Freakier Friday - Movie Review

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Moving on a lot of ageist jokes in this movie and it's kind of the fun of the Freaky Friday premise but there's another one for you. So in the previous Freaky Friday film the remake of Freaky Friday the mother-daughter duo of Tess and Anna swap souls swap consciousness never makes sense why but it doesn't have to for Freaky Friday it's magic. Now there's a lesson to be learned before they can swap back and here we go. In Freakier Friday it's more I want to say complicated but convoluted is the word. Anna played by Lindsay Lohan has a daughter of her own at this point. Her mother played by Jamie Lee Curtis lives with them. The wording is a little weird. Jamie Lee Curtis said ever since you decided to become a single mom and I was like you mean got divorced? Ever since you decided she decided to get divorced right? Is divorce problematic language? Now don't take divorce from me it's like half the jokes I know. Anyhow ever since she got divorced or had artificial insemination the movie's not really that clear there are three generations living in this house grandma, mother, daughter. Anna meets a guy who has a daughter of his own now Anna and this guy are gonna get married. That guy aside they all swap consciousness. So when it comes to Anna and her daughter in this movie it's normal Freaky Friday premise they swap. But then Jamie Lee Curtis and the new soon-to-be stepdaughter or step-granddaughter as she pertains to her they swap. And when the movie started out the script just felt odd. I couldn't tell if it was a parody of the paradigm the zeitgeist the world of youth 2025 or if it was a movie directed by Gen X running off of a script written by a millennial to make jokes they think are going to appeal to Gen Z. It does feel more like that at a point in this movie the daughter character who's in Lindsay Lohan's character's body she makes a joke something along the lines of uh what old person wrote these out of touch jokes. Actually thinking about it it Someone said something like that though I'm still paraphrasing. It kind of felt like it was the script pointing at itself I don't think it meant to be. And I gotta say all the swapping around really is confusing. So many times in this movie I was like okay who are they supposed to be who am I actually watching? Now convoluted premise aside I kind of understand why it happened to keep Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan front and center. They're now the minds and souls of the young girls in this situation the daughters the soon-to-be stepsisters. They don't want to be stepsisters so they're trying to ruin the marriage. Could this have been avoided if grandma and mom who look like the stepdaughters just been like look a crazy thing happened and we've all swapped minds don't listen to anything they say. Yes but that's with any Freaky Friday movie. If good communication existed you wouldn't have a movie at all. And it makes sense Jamie Lee Curtis has won an oscar now. Lindsay Lohan's been clean and sober for 10 years 2024 11 years now. Props to her this movie does show if for nothing else I'm totally cool with the Lindsay Lohan resurgence to be honest with you. When the movie does bring the heart you remember like yeah she's talented. The fact that she was a youth working in an industry built to sap your soul like Shang Tsung or some ----. Anyhow she's clearly in a better place in life you love to see it. Her and Jamie Lee Curtis play off of each other really well. It doesn't always make sense in terms of the story. Like mentally they are these soon-to-be stepsisters and the Jamie Lee Curtis character is trying to teach her how to flirt with someone and it's all weird and awkward. It's like well I mean the girl didn't seem like she didn't have game. It almost feels like you're doing ---- for the sake of doing ---- here. Which let's be honest a lot of this movie feels like that. As much as the daughter characters have their quest romantic sabotage the other two characters are kind of just left doing stuff because in order to have Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis front and center you had to swap them with two other people. But that leaves two other people with what to do exactly. Look in the end I am coming at this as a fan of Freaky Friday. The Jodie Foster Freaky Friday. The one I watched when I was young. But the 2003 Freaky Friday did have something to it. It was enjoyable. Freakier Friday has a new writer and new director and you do feel that. It has character appearances and nostalgia but it all is at this point. Every sequel has nostalgia at this point. It's the oil for the machine baby. It's what keeps it running. It does have heart by the end. Not gonna say it doesn't. Absolutely. You have parents and kids bonding learning their lessons. What can I say? I'm kind of a sap for that ----. But with other Freaky Friday movies out there this offer anything in the way of hey you should totally see this movie in theater rather than streaming one of the Freaky Friday movies. I usually say for free subtext if you own the streaming service you don't have to pay an extra charge. That's what I mean. Try to be more careful with my wording. I mean this movie's 20 minutes longer than the 2003 Freaky Friday. With two more people swapping I understand why it's 20 minutes longer. That's not to say it feels justified in 20 minutes longer. But if you're a super fan of the Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday it might be nostalgic for you. If you're gonna check it out I'd say wait for it to come out on streaming which is where it feels like it should have been released in the first place. All right so Freaky-er Friday have you seen it? What did you think about it? What's your favorite version of Freaky Friday? Or any movie where people swap spiritually physically or otherwise? Whatever it is whatever you think comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more click right here to see more.