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The Hot Chick is a 2002 comedy-fantasy film starring Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams.
Jessica Spencer (McAdams) is the "hot chick" who is selfish and mean-spirited. She has three friends: April (her best friend), Keecia and Lulu.
One day, when she is not allowed to get magical earrings, Jessica steals them. While driving home, she and her friends meet a criminal named Clive (Schneider), posing as a mechanic in hope that they won't know about his crimes. After they leave, he gets one of the earrings.
When the two put their earrings on, they switch bodies. Hilarity Ensues!
This film provides exaples of:[]
- Alpha Bitch:
- Jessica, who's actually more of a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
- And Bianca, who is the evil one of the two.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Jessica's younger ambiguously transgendered brother Booger
- Depraved Bisexual: One of the male costumers at the strip club, as he's attracted to Clive as either a woman or man.
- Biggus Dickus: Implied with April's Reaction Shot
- Butt Monkey: April's mother
- The Casanova: Jake openly cheats on April constantly.
- Chekhov's Gun: April and Jessica's Trust Password, though it doesn't take long to fire
- Chubby Chaser: Marlon's got a major thing for Hildenburg. Much to his friend Jake's disgust.
- Dawson Casting: Rachel McAdams (24) and Anna Faris (26).
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Male Jessica, who used a pillow to whack her friends across a room.
- The Dog Bites Back: In a deleted scene, Jake apologized to Alice for cheating on her, but she just dumps him.
- Dumb Blonde: April (kinda)
- Evil Counterpart: Bianca, to Jessica
- Fauxreigner: The white American Jessica, while trapped in the body of the Ambiguously Brown Clive, poses as a Mexican gardener named "Taquito" in order to keep her family from becoming suspicious.
- Five-Man Band:
- The Hero: Jessica
- The Lancer: April
- The Smart Guy: Eden
- The Big Guy: Hildenburg
- The Chick: Keecia and Lulu
- Foe-Tossing Charge: The pillowfight quickly turns into this when Male Jessica actually starts swinging.
- Freaky Friday Flip
- Gender Bender: Jessica-In-Clive's body and vice versa.
- Hey, It's That Guy!:
- Adam Sandler as the Mambuza bongo player.
- Eric Christian Olsen plays another Cocky Blonde Guy in Not Another Teen Movie.
- Tia and Tamera Mowry
- Ashlee Simpson as a nameless member of Bianca's Girl Posse. She has one line, "Barfing more."
- Have a Gay Old Time: Male Jessica has a lot of these moments, leading to her repeatedly being Mistaken for Gay by the same guy. When Clive gets his body back, it turns out that guy was himself in fact gay, and interpreted this as Clive coming on to him.
- Humiliation Conga:
- Clive getting honked two times and getting a burn in his arm by Jessica.
- Bad things always keep happening to Alice's mom as she's concern for her daughter's secretive behavior (that being helping Jessica stuck in Clive's body). This leads to her getting major headaches. She's last seen with a neck brace while hugging her daughter at graduation. Now that everything's back to normal and her daughter gained more confidence, there's likely no reason for her to be The Chew Toy anymore.
- Jerk Jock: Jake, mainly because he's a shameless womanizer.
- Laser-Guided Karma: While Clive (in Jessica's body) is giving Jake a lap-dance, he reverts back to his original body, freaking out and grossing out Jake.
- Left the Background Music On: When Jessica returns to admit that she stole the earrings and get it fixed, the woman who runs the store tells her the story of how a Pharaoh's wife traded places with a slave, but got stuck after the full moon. As she's telling the story, the drums in the background swell as the store owner's story comes to a climax, and then just before the end, she stops, grits her teeth, and tells the man offscreen (played by Adam Sandler) to stop banging on the drums. The man mumbles that he thought the music matched the tone of the story.
- My Name Is Not Durwood: Clive (in Jessica's body) keeps referring to Billy as "Bobby."
Billy (aggravated) It's Billy! |
- Never Trust a Trailer: In the trailer, where they show Jessica (in Cliff's body) calling Billy, he mistaken the person as his coach. In the film, he said "Father Mulcahy".
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: the man saying two rules: No strangling the dancers and Monday night is gay night.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-universe example: "Taquito" forgets "his" Latino accent after Mrs. Spencer makes a pass at "him."
- Open-Minded Parent: April's dad, it seems. He doesn't want his suspecting wife to meddle in their daughter's affairs.
- Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Jessica (in Clive's body) wakes up with a boner.
- Perky Goth: Eden (after she joins the Girl Posse)
- Pet the Dog: Jessica gets one near the beginning of the film with her younger brother.
- Running Gag: Adam Sandler's character keep banging the bongo. (see Left the Background Music On)
- Shout-Out: "That's a HUGE bitch!"
- Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer: The advertisements focus more on Rob Schneider and less on Rachel McAdams. To be fair, at the time of the film's releases she was not very well known as she hadn't starred in Mean Girls yet.
- Spicy Latina: Bianca. While she's never explicitly identified as being a Latina, she is briefly suspected to be a follower of santeria (Cuban witchcraft).
- Transformation Trinket: The earrings
- Where Da White Women At?: Not only does Marlon like Hindenburg because she's white, but also because she's big.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Jessica's little brother Booger.