Review | Freakier Friday movie review: Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite for chaotic sequel
Curtis shines in this enjoyable Freaky Friday sequel with Lindsay Lohan and Julia Butters, but sometimes it’s hard to work out who is who
3/5 stars
Freakier Friday, the somewhat belated, uninhibited sequel to 2003’s body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, reunites Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as the mother and daughter who previously got to experience what it is like to be the other person.
This time, the body-swap madness is multiplied, although bigger does not necessarily mean better. It certainly means more confusion, with viewers frequently left wondering who is who.
Lohan’s Anna is now a single mother herself, to teen daughter Harper (Julia Butters). She is also on the verge of walking down the aisle with Eric (Manny Jacinto), an expat who also has a daughter, Lily, (Sophia Hammons) in the ninth grade with Harper.
Anna and Eric want to move the family to London after the wedding, a plan causing consternation and conflict with their offspring.
Then, after an encounter with a fortune-teller (Vanessa Bayer), the transfer happens again – only this time, bodies are swapped between Anna and Harper, and Anna’s mother Tess (Curtis) and Lily.