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Hottie and the Nottie, The
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Hottie and the Nottie, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 7 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.1 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content

Starring Paris Hilton, Joel Moore, Christine Lakin, and Adam Kulbersh

Nate Cooper has been smitten with Cristabel Abbot since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, or maybe send her a valentine, his family moved away. In the intervening years there have been other women in Nate's life, but none who could measure up to Cristabel. Convinced she's the only girl for him, Nate decides to move back to L.A. and track her down. The good news: she's still single and stunning. The bad news: there's a reason she's still single. Cristabel's still best friends with the same ugly little girl Nate remembers from first grade, June Phigg. The two are inseparable. They live together. They go to yoga together. They would even go on double dates together...if only June could get a date. And Cristabel simply refuses to leave dear June home alone. Determined to spend as much time as possible with Cristabel, Nate sets out to find a boyfriend for June. But even when he pays them, guys all flee at the sight of her. And then it hits him: June needs a makeover. But as Nate and June become friends and she emerges from her cocoon, Nate slowly realizes that the girl of his dreams isn't the hottie at all. It's the nottie -- who turns out to be something of a hottie herself. (Regent Releasing)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Heidi Ferrer  
DIRECTED BY: Tom Putnam  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 6, 2008 
Theatrical: February 8, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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33
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The Farrelly brothers could burp out a movie funnier than The Hottie & the Nottie, a farce of corrupt stereotypes that's never more grotesque than when it pretends to be more than skin-deep.
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30
Washington Post Desson Thomson
Like Nate, we are mere Notties. And we are supposed to feel oh-so privileged for getting to watch Paris through the glass.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Ultimately best suited for the confines of late-night cable.
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25
New York Post Kyle Smith
Great actors make the craft look easy. In the Paris Hilton comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, acting looks very, very difficult.
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25
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
You've got to admire Hilton's complete conviction in herself as the center of all that is beautiful and good. And maybe such unwavering self-regard is actually kind of hot. Or not.
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25
Boston Globe Ty Burr
You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.
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25
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Though Hilton may be a model, if her work in Hottie is any indication, she is no actress.
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20
Empire Tony Horkins
Ugly in more ways than one.
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12
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
That generous half star rating I tacked onto 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."
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12
Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
Verdict: not so hot
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12
ReelViews James Berardinelli
A cinematic excursion so horrific that it's an insult to bad movies to call it a bad movie.
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0
Variety Dennis Harvey
Paris Hilton has already ushered a remarkable three features into the Internet Movie Database's "Bottom 100." The Hottie and the Nottie will make it an even four.
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0
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
How is Paris Hilton in her first starring role to receive a national release? Pretty bad, actually. She's limited to a single, all-too-familiar expression of smug self-satisfaction, and she delivers her lines in a tone somewhere between "seductive" and "dish-soap commercial."
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0
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful.
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0
Village Voice Nathan Lee
Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash, half-assed, and very, very unfunny.
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0
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
The most astounding thing about this abysmal comedy -- aside from the fact the studio actually allowed critics within a mile of it -- is that it's so ghastly it is beneath even the meager dignity of Paris Hilton.
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0
Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
It's not like Paris Hilton to rise above her material, but The Hottie and the Nottie sinks so low that all she has to do is stand upright.
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0
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
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.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.1 (out of 10) based on 89 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Keny O gave it a0:
My advice to Paris: Go away Paris No one likes you. It's simple, but so is this god awful movie.

Alicce T gave it a2:
Argh, Paris Hilton just irritates me. The only reason she done the film was probably to make her the centre of attention. The story line is actually quite dencent however Hilton does not give a great performance and therefore i rated the film 2 because its good but i just really don't like Paris Hilton.

Kris T gave it a1:
This was absolutely horrible. Just an excuse to see Paris Hilton's not-so-hot body and face! The horrific script and terrible acting by all parties with absolute dry and unfunny humour. The only reason I'm actually giving it a 1 was because of the cliche ending - which they actually did partly right. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM! It is an atrocity!

Dennis D gave it a0:
A complete, waste of time.

Alana b gave it a9:
This is a movie, that if you over look the Paris Hilton slow motion scenes, is actually really cute. I loved the ending, and most of the gross out humor was a little over the top, and the toe nail made me gag, but over all it was pretty decent. I would not say that Ms. Hilton is a great Actress, and it seems the only thing she is good at is looking pretty, but if you take her out of the equation and look more at the bigger picture, its a very cute romantic comedy that I would watch again. Renting only though, It wouldn't be worth the eight dollar movie theater price.

gokil gave it a0:
Paris should learn from her grandfather how to achieve success without making herself looks cheap.

John F gave it a10:
A cinematic masterpiece. This easily trumps mediocre works such as Schindlers List and The Godfather. This deserves every oscar, grammy and Tony award on how stellar it is. Paris Hilton emerges as the greatest actress since Madonna. I dont get all the bad reviews.

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