I have never pretended to be a Rob Schneider fan. This picture is pretty much why, but it is the supporting cast who makes it a little more worth watching than other Schneider flicks.

"The Hot Chick" follows Jessica Spencer, as she swaps bodies with a low level criminal and, with the help of her friends, must make their worlds right once again.

Just that sentence makes the picture done before and predictable, but as I said, the supporting cast makes the difference here. In the process of achieving the main goal, Jessica's best friend April falls for her, her father hires her to work on their lawn, revealing all his sexual exploits with Jessica's mother, and somehow has to pull off being a guy in several amusing situations.

April is played by Anna Farris (Scary Movie), who's bubbly persona in this picture definitely shows a bit of range for creating a "character." I'll even say, she is pretty hot in this. Something I've never told myself about Farris.

Youngest of the Lawrence brothers, Matthew Lawrence appears as Jessica's boyfriend, who is constantly hit on by Schneider playing Jess. Those moments are hilarious, simply because of Lawrence's responses.

The gang of female friends Jessica has truly rise above the picture itself in performance, but overall, the writing relies on Rob Schneider as a comedian, which lets face it, out of all the stars in the Happy Gilmore slate of picture, Adam Sandler is the only one with the best chances to come up starring in a decent picture.

By the way, Sandler makes a cameo in this one of course, but its useless. The Happy Gilmore gang needs to leave each other out of each other's pictures. Their appearances just come off as embarrassing. The intertextual material between movies like "The Waterboy" and "The Hot Chick" has gotten severely stale.

Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) plays the actual Jessica and does her best to play Rob Schneider in her body--that wasn't meant to sound dirty. This picture shows McAdams' strength is in comedy, since her performance in "The Notebook" was way over her head.

The worst thing about the DVD disc is the special features. It's loaded with plenty features, but they show the filmmakers and Schneider gloating over how funny and talented they think they are; again, embarrassing.

"The Hot Chick" is a mindless comedy, not even consistently funny. If that's the mood you're in, rent it. Otherwise, keep near the toilet, dinner may be paying a return visit.

Benn - Where's the Humanity?