Freaky Friday
“There were many more genuine laughs than I was expecting.”
-words mean things guest movie reviewer Nicole Soper
I would agree. Both Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan did well with their body-switching shenanigans. (Lohan already has some experience with Disney remakes; she played the Hayley Mills part(s) in the passable “Parent Trap” remake.) Nik and I did have something of a disagreement about the daughter’s love interest – Nik found him “hot,” while I thought he was just another teenage skank with irritating facial hair. But isn’t diversity of opinion what makes America great?
Bottom line, “Freaky Friday” is much better and more entertaining than any movie that’s already been remade more than once has a right to be. Recommended.
I think a generic european accent would have been a good addition to the uberhunk, though maybe not appropriate for this particular film. I’ll save that for myself.
I do feel as though there were a lot of unresolved issues I would have liked to see wrapped up in a neat Disney package. Maybe FF2 is in the works?
The creepy thing about those kind of movies is I’m always afraid the child-in-body-of-mother will have sex with father-of-child. Ew.
Xkot: There was a stepfather-to-be in this one, but the “almost kissing him but not quite” moments were played for the broadest slapstick possible, to blunt the impact of that.