Freakier Friday (2025)

Some 22 years after a body swapping incident, a mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and daughter (Lindsay Lohan) find themselves in the same predicament when the daughter switches bodies with her daughter (Julia Butters) and the mother switches bodies with the daughter (Sophia Hammons) of her daughter's fiance (Manny Jacinto). Directed by Nisha Ganatra (LATE NIGHT). A sequel to the 2003 FREAKY FRIDAY based on the book by Mary Rodgers, itself the third remake following filmed adaptations from 1976 and 1995. Did we really need a sequel to FREAKY FRIDAY? No! It's just more of the same and isn't it time to put a stop to body swapping comedies if they can't provide anything more than regurgitating stale gags (Does anyone actually find food fights funny? How about driving on the wrong side of the road? I didn't think so). Curtis and Lohan (it was nice seeing her back on the screen) do their best and one can't fault their performances but this once too often trip to the one joke well doesn't do them any favors. I liked the 2003 film (the best of the three versions) but this one is a bungle. But I'm in the minority. The film received good reviews and made money. With Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Vanessa Bayer, Stephen Tobolowsky, Chloe Fineman and Elaine Hendrix.