Freaky Friday (2003)

This movie is a great family movie. Especially for mothers and daughters. It was very entertaining and up to date. I will definitely be watching it again.

An overworked mother and her daughter do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday. The best part of Freaky Friday is probably the perfomances by it's two leads, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan cause once the change really happens and the mother and daughter change bodies the film becomes a whole lotta fun cause if it was good at the beginning? It gets even better as it goes along. Overall a movie that i really much enjoyed that showcases Disney's good times in the movies. (A+)

A funny thing happened on the way to this review.A friend asked me to take a look at The Swap -- this review written in 2016 -- and to be frank it was pretty awful.So I dug up the 1976 version, and also this version, for comparison. and watched them all over again.The results: 1976 version -- has the advantage of being the "original" so you can see the influences. But the casting is odd - Foster never really sells her character -- the script lacks punch and the whole thing runs out of steam quickly.2016 version ("The Swap") -- also a bit odd in that, if Disney is going to keep the franchise going for generations (which is how they do things over there) then why cut back on the budget, especially using lesser known actors and a much weaker writing team?? 2003 version -- this one -- may not be the original technically but it is the original in spirit. This version set the bar and set it high. The casting? To die for. Lohan and Curtis are A-listers and it shows. Unlike the other two, you the viewer do not have to constantly remind yourself that the two stars are playing each other because they are so skilled you know it from their gestures and mannerisms. And the script is a gem. Aside from the entertainment value and the cleverness, there are at least a dozen genuinely funny lines. As in you will laugh out loud ("I look like the Cryptkeeper!).As I said, I am writing this review from the far future, ie, 2016.And at least by that date this is the best of the bunch.

There is such chemistry between Lohan and Curtis that I was sucked into this fantasy lock, stock and barrel. The two divas do not miss a trick when it comes time to convince us that they are indeed the other person trapped in a new body. Curtis winces, sashays, smirks, wails and gasps like a teenager, and Lohan captures every nuance of a beleaguered middle-aged professional struggling to maintain control In a situation that defies her every attempt to cover up one wacky trap after another. She has to let her daughter, who now inhabits her body, represent her as a psychotherapist, both in the office and on a TV talk show to discuss her book. The results are always hilarious, with Curtis acting exactly like a teenager attempting to navigate through session after session with her Mom's nutty patients. Equally wacky are the scenes of Lohan, with her mother's uptight personality trying to fit in as a high school student deflecting the amorous advances of Jake, the daughter's motorcycle-riding stud boyfriend. Underneath all these hijinks is the serious part of this, and every, switch movie, the journey that mother and daughter take that gives each a firsthand understanding of what makes the other tick. I'm a 58-year-old guy, not a fan of most chick flicks, funny or otherwise, but I was crying like a kid when Curtis and Lohan finally "got" each other and reached a point of mutual admiration and love that, unfortunately, seems to be possible only in movies. That's why they make them, why we see them, and why we are grateful when one of them turns out to be a timeless classic, like Freaky Friday.