Product Description

A young man moves to L.A. to track down the woman he's been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one hurdle to overcome: what to do with her ever-present, not-so-hot best friend

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35162 in DVD
• Brand: RYKODISC
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Features

• Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore) has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton) since he was six years old. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, his family moved away. Now, years later, he moves to Los Angeles to find his long lost love. The good news: Cristabel is still single and stunning. The bad news: Cristabel is still best friends with June Phigg (Christine Laki

Amazon.com
Celebutante Paris Hilton takes on leading lady status in this fluffy comedy about the mysteries of love, and the importance of orthodontia. Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore) is an unfeeling commitment "challenged" lemon. His fed-up girlfriend runs out on him and he’s just about hit rock bottom. Haunted by his childhood, he can’t seem to get over his kindergarten crush with the cutest girl at school, Christabel Abbot (Paris Hilton). Unable to move forward in love and life, Nate decides to track down Christabel, hoping to unlock the key to his future. As luck and movie magic would have it, Christabel has blossomed into LA’s hottest blonde who's miraculously single. Unavoidably however, there’s a catch: she’s still playing guardian to childhood best friend and physically cursed June Phigg (Christine Lakin) and has made a solemn vow of chastity until June has a boyfriend of her own. Considering June’s sad and highly exaggerated state of affairs (e.g. rotting teeth, whiskers, etc.), Nate is faced with a daunting task. As his hare-brained schemes to find June an appropriate suitor evolve, she begins to undergo an extreme inner and outer transformation. When her teeth are whitened and the moles and whiskers are removed to reveal a Hollywood actress-like allure, Nate "suddenly" has an unobstructed view of her "inner beauty" and in an epiphanic moment realizes that love and destiny are pretty confusing things. Lacking verisimilitude and plagued with gross-out jokes, spotty direction, and an underwritten script, much of the film plays out like Farrelly brothers' sloppy seconds. Nonetheless, there’s plenty of silliness, some good laughs, and a very willing cast who is more than up to playing along, most notably the talented Lakin and Moore. Hilton fans can rejoice in knowing that within the limited confines of the script, she aptly holds her own and when given the chance, has comedy potential. All in all The Hottie and the Nottie is a modest ultralight romantic comedy that though forgettable, is not without its charms. Neither a Hottie nor a Nottie, let’s just call this a Middle-of-the-Roadie. - Matt Wold

Customer Reviews

So pathetically bad it is funny
Long story how I ended up seeing the movie, but this is sooo bad, words can't say.

The movie is an excuse to parade Paris Hilton around. With that, it succeeds.

But lacking a decent script, plot and acting, this is one bad movie.

Actors, Writer, Director & Financiers Deserve A Place In Hell
What a great way to get rid of an un-wanted house guest. Keep a copy of this film close at hand, and when you have had just about all you can take, put this film into your dvd player and hit the play button.
If they haven't high-tailed it out your door within 15 minutes, pray for a visit from Freddy.

Honest, I Only Saw This Because I Thought It Was THAT ONE Paris Video!!
Unkind Paris Hilton jokes aside, this wasn't the worst movie ever to come out of Hollywood, just the worst so far this year. It had some laughs and geeky Joel David Moore has the makings of this decade's Tom Green. (Left-handed compliment, huh?)

I'd have given TH&TN a second star if it had been only a little bit less inclined to fall back on shallow gross out material, but truth be told that's about all it had going for it. There's also something abrasive about movies that feature a message of conformity-via-individual-transformation as the answer to life's problems. Frankly I thought June, the titular "Nottie" character, played by Christine Lakin, though replete with bad teeth, facial hair, mole, leaking nose, toes from Hell et al, had a lot more individuality than the version of herself she became later. Not unlike Marcia Brady's friend Molly Webber, whom Marcia helped become a self-confident beauty back in the `70's, or the ugly duckling-to-swan Tai character in Clueless thirteen years ago, under the tutelage of Joel David Moore's Nate and Paris Hilton's Christabel, Christine Larkin's June becomes appropriately and acceptably gorgeous by present standards, and ONLY then does her inner beauty become apparent to all.

Yawn!

Sure, June may have needed a good shave and maybe her teeth put you in mind of Austin Powers, but, come on, isn't being proud of who you are the very basis of all those After School Specials we used to watch in sixth-grade health class? Um, no? Well, anyway, I got on The Breakfast Club's case about making its message "conform through image" and yet The Hottie & The Nottie goes about a hundred times farther with that theme and is a hundred times less enjoyable.

Forgetting all that for a second, TH&TN probably doesn't deserve the scorn it's gotten. It does have some legitimate laughs, the cast does earn its paychecks, and there's no malice in Paris Hilton's performance or character. I somehow doubt this flick's going to be much of a force to be reckoned with come Oscar Night, but it's no worse a time waster than 90% of what the movie industry churns out every year.

1 and 15/16ths stars.