Lindsay Lohan sequel gives harmless enjoyable

Last 12 months’s musical remake of Mean Girls sparked a re-evaluation of Lindsay Lohan, the Disney star whose private life made her tabloid fodder within the noughties. Now she has reunited with Jamie Lee Curtis to make a sequel to one in every of her greatest hits.

Freaky Friday was a well-known instance of the physique swap comedy, a subgenre involving two individuals
with opposing views magically swapping our bodies and comedically having to manage till they
swap again.

In the 2003 film, Lindsay Lohan performed rebellious excessive schooler Anna, who couldn’t see
eye-to-eye along with her mom Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) till the pair modified our bodies by taking magic
fortune cookies. Anna realized the stresses of Tess’ life, whereas her mom was reminded of the
pressures of rising up, main them to be taught to understand one another extra.

The new movie sees the 2 in a greater place with Anna now an grownup single mum to Harper (Julia
Butters), a youngster struggling along with her college enemy Lily (Sophia Hammons). Tess tries to ease the strain when it’s revealed that Anna is marrying Lily’s father, solely for a similar magic to swap the 2 youngsters with the 2 grownup girls. As they battle to discover a method again, the kids get a style of grownup freedom whereas Anna and Tess rediscover their youth.

There are sequels which have one thing new so as to add, after which there are sequels which are content material with simply bringing the characters again to see what occurs. This is firmly the latter. It’s tough to know what the purpose of this film is aside from some floor stage gags about social media and getting older, however there’s some harmless enjoyable alongside the best way.

Much of that comes from the truth that Curtis and Lohan clearly take pleasure in working collectively, and have a chemistry that offers the movie some coronary heart. Lohan can typically look a bit misplaced, however makes for a strong scene accomplice alongside Curtis, who throws herself into the laughs as a grandmother possessed by an obnoxious youngster.

Jordan Weiss’ script has some callbacks from the primary movie that might be satisfying to devotees, however in the end Freakier Friday is little greater than an excuse to get the band again collectively (actually in a single scene, with the return of the fictional group Pink Slip).

What it lacks in invention it makes up for in spirit, with two leads working onerous to verify followers of the unique gained’t go house disillusioned.

Freakier Friday is in cinemas from 8 August.