The Hottie and the Nottie 2008

Nell Minow, Chicago Sun-Times: This pea-brained vanity production does not have the energy to remember from one scene to the next what it is about or why it is on screen. It is attention-deficit film-making. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: A waste of 90 minutes. Read more

Suzanne Condie Lambert, Arizona Republic: 'This movie hates women' is written over and over in my notebook, but that's not quite fair. This movie hates unattractive women. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: With all her wealth and meaningless celebritude, Hilton is incapable of doing the one thing most of us desperately wish she would do: Go away. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Johann Urb cruises up as a dream date doctor and his utter blandness nearly bests Hilton's. If the two of them conjoined, every interesting book or film or album ever created would implode. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Hottie goes from insufferable to downright intolerable. While it pays lip service to inner beauty, the movie winds up as a feature-length advertisement for cosmetic surgery. Read more

Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Heidi Ferrer's screenplay...succeeds at just one thing: trumpeting one of the most anti-feminist messages in recent film history. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, 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. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Working from Heidi Ferrer's wholly uninspired script, Putnam runs through all the gross-out gags you'd expect. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Ultimately, The Hottie & the Nottie is no worse in many ways than a lot of teen-centric comedies, which generally appeal to their audience through cruelty and vulgarity. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: [The film] regularly grinds to a halt just so Putnam can capture Hilton running, sunning or simply posing -- usually in slow motion. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: It looks like it was shot on middle school AV club equipment, and the jokes, aiming for gross-out value, are merely sad. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: I would like to tell you this gross-out-on-camera is every bit as bad as its title implies, but that would not be entirely true. It is much, much worse. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Hilton has the meticulously manicured appeal of a lawn where every blade of grass has been individually cut and polished. Head coyly tilted, hip out-thrust, she makes purring kitten, predatory lioness moves not often seen outside of beer ads. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For all its problems, though, The Hottie & the Nottie provides a valuable service. It reminds us that no matter how bad a one-star movie might be, it could always be worse. This is worse. Read more

Drew Toal, Time Out: Visionary director Tom Putnam injects new life into the stale romantic-comedy genre by introducing a hot girl and her ugly friend, only to pull the rug right out from under us by transposing their roles when you least expect it. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: A stark yet comforting reminder that cold, hard cash is no substitute for cold, hard talent. 'The Hottie and the Nottie' is an execrable Z-grade eugenics parable moonlighting as a sexy, disposable date movie. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: A certain disappointment sets in when the consummate awfulness subsides after an hour, becoming slightly less painful. But then, dropping a hammer on your foot improves that way, too. Read more

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Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash. Read more

Desson Thomson, 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. Read more