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Summary: freakingly amazing
Review: I saw this movie knowing it was a disney movie and not expecting much but after seeing it I was blown away. The movie has everything you could every want in this type of flick. Not only that the acting of both the daughter Anna and Tess are awesome. In the movie when Anna and Tess switched bodies, both actress made you believe they actually had switched bodies, that's how good the acting is. jamie lee curtis stole the show though. It is so funny. I can relate very well to the mother daughter relationship, maybe that's why I liked it so much. What a great movie
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Summary: So Sweet It'll Promote Tooth Decay
Review: Walt Disney has been searching the vaults in order to find suitable family fare for years. This version of Freaky Friday is an updated remake of their own 1977 film.On its face this is the classic body switch movie featuring a harried mother and her rebellious teenage daughter (at least by Disney standards). The roles here are played by Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan. It is the portrayals that make this film. Both principles do a surprisingly good job with the material that they are given. This is by no means a bad film. Actually it has some funny moments. Not Academy Award good but acceptable for both children and adults. Disney seems to be banking on the power of its stars to carry the film and for the most part it succeeds. The DVD presents the film in both full and widescreen versions with a 5.1 Dolby soundtrack. If there is a flaw with the disc it is in the area of bonus materials but Disney was probably thinking that its taget audience would not really be interested in these materials anyway. Get this film for its family oriented nature you may be surprised to find yourself chuckling along.
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Summary: Surprisingly urban Disney movie
Review: "Freaky Friday", a remake of a 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, was on my list of movies to avoid when it came out in the summer of 2003 - too cute, too predictable, too formula, etc. As it turns out, though, it's rather good and often quite funny, thanks in large part to Jamie Lee Curtis' over-the-top performance and to Mark L. Waters' fairly sophisticated direction. Its target audience is girls aged ten to sixteen, but it is a movie adults can also enjoy. This is the story of Tess [Curtis] and her teen daughter, Annabell [Lindsay Lohman]. Tess is about to remarry and Annabell is in the rebellious stage. The tension between the two, as well as between Annabell and her kid brother, seems rather typical. One night at a Chinese restaurant an old woman casts a spell on mother and daughter. The next morning each wakes up in the other's body. They spend a 'freaky' - and hilarious - Friday, each experiencing what life is like for the other. Tess has to go to Annabell's high school, and Annabell must go off to her mother's office. Each must put up with the other one's boy friend. Kid brother, of course, doesn't know which end is up. Like most movies of its type, "Freaky Friday" sometimes runs perilously close to the schmaltzy and the sentimental, but each time it does, a funny line or physical action pulls it back from the edge. Again, much of this is due to Ms. Curtis, who is one of our funniest, cleverest, and most underrated actresses. I doubt we'll be seeing her name on Oscar's list of Best Actress nominees, and that's a pity. She is one classy actress.
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Summary: Dumb plot
Review: This movie has nothing going for it at all. It is not funny, dramatic, action, it just has nothing. Tries to be funny and the plot has been used many times before. The ending wasn't good and neither was any part of this movie. My favorite part of this movie was the credits because then I got to leave.
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Summary: Freaky Friday
Review: I loved this movie. There are only a few movies that I can sit and watch over and over again, and this was one of them!
The movie was very realistic (until they switched places). I know this, because I'm also a teenager, and I kinda act like Anna too (and I completely understand her!).
I thought the Freaky Friday was very funny, too. When I was watching it the time just flew by.
I'd tell about one of my favorite parts in it, but there are just to many.
In conclution, the movie is very enjoyable, for the whole family (and the acting is great, too)!
