Nepotism is such an ugly thing, isn't it? I mean, how else can you explain Pauly Shore's career? I realized that while watching this film. I also asked myself, would Rob Schneider even have a career if not for the help from Adam Sandler who produces most of his films? Films that I'm sure would never see the light of day had it not been produced by a big over-rated star like Sandler who obviously has some influence in the film business. How else can you explain Schneider's line of films? He was never memorable when on "Saturday Night Live", and his movies following his departure from the show are so terrible its pathetic when studios release bad movies ranging from "Deuce Bigalow Male gigolo", to "The Animal". What makes his movies so bad, (among many other million defects) is that Schneider is basically unlikable and incredibly obnoxious, and when he pretends to be a girl stuck in a man's body, it's just plain creepy.
         Not only that, but he's such a horrible actor in both comedic form and dramatic form; much of that can be seen when he pretends to be the female Jessica played by Rachel McAdams and pretty much makes no effort in copying her exact mannerisms or body characteristics. In "Face/Off", Travolta and Cage studied each other's facial expressions, mannerisms, and even their modes of speech which made the film mostly tolerable, but in this Schneider simply acts like a gay guy... not that there's anything wrong with that. The problem is that Schneider makes no effort to mimic McAdams except relies on his own abilities, as few as they may be. Schneider is a lot like Rowan Atkinson, when in small doses he can tend to be funny as was evident in "Big Daddy" as the Hindu delivery man, but if he's on-screen all the time he loses any chance of making you laugh and inevitably becomes irritating. His acting is horrid, and his comedic delivery is often too late and awkward.
         What opens the movie immediately causes me to pre-judge this, which is not often what occurs when I'm watching a film, but the opener with the superfluous and ridiculous special effects-laden Egyptian panorama shot followed by the origin of the mystical earrings is: 1. Redundant, 2. monotonous, and 3.tedious. Do we need to discover what the earrings are before the movie? Why not have the store clerks explain them when Jessica is marveling at them in the magic shop? Anyways, the film starts off with some incredibly bad characters including Jessica who isn't hot as the film promises and is broadly developed; is she snobbish, is she caring, or just misunderstood? The writers don’t let the audience know. Of course it doesn't help that Schneider is one of the writers.
         Nevertheless, we never get to understand her or know her which makes it hard to sympathize when she's thrown into the horrible situation. I was never sure if McAdams and Schneider share this movie because there's basically no main character. Also, we never learn about Schneider's character, who he is, or what he's doing? The origin of the earring is one of the largest plot holes in the film because the opener tells the audience one thing and then we're given another. In the opener, the queen switches souls with her servant to escape royalty, but in the present day Jessica switches bodies rather than switching souls.
         If it had followed its first course, Jessica would be a woman acting like a man, not a man acting like a woman, and their bodies wouldn't switch. It's confusing, I know, but it's not worth analyzing. The film's comedy relies on basic eye-rolling unfunny clichés today's modern comedies rely on from bodily and toilet humor, crude offensive ethnic stereotypes including Asian girls pretending to be African American (to mention only a few), and sexual jokes ranging from homosexual stereotypes to lesbian kisses, to young boys dressing as girls.

Like a formulaic comedy off the eighties, this is terrible. I didn't expect a masterpiece, though, it's basic Rob Schneider at his worse. It's hard to believe Hollywood let's him continue to make movies, I wonder what's the next comedy script he'll pick out of a recycling bin.