Directed by: Nisha Ganatra
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Manny Jacinto, Mark Harmon, Sophia Hammons
I didn't see Freaky Friday which featured Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan switching bodies on the Friday before Curtis' wedding, and that version was a remake of the 1976 Disney comedy featuring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris living for a spell in each other's shoes and bodies. I don't need to see the other versions to gain a full understanding of the complexities of Freakier Friday, in which Curtis and Lohan switch bodies with Lohan's daughter and Lohan's soon-to-be stepdaughter. That's four bodies with switched bodies personalities and souls. You could double it to make it eight and the law of diminishing returns would still take effect. Four people doesn't make it any more funny.
Lohan's Anna is days from getting married to a kind, sensitive chef (Jacinto). Their respective daughters (Butters and Hammons), however, do not get along and fight the marriage every step of the way. After each of the women meets up with a psychic at Anna's bachelorette party, their personalities switch into the new bodies and the high jinks ensue with one unfunny situation melding into another as the wedding is thrown into peril. The actors are game and expend the required energy to try and make this work, but it's all for naught.
So, do the people all learn empathy for each other and forgive each other? Does Anna, who shelved her own singing career to manage another teen singer, get a chance to perform one of the songs she wrote on stage in a supposedly stirring finale? Is the wedding saved? Do we even care? For those who are keeping score, that's three years and a no.
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