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Summary: Walking A Mile In Each Other's Shoes
Review: This is the third adaption of the "Freaky Friday" book by author Mary Rogers. The first with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris in 1977, and the second was a TV movie in the mid 90's with Shelley Long. This new adaption, I have to say, blows the other two out of the water. I went into this film knowing that it will probably be a nice little movie(which it is)and will probably think nothing more of it while and after I watched it. I am happy to say that I am wrong in that case. This Disney released film is a joy and a delight from the first frame to the very last. I credit the screenwriters and director Mark Waters for delivering a breezy, witty, lighthearted, lift me up romp that is sure to please and satisfy everyone looking for a nice family for everyone to watch. The film is about The Coleman family. Mom is Tess Coleman(Jamie Lee Curtis), a widowed psychiatrist trying to maintain a job, a home, and raising her two kids. Son Harry, and her 15 year old daughter Anna(Lindsay Lohan). What we soon come to learn is what we have already expected. Mom and daughter not getting along for all the usual reasons. It's the constant battle between young and adult, kids and parents. Anna is a rebel type who is in a rock band that plays in the garage, gets into trouble at school, and feels like everyone is against her. Mom Tess is just trying to keep things together after their father passed away 3 three years before. Tess is engaged to nice guy Ryan(Mark Harmon), and the wedding is in 2 days or so. After a dinner at a chinese restaraunt where Tess and Anna get into a fight, a chinese woman gives them a magical fortune cookie that makes the two change bodies. They wake up the next morning in each other's body's, and the fun really begins. Each try to be the other - Anna, in Tess' body, tries to do her mom's job and to keep up appearances with Ryan. Tess, in Anna's body, tries to go to school in Anna's place. Each learns a lesson while being each other and it's a lesson we have come to all know. It's not easy being a teenaged girl when you are going through changes, falling for boys for the first time, and thinking that nobody, especially your parents, don't understand you. And it's not easy being a single parent with a teenaged girl having to deal with her issues as well as your own and caring for the well being of your family and keeping the house standing. It's something we have seen countless times in movies and TV shows, but it really works here. The main reason for that are because of the wonderful performances by Jamie Lee and Lindsay. I have always been a fan of Jamie Lee's, but even more so now. She delivers a great performance that gets to showcase how good she is at comedy and at physical comedy. She has the moody,snotty teenager thing down pat. You can tell she is having a blast doing it, and it comes thru in the performance and enhances it even more. The performance from young Lohan is equally engaging. She was much better when she was acting as her mom than she was when she was herself. Playing her mom, she had a real knack for giving out a parental demeanor and it was strong and even endearing in some of her actions and mannerisms. The success and every winning aspect of this film is because of these two actresses. Mark Harmon has a pretty typical role, but it's nice to see him in a movie again. Chad Michael Murray, who is quickly becoming the new heartthrob for young girls around the world thanks to this movie and his series "One Tree Hill", is Jake. The token "potential boyfriend" that gets into the mix. Like Harmon, it's a pretty by the numbers type of character, but he does what he does. While it is so easy to dismiss a film like this for being light and fluffy, this one has better odds of making a longer impact than others because of it's sweetness and because of the appealing performances from Curtis and Lohan. I enjoyed this film a lot and it is just about as perfect as a nice family film can possibly be. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Summary: Freaking Good
Review: For adults looking for a good comedy, don't let the "Walt Disney" name fool you. It is not just for kids. Although most kids over the age of 10 probably would enjoy this as well. This movie is a lot of fun to watch, and is the best of all past "Freaky Friday movies" or movies with the similar premise. Jamie Lee Curtis is wonderful, and I do not think I have seen her play a better role. Lindsay Lohan (the daugthter, Anna) also plays her role superb. Everything in this movie seems to click, and the laughs are not forced. Watch this movie with an opened mind, and you may find yourself enjoying the movie as much as I did. :)
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Summary: Freakout!
Review: Jamie Lee Curtis, and Lindsay Lohan are back, just not all themselves in this ingenius film about not jugding people until you walk a mile in their shoes, no pun intended.
Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) don't exactly understand each other as Daughter and Mom. Anna in a Rock band, and Tess a pshyciatrist with the strangest patients, they're as different as night and day. A chinese lady from a restaurant they visit frequently can see that too. Not only is she mad about this, but she's mad that they won't let the restaurant cater. So, in the hopes their views on each others lives will change, she gives them a magical fortune cookie which makes them switch places after a freak earthquake which no one else felt. As the two finally get the picture that they're stuck inside each other until further notice, they try to go through each others lives. Sounds pretty simple right? As the two try to get through each others day, they finally realize that their lives aren't as easy as they thought they were. With Tess getting married to her fiance Ryan (Mark Harmon) in less then 24 hours, maybe it would have just been easier to stay home and figured out a way to switch back.
Much more better then the original. You finally got the idea that the two had actually switched places this time. The two main actresses were great to have been able to convince the audience that way while still being able to make them laugh. An instant 5 stars for the whole family to enjoy.
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Summary: A Good Rental, Nothing More...
Review: 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, well 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, as far as I'm concerned, 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 suddently 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 meangingful. 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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Summary: Really Good!
Review: Title: Freaky Friday
Production: Walt Disney Studios, GUNN films
Date: 2003
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG (mild events and some language) This movie is humorously entertaining. "Freaky Friday" is about a 15-year-old girl named Anna and her mom, Tess, who don't get a long. One night they go out to dinner for Chinese and a magic fortune cookie switches their bodies. Imagine if YOU and YOUR MOM switched places...AHHHHH! Exactly. That is what this movie is about. I reccommend all moms to see it with your daughter, and vice-versa. If I could give this movie a billion stars, I would!
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