'Freakier Friday' review: Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the laughs!
Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis will give you all the nostalgia feels for the Disney reboot.
“Freakier Friday” is a whole family affair! With jokes for kids and adults, audiences will be laughing for the entire 111 minutes. It’s a great story about how important a mother-daughter relationship is and how a grandmother learns not to be overbearing.
Lohan and Curtis have cracked the code for making great sequels. Their strong off-screen relationship is translating onscreen, you’re able to tell the duo has cultivated their relationship for the last 22 years, since the original “Freaky Friday.” The pair have been through a lot together, professionally and personally and they’ve been by each other’s sides through it all!
“Jamie was with me at a time in my life when I was going through a lot publicly. She was privately really there for me,” Lohan recalls of her 66-year-old costar, according to PEOPLE.
In “Freakier Friday,” the two actresses are always paired together for scenes showing the characters' close relationship, as opposed to the original, where they have classic mother-daughter fights and disagreements and are pitted against each other, each trying to prove their point.
Reprising their roles as Anna and Tess, Lohan and Curtis, respectively, the duo switch bodies once again due to a psychic reading from Madame Jen (played by SNL’s Vanessa Bayer). Tess switches with Lily (her future step-granddaughter), and Anna’s body switches bodies with her daughter Harper, causing for a lot of laughs.
Lohan’s Anna is set to marry her dream man, Eric (played by ‘The Good Place’s’ Manny Jacinto), but their daughters aren’t into this plan and do whatever they can to stop their parents’ wedding from happening.
While on this mission, the girls, along with Tess and Anna, get themselves into murky situations, which causes lots of high jinx.
Disney hit the nail on the head when it comes to the nostalgia factor. The fictional band from the movie, Pink Slip, makes their appearance and even performs their classic “Take Me Away,” and fans will also see numerous cameos from the 2003 original movie.
You will see Mark Harmon returning as Ryan, Rosalind Chao as Mama P., Stephen Tobolowsky as Mr. Bates and Chad Michael Murray returns as Anna’s high school crush, Jake.
This film, 22 years in the making, is worth the wait.
“Freakier Friday” hits theaters Friday, August 8.



