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Amazon.co.uk Review

In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her fortysomething psychiatrist mum Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as her befuddled fiancé (Mark Harmon), who doesn't understand why his bride-to-be is suddenly recoiling from his embrace on the eve of their wedding. Both Lohan and Curtis turn in deft, delightful performances, with Curtis showing a surprising flair for physical comedy. The movie even manages to explore serious issues about fractured families, new parents and adolescent sexuality with honesty and empathy--and without making the story stop dead in its tracks. This 2003 remake of the 1977 original is a mother-daughter film that fathers and sons can enjoy just as much. --Bret Fetzer


A Good Rental, Nothing More
Review date: 2008-09-28 Rating: 4 out of 10

I normally don't go for Disney family movies like this, but I'm a sucker for a good switching places gimmick. Basically, the plot revolves around Jamie Lee Curtis (the single mom) and Lindsay Lohan (the stereotypically rebellious teenaged daughter) switching bodies for a day after eating some magical fortune cookies. No joke, that's the cause of it. I expected to leave a certain amount of my brain at the door when watching this, so I didn't let this affect my outlook on the rest of the movie. The film's biggest downfall is that the mom and daughter, after switching bodies, don't really encounter any major problems that the average family can relate to. I mean, the mother comes from an upper-middleclass background and makes $70 an hour as a Psychiatrist. So the biggest problem that arises for the daughter after switching bodies is having to listen to people's problems for several hours, oh and having to promote her mom's book on TV. Both of which, incidentally, she manages to do better than her mother!

As for the daughter's problems...a teacher is out to make her life miserable because her mother refused to go to the Prom with him in highschool, and she needs to make it to this contest so that she and her friends who are in a band can reach superstardom. What mom and daughter wouldn't be able to relate to this?! A lot of wasted potential here that causes the film to lack any real emotional substance. Speaking of wasted potential, Mark Harmon's plays the completely bland and boring fiancee of Jamie Lee Curtis who seems to be oblivious to everything. This guy never loses his temper, always knows the right things to say, and never questions the mother and daughter's odd behavior! Did this guy switch bodies with the Pope or what?!? I won't even get started with the teenaged love interest of the daughter who is suddenly smitten by the mother (who's really the daughter) after a casual luncheon. If that's hard to swallow, imagine watching it.

Despite these negatives, I did enjoy the acting performances of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis after they switched bodies. There was never a moment when I was not convinced that they really were in each other's bodies. Also, some of the insights that each learn after the switch are enjoyable to see, but as I stated earlier, they really should have been deeper and more meaningful. I'm sure preteens and some housewives might get a kick out of this, but I don't think that the average viewer will get involved in this candy-coated film where nothing bad happens and everybody lives happily ever after. But if you do like I did and keep reminding yourself that this is a Disney family movie, you should be able to gain pleasure out of it for a couple of viewings.

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A great girly comedy!
Review date: 2008-09-11 Rating: 8 out of 10

I think most girls between 8-12 will love this film!
I first saw it at a friends house then bought it the next day!
The music is great too!

I love this film
Review date: 2008-07-31 Rating: 10 out of 10

I love this film. For the second time I have preferred the remake to the original and both featured LL. I could never stomach the actress who played the mom in the first film or Jodie Foster.

I can watch this version time after time and still laugh and cry especially at the pre-wedding dinner when Anna realises what a nice guy her future step father is and makes a speech welcoming him to the family and commenting that it is good to hear her mom singing in the shower again.

As a staunch LL fan, I cannot say enough about her acting skills.

In this film her timing is perfection and with Jamie Lee Curtis they make a great comedic duo with great on screen chemistry. Quote: (Anna in Mom's body) Oh my god, I've been visited by the crypt keeper.

I can thoroughly recommend this as a fantastic mom and daughter film to watch together, but don't forget the tissues.

I love it.


An Absolute Gem
Review date: 2008-07-24 Rating: 8 out of 10

There is only one thing more satisfying than watching a greatly lauded film live up to expectation. And that is watching a should-be-pants remake surpass all expectation in a clever and stylish manner. Freaky Friday is such a film.

Well made, very well written and containing two of the finest female comedy performances on film (Jamie Lee Curtis is absolutely outstanding), Freaky Friday is proof positive that where there's class there's quality. And it manages to make un-patronising, salient points about families in the process. It works on all the levels it's meant to and exceeds in every department. Shame really - but one day, not too far away, Lynsey Lohan will look back on this as her finest hour.

Swtching lives, Switching bodies and ...everthing!!!!!!!
Review date: 2008-04-12 Rating: 10 out of 10

Freaky Friday is the perfect sleepover, friday... weekend movie and for the whole family.
I personly think this is just one of Linsays best movies a part from the "Parent Trap" and everyone esle is just superb too.
The film is about a angry teenager who is just fed up, and she and her friends have their their own rock band toether. One night at the Japan resturant they are just in teh middle of an argument where they each fall into the trap of eating the forune cookie and then that night they each swap bodies and they have to live each others life. That is really weird and strange. Oh yeah!!!!! They both have to work together to try and make the forune came ture and they do. From then on their relationship is much closer and like old times they are best friends with many new changes.
Everybody is great and I really admire this movie and I watch it often.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Jodie Foster
Jamie Lee Curtis
Mark Harmon
Barbara Harris
Lindsay Lohan

Creators:
Jamie Lee Curtis (Primary Contributor)
Lindsay Lohan (Primary Contributor)
Andrew Gunn (Producer)
Ann Marie Sanderlin (Producer)
Mario Iscovich (Producer)
Heather Hach (Writer)
Leslie Dixon (Writer)
Mary Rodgers (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
EAN: 0786936242508
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2004-06-01
Universal product code (UPC): 786936242508
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 195 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1977-01-21
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Dubbed)

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