The Hot Chick
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: December 13, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
I haven't laughed harder at anything this year, but I would have a hard time recommending this gender-bending gut-buster to anyone who doesn't have a high threshold for crude sexual humor and stereotypes. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
At this point, we don't go to Rob Schneider movies looking for laughs: We go for comfort. They're the cinematic equivalent of meatloaf, dependable and filling in their quotidian idiocy. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Faris is delightful, in fact, and she steals the movie right out from under Schneider. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
For the price of a ticket, and 100 minutes of your time, how many laughs are enough to qualify as just compensation? Will four or five do? Let's be generous and count five. Read full review
50
Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
The cast, save the charisma-free Schneider, is uniformly hilarious, and deserves classier high jinks than this Juwanna Tootsie roll. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleC.W. Nevius
Surprises you with heart. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
If you pitch your expectations at an all time low, you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Schneider and director/co-writer/Animal vet Tom Brady continue to subscribe to the notion that any joke worth making is worth beating to death, but there's still something strangely endearing about Schneider's willingness to do anything for a laugh. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
As for Schneider, he may be obnoxious and unhandsome, but he is, more important, talented and fearless, the driving force of this brash, not-so-predictable comedy. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If you're in an especially generous mood, you'll give in to a few laughs. By the end, though, you just may find yourself pining for the good old days of Pauly Shore. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
This unabashedly stupid comedy is, well, unabashedly stupid. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis Harvey
At best routinely assembled -- at worst barely competent. The slapstick is labored, and the bigger setpieces flat. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Marks no discernible improvement on its predecessors "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" and "The Animal," though the sight of the deeply unprepossessing Schneider all dolled up for girlie business is good for a few shallow chuckles. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Rob Schneider runs an obstacle course of taste and emerges remarkably unsullied, considering the choices he faces. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It's a wretched attempt at entertainment, ephemerally redeemed only by the appearance of several attractive girls. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
The first half hour of Hot Chick, before the switch, plays like soft-core porno from the '60s. The rest plays like a bad "Saturday Night Live" sketch stretched to the breaking point. Read full review
20
Film ThreatKris Hanson
This movie is a 21st century take on the tired switched-persons genre, with predictable and obvious gag-inducing results. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
One might expect that with such low goals the film might have at least hit its target more often than it does. Schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Through superhuman effort of the will, I did not walk out of The Hot Chick, but reader, I confess I could not sit through the credits. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderBill Stamets
Flimsy transformation comedy. Read full review
10
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
A mind of overcooked pasta and a stomach of iron may get you through it, but it really is worth considering how desperately you need cheap chuckles while executive producer Adam Sandler and his favorite charity case laugh all the way to the bank. Read full review
0
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaul West
A comedy that surpasses stupidity, and not in entertaining ways. Read full review
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