YMMV / The Hottie and the Nottie

• Bile Fascination: Probably the only reason why someone would want to see the film even after hearing that it was once listed as number one in the bottom 100 of IMDB's worst movie list.
• Broken Aesop: The film tries to teach that true beauty is on the inside, but the male lead only takes notice of her inner beauty after she has a makeover.
• Hollywood Homely: June is played by Christine Lakin under unflattering make-up. Her kid version is even more egregious, as there is barely any attempt at making her ugly other than a mole and something vaguely resembling acne(?) on her upper lip.
• Nausea Fuel: During the first half, there's lots of Grossout comedy, the worst parts regarding June's infected toenail.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Joel David Moore, who played Nate, is better-known now for his recurring role as Colin Fisher in Bones and as Dr. Norm Spellman in Avatar.
  • Christine Lakin, who was in the middle of a career slump when the film was produced after having played Alicia "Al" Lambert on Step by Step, has since made more of a name for herself as a voice actress.
  • The Greg Wilson wasn't especially well-known when the film was produced. He's more famous nowadays, but not for good reasons — rather, people know him as the person caught plagiarizing someone else's act on America's Got Talent.
• Special Effects Failure: June looks less like an ugly woman and more like a pretty woman wearing special effects makeup.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: We're supposed to feel sorry for June because guys won't go out with her due to her ugly appearance. However, she isn't really "ugly", she just has bad personal hygiene (bad teeth, bad body odor, bad nails, etc). That's something she can easily prevent by actually brushing her teeth and bathing herself more often, and the fact she won't do any of that means she really has no one to blame but herself for her own laziness.

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