There's a certain movie genre - let's call it the moronic-gross-out-teen-humour-with-

gender-swapping-and-loud

-sound-effects-especially-farts-

not-to-mention-wildly-exaggerated-

violence-plus-cameos-from-like- minded-idiotic-comic-TV-

and-screen-personalities-adept-at-sex-and-drug-jokes-a ll-wrapped-around-nubile-blondes

-- and for people who like this sort of thing, The Hot Chick is just the sort of thing they like. A lot. Rob Schneider stars in The Hot Chick as a stupid petty thief. Rachel McAdams co-stars as a cruel, bitchy, spoiled high school "it" girl. Ancient earrings that carry a curse allow the two to switch bodies, but nothing else. That means our perfect blonde wakes up to find she has become a 30-year-old, hairy, smelly guy. And our stupid petty thief wakes up to find he is a pretty young blonde.

You get the picture.

Most of the laughs in The Hot Chick are based in Schneider's ability to carry on as if he were, in fact, a teenage girl. See how he minces around, how he dances, how he is utterly lost at the urinal in the men's room. The bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect, but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie -- Schneider in a fight that involves hair-pulling and biting, for example -- and the adolescent crowd devoted to Schneider can expect to laugh themselves silly.

Throw in cameos from Adam Sandler as a deadpan, dread-locked doper, and that crowd may reach nirvana.

Moral? Glad you asked. After walking a mile in someone else's shoes, our spoiled heroine eventually returns to her own form, but wiser and with more compassion.

The Hot Chick is completely ridiculous, and involves toe-curling scenes of gender confusion and inappropriate sexual advances -- all the more reason for the target audience to love this film. So long as you know what you're getting into, The Hot Chick makes perfect sense. It's like when you go to McDonald's, you don't order the lobster. You know?

Of course you know.

(This film is rated AA)

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