Call me odd but I believe there is much entertainment value to be found in the collective critical response to Paris Hilton's latest vanity vehicle. This Metacritic page of assorted reviews sums things up better than I ever could and makes me chuckle every time I browse through it. (Average rating - "Extreme dislike or disgust."). Even Maitland McDonagh seems horrified, which is saying something. Someday, someone will write a book on films like these, and the titles from Medved's Golden Turkey book will have their revenge.

Man, a 'nottie' is one thing, but that's friggin' Mater Suspiriorum

Talk about a historic moment. Currently, HOTTIE ranks as the #1 lowest ranked film at IMDb, just edging out a Ulli Lommel movie, which gives an indication of how rotten it must be.

The Onion A.V. Club has a pretty funny review of this movie. I love that someone reviewing a movie with Paris Hilton somehow managed to use the term "idée fixe."

http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/the_h..._and_the_nottie

The AV Club has pretty much become my one-stop shopping for movie reviews... although I cringe when Scott Tobias gets assigned a horror flick. Sometimes he just doesn't seem to get it.

But yeah, in this case Hilton almost wraps up being an exemplar of being the Seven Deadly Sins, all wrapped up in one deluded parcel.

Of course, as a vanity project the whole thing creeps me out... that Hilton would blithely have herself packaged as a hottie (ick, in both the use of the word and what it's supposed to represent) and then putting herself up against a coyote ugly for comic value (although I don't even have to give it much thought that the Nottie gets an extreme makeover and emerges from her cocoon a glorious butterfly).

Actually, about the only other vanity project that I can think of that was more deluded would have been Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried... and "Hide the damned thing!" common sense prevailed in that case.

Although judging by her frame, Hilton could be featured in the inevitable remake.