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Average Rating:2.5/10
Consensus: The Hottie and the Nottie is a crass, predictable, and ineptly staged gross-out comedy that serves little purpose beyond existing as another monument to Paris Hilton's vanity.
Theatrical Release:Feb 8, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Paris Hilton stars as the titular beauty in this romantic comedy. Nate (DODGEBALL's Joel David Moore) adores the gorgeous Cristabel (Hilton), but she refuses to leave the side of her less... [More]
Starring: Paris Hilton, Joel David Moore, Christine Lakin, Johann Urb
Director: Tom Putnam
The story is silly, which needn't have been a drawback -- it might have served as the basis for a frothy romantic fantasy. Unfortunately, the script (by first-timer Heidi Ferrer) is limp and witless, and faintly offensive.
It's a horrible, horrible movie but not because of anything Ms. Hilton does or does not do. In fact, even the actress playing the Nottie is perfectly fine. It's a disgusting film with men so repulsive, even the campy socialite deserves a better project.
Tom Putnam and Heidi Ferrer's gross-out romantic comedy, a vehicle for the persona of vapid celebutante Paris Hilton, is preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful.
It looks like it was shot on middle school AV club equipment, and the jokes, aiming for gross-out value, are merely sad.
Top Critic[The film] regularly grinds to a halt just so Putnam can capture Hilton running, sunning or simply posing -- usually in slow motion.
Imagine the worst movie you've ever seen. Got it? Now try to think of something worse. That something is this movie -- wretched, embarrassing and a waste of the time and energy of everyone involved.
Hottie goes from insufferable to downright intolerable. While it pays lip service to inner beauty, the movie winds up as a feature-length advertisement for cosmetic surgery.
With all her wealth and meaningless celebritude, Hilton is incapable of doing the one thing most of us desperately wish she would do: Go away.
Johann Urb cruises up as a dream date doctor...and his utter blandness nearly bests Hilton’s. If the two of them conjoined, in an instant every interesting book or film or album ever created would implode.
Custom designed for its smirking star (who is also an executive producer), this tasteless train wreck asks only that she preen and prance on cue.
Top CriticThe real problem here is the vacuous Hilton, who not only can't act -- that was a given -- but also has no screen presence whatsoever.
How does this movie fail? Count the ways. It's badly written, ineptly directed and it sets Paris Hilton as the pinnacle of female beauty and desirability.
A crude twist on the old maxim about inner beauty trumping outward appearance.
Instead of ranking as an unforgettable turkey, it's merely forgettable.
Paris Hilton is to movies what mad cow disease is to a tasty burger, but The Hottie and The Nottie is not that bad. Yes, it is bad. Just not THAT bad
This pea-brained vanity production does not have the energy to remember from one scene to the next what it is about or why it is on screen. It is attention-deficit film-making.
Top CriticIt's a total and complete misfire of intention and execution; an utterly worthless, unfunny sack of pain that doesn't deserve anyone's time or attention.
Hottie and the Nottie is ultimately best suited for the confines of late-night cable.
That generous half star rating I tacked onto to this comedy abomination is all for Paris Hilton. Come on, it takes guts (or gross dim-wittedness) to appear on screen again after House of Wax.
Top CriticAt the risk of going against the obvious 'it's-cool-to-hate-Hilton' popular majority, it should be stated up front that The Hottie & the Nottie isn't half-bad.
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