Mary Rodgers (Daughter of Famed Broadway Composer Rodgers) Hit Paydirt with the 1972 PUBLICATION OF HER BOOK Freaky FridayCertainly A Harbinger of Things to Come in Hollywood’s Obsession with Body-Switch Movies. Although they have been around in one forms or another for decades (imdb lists 168 of say over the years), that book generated a real trend that began with disaptition of it in 1976, with the pairing of jodie foster and barbara falis -falling and be magic. Each other in a mother-doughter swap. The Forms Really Took Hold in 1988 with Movies Like 18 Again, Like Father Like Son, Vice Versa and the Biggest of ‘Em All: Tom Hanks in Big. Jennifer Garner’s Done The Idea Twice with 2004’s 13 going on 30 and 2023’s Family switch. No One Did It Better than Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin in 1984’s Classic All of me, ETC., etc.
But but Freaky Friday franchise is a real go-to thing for disney beginning with that ’76 edition, followed by a 1995 TV Movie with shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann, and a Musical Version in 2018 for the Disney Channel-All Called Freaky Friday. But it was weshaps 2003’s Freaky Friday Reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan Switching Places that made the Biggest Impact and Called for A Sequel Rather than a Remake. To that, the stars have to get older, and that they have done, so 22 years late we have finally have Freakier FridayWhich Amps Up The Action Into A Four-Way Switch with Curtis Now A Grandmother Switch Places with a 15 Year Old, and Lohan Doing the Same with time 15-YEAR-Old Daughter. It is truly a generational epic, but what worked once, twice, three times (and Maybe Four) Still delivers on the premise, providing laughs, plenty of Slapsice ops and genuine emotion thanks to a game. TELL ABOUT IT.
Story-Wise, Its been more than two decades SINCE DAGHTER ANNA (LOHAN) AND MOTHER TESS (CURIS) DID THAT MEMORABLE ONE-DAY SWITCH. TESS COLEMAN IS NOW AN AUTHOR AND Psychologist who has workten a new book. She’s Still Juggling Things Including As Wife to Ryan (Mark Harmon, Returning in An Underwritten Role) a mother to anna and grandmother to 15 -ear-op surfer girl Harper (Julia butters), Who is going the USUAL Angst of Most Girl Conflicts with mom who is now manager to a popstar, ella (maitreyi Ramakrishnan), who is a handful to say the least (but really adds the music to the film). On top of the those headaches, Anna is Still Trying to deal with Harper and Her Problems. Along the Way She Meets Eric Reyes (Manny Jacinto), A Single Parent and Chef Who Ouns a Restaurant. They hook up, but he has a daughter, Also 15, Named Lily (Sophia Hammons), From England, who is hoping to get back to london where she can become a fashion designer one day. She is Opposed to dad’s romance with Anna, but it’s too ‘time. Anna and Eric Are Getting Married with the Compression of Merging Their Families.
Well, this all leads to more mystery and magic we can and anna have a reading from Madame Jen (Snl’s Vanessa Bayer – Very Funny) and that Leads to TESS Switching Up With Lily, and Anna Switching With Harper. Anyone Familiar with the Premise Can Bet Everything Becomes Very Frightening and Very very Complicated, swimming just with Mother and Daughter Switching, but now Also Grandmother and Daughter’s Friend Making the Swap.
Curtis was nominated for a golden globe the first time around, and she just might be again as this seasoned comic pro knows just how to milk every laugh and show genuine horror AS A 15 YEAR OLD DISCOVERING MANY NEW Wrinkles. She’s a Hoot, and Lohan Matches Her Beat for Beat. Of COURSE, LOHAN WASN’T A NEWCOMER to the premise when she switched places with Herself in Disney’s 1998 Raft Remake that made her a star just four years Earlier, but now she adds a welcome layer of maturity in showing we Sometimes Become Our Parents in More than One. With all of the comic hijinks you Expect, there is some genuine human emotion and real gravitas in examinating our lives from the inside out. Give Credit to Director Nisha Ganatra and Screenwriter Jordan Weiss for Taching This Freaky-Out to ANOTHER Level With the Four Way Switch and AttemPing to Keep It from Complete Confusion As to Any Given Time. You have to pay close atTension.
Among the rest of the cast are several returnees from the 2003 film including harmon; Rosalind chao back as mama p; Stephen Tobolowsky As Mr. Bates; And Chad Michael Murray, Flowing Hair and All, Returning As Anna’s Early Crush, Jake. He now runs a record Store (Remember Those?). Of the newComers, jacinto Mails a real impression here as does hammons, who as lily is also dealing with the los of her owner, and the terrific butters, who was good in tarantino’s Once uppon a time in Hollywood and now gets to grow up.
I will have to confess that with all of this body switching and the various subplots weiss has introded, it isn’t always esy to kep track of it, but in the end it off, a feed comedy for the Times as evidented by the lounge at the screening i screening i screening i screen nostalgic disney film that is about as Disney As it gets.
Producers are Kristin Burr, Andrew Gunn and Curtis.
Title: Freakier Friday
Distributor: Disney
Release Date: August 8, 2025
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Screenwriter: Jordan Weiss
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Mark Harmon, Manny Jacinto, Chad Michael Murray, Rosalind Chao, Maitieyi Ramakrishnan, Vanessa Bayer, Stephen Tobolowsky
Rating: Pg
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 51 MINS
