- 2002
Common Sense Media says
Offensive, vile, and, even worse, not funny.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that The Hot Chick includes extremely explicit and offensive humor in just about every category. There are "jokes" about anorexia, pedophile priests, erections, cross-dressing boys, homosexuality, and race. Potential messages about acceptance and maturation are forsaken for cheap and easy attempts at humor. Teens drink in a dance club, and later, drink at a strip club. In the dialogue, there is strong sexual content, as parents openly discuss their sex lives, and in one scene, a mother makes sexual advances on a "Mexican gardener" who is actually her daughter. The content oftentimes feels more R-rated than PG-13; but even for older teens, there isn't anything of merit in this pointlessly crass and tritely formulaic attempt at "comedy."
What's the story?
This body-switching movie begins with an ancient princess using enchanted earrings to switch bodies with a servant girl so that she can get out of an arranged marriage. Cut to the present day where Rob Schneider plays a petty thief who switches bodies with a snobby blonde high school princess named Jessica (Rachel McAdams), after she steals the earrings from a store specializing in ancient artifacts. The rest of the movie is about Jessica (now played by Schneider) tries to get back into her old body. Along the way, we are subjected to horrifyingly awful jokes about the different ways men and women go to the bathroom, a cross-dressing child, priest molestation of young boys, the thief (now in Jessica's body) having to buy tampons, bulimia, places to hide marijuana, parents of different races, homosexuality, and incest.
Is it any good?
Even by the low standards of Saturday Night Live-alumni movies, and by the even lower standards of Adam Sandler-produced movies, THE HOT CHICK is excruciating, loathsome, offensive, vile, and, even worse, it is not funny. To add insult to injury, it is also much too long.
There is a lot of blame to go around here -- from producer Adam Sandler to star and co-writer Rob Schneider (who, bi-racial himself, should be especially ashamed of the racist stereotyping of a Korean woman and her bi-racial daughter), to director Tom Brady, who brings out the worst in his cast and has no sense of comic timing whatsoever. But we have to reserve a special blame category for the MPAA, which gave this horrendously crude and vulgar film a PG-13 rating, when its content is closer to NC-17.
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Not very innapropriete!
I really don't think that this movie was very innapropriete! There was innapropriete language and jokes throughout, but no sex scenes! This gives a good message about how you shouldn't treat people badly. It was a really good movie.
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Not very innapropriete!
I really don't think that this movie was very innapropriete! There was innapropriete language and jokes throughout, but no sex scenes! This gives a good message about how you shouldn't treat people badly. It was a really good movie.
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Kid, 11 years old
July 21, 2011
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watch this!!!!!
ok i dont no what people r thinking when they think this is not ok. ya there is some sexy stuff in this movie, so? the language is no issue at all. and kina has a good message. This is the best movie ever!!!! Watch it its not a waste of time!!
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Teen, 16 years old
June 24, 2011
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good for teens
it was a movie with alot of sexual things and some bad language like when they barely bleep out mother f###er other wise it was kind of a werid movie had some funny parts and not too bad of a movie
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Teen, 14 years old
February 1, 2011
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I love it!
I love this movie! Its great! Really funny :-)one of the best chick flicks! Laughed all the way through it.
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Kid, 10 years old
December 4, 2010
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Too weird! Not for kids
well.... i didn't watch the whole thing but it's not really a big deal.
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Teen, 14 years old
December 18, 2009
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absolutly halarious and i think that anyone with a sense of humore can understand and laugh at this. True, you have to be a little older to get all the jokes so that is why I'm raising the age.
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Teen, 15 years old
April 9, 2008
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Very Inappropiate...
Everything in this movie is either perverse or immoraly wrong. Beware. I do not know how this movie escaped an NC-17 rating and ended up with a PG-13.
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Teen, 14 years old
June 4, 2010
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Dont Wast Your Time!
please dont waste your time on this movie. it is probably the worst movie i have ever seen!!!! it has some sex scenes and some rude humor. this is a goood title for teenage girls from age 13-15 but dont waste yoour time on this film.
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Teen, 13 years old
May 26, 2011
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okay.
It was okay, funny in places. not that great though
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| Studio: | Touchstone Pictures |
| Directors: | Andrew Adamson, Tom Brady |
| Cast: | Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, Rob Schneider |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 104 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | December 13, 2002 |
| DVD release date: | May 13, 2003 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | extreme crudity and vulgarity |
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