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When you first even see the title of this movie you say what the hell is this??. Then you see the ad for this movie and you think its going to be horrible. Once you watch this movie you see its a cute little love story with a silly exterior. Its a...
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When you first even see the title of this movie you say what the hell is this??. Then you see the ad for this movie and you think its going to be horrible. Once you watch this movie you see its a cute little love story with a silly exterior. Its a shame that they had to advertise this movie really silly. They went for the whole hilton being hot and her friend being ugly. Honestly its only about 2/3 of the movie and the rest is actually pretty good. It tells the story of a loser basically who reunites with his childhood love. He wants to be with her but the only way he can is to get her ugly friend a boyfried. So he goes through all these things to get her a man. They end up meeting a guy who helps to make the nottie nnot so ugly. Suddenly she is hot also and the guy is not sure what he wants to do. I will not reveal the rest but I was surprised about where they went with this movie. I really expected them to just go with the usual ugly jokes and that was going to be the movie. I was pleasantly surprised that they did not and they actually went with a good story. The reason why I gave this movie 2 1/2 stars is because I really expected this movie to be horrible and it was not. Its worth a viewing if you can get past the whole stupid grossout ugly friend aspect.

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Posted may 26, 2008 3:24 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  33
  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.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  30
  Like Nate, we are mere Notties. And we are supposed to feel oh-so privileged for getting to watch Paris through the glass.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  30
  Ultimately best suited for the confines of late-night cable.

  by Frank Scheck | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  25
  Great actors make the craft look easy. In the Paris Hilton comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, acting looks very, very difficult.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  25
  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.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  25
  You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  25
  Though Hilton may be a model, if her work in Hottie is any indication, she is no actress.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  20
  Ugly in more ways than one.

  by Tony Horkins | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  12
  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."

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  12
  Verdict: not so hot

  by Jessica Reaves | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  12
  A cinematic excursion so horrific that it's an insult to bad movies to call it a bad movie.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  0
  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.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  0
  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."

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  0
  Preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  0
  Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash, half-assed, and very, very unfunny.

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »