Freakier Friday

With Everything, Everywhere. (2022) and The Last Showgirl (2024) recently under her belt, you just know that Jamie Lee Curtis is going to give her part in this everything shes got, and she has great fun as the grandmother Tess in their quite imaginative rehash of the original from twenty-odd years ago. This time, the body swapping has not just seen her and daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) change places, but her own daughter Harper (Julia Butters) and her best friend Lily (Sophia Hammons) who just happens to be the daughter of Eric (Manny Jacinto) to whom Anna is shortly to be married. Now the four of them have to find some way of getting back into their own bodies before Ryan (Mark Harmon) has his increasingly eccentric girlfriend Tess put in ...

Ok, first of all, I love the 2 connections of movies when it comes to Jamie Lee Curtis and Disney. If you have seen both Freakier Friday and Haunted Mansion (2023), you will know what Im talking about. I just really love seeing Jamie in Disney Movies and I hope she continues her career with Disney. Also, I really love Lindsay Lohan. She is such a good actress, she is really cute in my opinion and I hope I can also see her in more Disney Movies! Great movie!

This is what happens when you let AI write a script. It feels like Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan sat down and prompted AI to write a piece with some bullet points they wanted to do in a movie and just went with what came out. The onscreen performance of the two seemed like they had a bunch of fun on set, but it's not strong enough to carry the whole movie. The cameo appearances are nice but the forced product placements are off-putting. I went into the start of the movie with low expectations and finished without those expectations being met. I'll watch the "original" with JLC and LL over and over, but this was a one and done.