The Hot Chick is a 2002 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tom Brady, from a screenplay by Brady and Rob Schneider, and starring Schneider, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian Olsen, and Rachel McAdams in her film debut.
The film follows Jessica Spencer (McAdams), a mean-spirited cheerleader who switches bodies with incompetent criminal Clive Maxtone (Schneider).
Adam Sandler served as executive producer and made an uncredited cameo as the Mambuza Bongo Player, a character based on one played by Schneider on Saturday Night Live.
[2][3][4][5][6][7] In 50 BC, in an Abyssinian castle, Princess Nawa uses a pair of enchanted earrings to escape an arranged marriage by swapping bodies with a slave girl.
After that, she and her friends visit the local mall, where Jessica gets her rival Bianca into trouble and finds the earrings in an African-themed store.
At her own home, where she works as a gardener, her parents tell her about their marital problems and she helps them rekindle their sex life.
Faced with Jake's infidelity, April begins to fall in love with Jessica, who agrees to take her to the prom.
At the cheering competition, Jessica signals romantically to Billy while disguised as the school mascot, but when the head of her suit falls off, he becomes confused and leaves with Bianca.
After Jessica makes up with Billy, the film ends with the school's graduation ceremony, followed by a scene in which Clive, still running from the law and still dressed in lingerie and handcuffs, is picked up by a bartender who believes, based on earlier events, that he is gay.
Wes Takahashi, former animator and visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, makes a cameo appearance as a news reporter.
[citation needed] The film opened at #5 at the U.S. box office on the weekend of December 13–15, 2002, taking in US$7,401,146, averaging $3,338 across the 2,217 theatres where it was shown.
The critical consensus read: "The Hot Chick's one-note concept gets stretched thin, and a lot of the jokes fall flat.
Rob Schneider was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor of the Decade for his performance in the film.