Freakier Friday - Movie Review

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1:32 the fun of the Freaky Friday premise, but there's another one for you. So, in the previous Freaky Friday films, it's a remake of Freaky Friday. The motheraughter 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 Jaime Lee Curtis, lives with them. The wording is a little weird. Jaime 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 divorced

2:17 problematic language? Now, don't take divorced 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 going to 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 Jaime Lee Curtis and the new soon to be stepdaughter or stepg 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

3:04 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 could have been Lindsay Lohan's character in The Daughter's Body. It's someone said something like that, though I'm still paraphrasing. It kind of felt like it was the script pointing at itself, but I don't think it meant to be. And I got to 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 happens. is to keep Jaime Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan front and center. They're now the minds and souls of the young girls in this situation, the

3:50 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. Jaime Lee Curtis has won an Oscar now. Lindsay Lohan's been clean and sober for 10 years in 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 Shangsung or some I

4:35 Anyhow, she's clearly in a better place in life. You love to see it. Her and Jaime 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 Jaime 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 Jaime 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

5:22 Freaky Friday, the Jodie Foster Freaky Friday. It's the one I watched when I was young. But the 2003 Freaky Friday did have something to it. It was still 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 going to 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 didn't really offer anything in the way of, "Hey, you should totally see this movie in theaters." Rather than streaming one of the Freaky Friday movies, I usually

6:07 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 next time. I mean, this movie is 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 being 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 going to 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 Friday, have you seen it? What did you think about it? Or 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.