The Hot Chick is a one man show with a one joke story – it’s funny to see Rob Schneider act like a girl. Well, sometimes it is. One day, a pretty, popular teenage girl named Jessica (Rachel McAdams) magically discovers herself switched bodies with some strange man (Rob Schneider) and spends the rest of the movie trying to get back into her own body.

But not before every joke conceivable about a girl being in man’s body is laid out. Anna’s mother advances on her, her best friend falls in love with her, and her father behaves pretty openly with her, believing her to be the gardener.

Instead of saying something significant through the story concept, like Freaky Friday does, The Hot Chick is content to toss out jokes which are crass as possible for a PG-13 movie.

Some of the situations are fairly humorous but most of the laughs that come are just because the whole thing is so incredibly stupid. It’s not laughing with the silliness a la Zoolander, its really just laughing at the horrendously stupid situations out of mere amazement it could be so ridiculous. I suppose a laugh is a laugh after all.

In any case, The Hot Chick appeals only to the basest sensibilities with humor constantly in the lowest veins. If there is anything to say for this films in terms of achievement, it’s that Rob Schneider has managed to go further low-brow than he ever has before. That deserves an award.

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