Freakier Friday (2025)
Directed by Nisha Ganatra
Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover lightning might indeed strike twice.
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A scene in which Harper and Lily come to understand one another while inhabiting each other’s bodies is as heartfelt as anything in the original.
Based on Mary Rodgers’ book and the classic 1976 adaptation starring Jodie Foster, Freaky Friday saw Lohan’s teen rocker Anna swapping bodies with her disapproving single mom, Tess, played by Curtis.
Where a lot of stories aim to say that mothers and daughters are more alike than they are different, Freaky Friday (2003), and even more in Freakier Friday, we see the differences highlighted and respected.
The story picks up over two decades after the original, with Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) now a successful music producer and single mom raising her teenage daughter, Harper (Julia Butters).
…the 2003 film was a remake of the 1976 Barbara Harris/Jodie Foster starrer…
The novel, indirectly or directly, has been the basis for the body swap genre that includes movies like "Big" with Tom Hanks, "The Change Up" starring Ryan Reynolds, and the original 1976 "Freaky Friday" starring a young Jodie Foster.
…better than such recent Disney IP revivals as Hocus Pocus 2…
It feels like something that should have gone directly to Disney+ much like Hocus Pocus 2…
Think Hocus Pocus 2, for example, which found its way to streaming a few years ago and has already been forgotten.
So you get Hocus Pocus 2 a couple of years ago, and now there’s Freakier Friday.
Within 2025 alone we are being offered revivals of 28 Years Later, Tron, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Final Destination.
Better reviewed but darker titles like Thunderbolts* and 28 Years Later have struggled.
Growing up, I spent Wednesdays watching my favorite movie, Nancy Meyers’ The Parent Trap (1998), with my grandmother…
This time, it’s no different, only with some added bickering teens who are hoping to break their parents up (in a sort of reverse Parent Trap).
…starring in the remake of “The Parent Trap” (1998), which this film borrows from shamelessly…
…the unexpected cameo from Elaine Hendrix is a delightful wink to fans who grew up with "The Parent Trap"…
Two of her biggest roles involved twisted layers of characterization, with The Parent Trap having her play twins impersonating each other…
The real cherry on top? Elaine Hendrix as an eccentric magazine editor, offering up a The Parent Trap reunion to make the hearts of ’90s kids flutter.
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…made me feel even older than I did watching the new I Know What You Did Last Summer…
This sequel also makes the exact same mistake that the recent horror movie reboot I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER did by assuming we remember all the characters and bits that were introduced decades ago.
…it is low hanging fruit and is like a “Saturday Night Live” skit that goes on for far too long…
Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live)…
Madame Jen (SNL’s Vanessa Bayer)…
Within 2025 alone we are being offered revivals of 28 Years Later, Tron, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Final Destination.
Within 2025 alone we are being offered revivals of 28 Years Later, Tron, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Final Destination.
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…this Gen Alpha leads her through a dress-up montage akin to a cut scene from 13 Going On 30.
…the teenagers dress like Hannah Montana-does-Project Runway…