Paris Hilton and Christine Lakin in Regent Releasing's 'The Hottie and the Nottie' Photo

Hottie and the Nottie

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

Directed by: Tom Putnam

RS: 0.5of 4 Stars

2008 Romantic Comedy

That generous half star rating I tacked onto to 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. Hilton — my nominee as Hot Bad Actress for the ages — is still pretty waxy as Cristabelle, the hottie who will sleep with her nerd prince (Joel David Moore) on one condition: He must first find a consort for her bff June (Christine Lakin), a nottie of such scabby, acned horror (oh, that foot fungus!) that you know a makeover is coming. Too bad no one thought to makeover the compendium of clichés in Heidi Ferrer's script or teach Tom Putnam that directing means telling the actors to keep doing takes till they get it right. At one point, Cristabelle tells a guy, "pay our bar tab, bitch." An easy laugh that Hilton cannot land. Rumor has it that Hilton wants to spinoff this crapola as a TV series. You've been warned. But it's still better than Fool's Gold.

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