Metacritic Film

Hottie and the Nottie, The

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

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content

Regent Releasing
Comedy  |  Romance
90 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters February 8, 2008

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)

WRITTEN BY
Heidi Ferrer

DIRECTED BY
Tom Putnam

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

7 / 100

Critic Reviews

33 Entertainment Weekly
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.
30 Washington Post
Like Nate, we are mere Notties. And we are supposed to feel oh-so privileged for getting to watch Paris through the glass.
30 The Hollywood Reporter
Ultimately best suited for the confines of late-night cable.
25 New York Post
Great actors make the craft look easy. In the Paris Hilton comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, acting looks very, very difficult.
25 New York Daily News
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.
25 Boston Globe
You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.
25 Philadelphia Inquirer
Though Hilton may be a model, if her work in Hottie is any indication, she is no actress.
20 Empire Tony Horkins
Ugly in more ways than one.
12 Rolling Stone
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."
12 Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
Verdict: not so hot
12 ReelViews
A cinematic excursion so horrific that it's an insult to bad movies to call it a bad movie.
0 Variety
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.
0 The Onion (A.V. Club)
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."
0 TV Guide
Preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful.
0 Village Voice Nathan Lee
Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash, half-assed, and very, very unfunny.
0 Miami Herald
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.
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.
0 The New York Times
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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