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Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: wow
Review: I expected this film to be: OK.
Glad I was wrong. This film was so funny and the plot actually made sense. JAMIE as the daughter was hilarious even though I didn't believe her as much as I believed LINDSAY as the MOTHER> Great acting all the way through. I would love to watch this film everyday.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Freakishly entertaining
Review: Freaky Friday is one of the best family films from Disney. Entertainingly hilarious featuring an Oscar-nominated performance by Jamie Lee Curtis, teen queen Lindsay Lohan is wonderful as a hormonal teenage daughter whose relationship with her perfect mother (Dr. Coleman) is a bitter one. Lohan's performance pushes her past any given by Hilary Duff and is as grown-up as that of Curtis's. It's unanimousally agreed: Freaky Friday rocks!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good comedy !
Review: This movie is really a nice comedy. I wanted to see it because I already knew the story(read it on Hiper Disney many years ago) and because I love Lindsay Lohan since The Parent Trap.
The story is quite good and amusing: Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsey Lohan) switch bodies and are trapped until they realize how difficult each other's life is.
It makes us think that life ain't easy and being someone different not always changes the difficulties.

It's a well achieved picture with great performances by the ever so lovely and beautiful Lindsay Lohan and by the excellent Jamie Lee Curtis.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: so much better than lizzie maguire
Review: This movie is really really good. And its way better than the boring lizzie maguire movie where shes goes to paris to meet a gay pop singer.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOW!
Review: This movie was great. I'm not a big fan of body- switching movies, but I loved this nonetheless. Lindsay Lohan made a sparkling comeback to the big screen, and Jamie Lee Curtis was hilarious. Anna (Lindsay) and Tess (Jamie) are mother and daughter who get along about as well as a cat and a dog. But when a mysterious fortune in a fortune cookie puts them in each other's bodies, they are forced to see that the other's life is not so easy after all. Lindsay Lohan sings the movie's ending song, Ultimate, better than Hilary Duff sings any of her songs. The mishaps that occur while they are switched are hilarious, and both characters show tremendous character growth, both ending up understanding each other much more and having a much better relantionship. A must-see!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Delightfully Entertaining!
Review: The acting, story line, and directing of Freaky Friday just couldn't be any better. Jamie Lee Curtis is charming, smart, and gripping as "Mom" and her daughter, Linsey Lohan is absolutely persuasive in "both" roles!

Mark Harmon is wisely quiet and understated through the movie letting Mom and Daughter bounce off one another with their crisp, witty, dialogue.

This is a fun-filled frolic and perfectly entertaining. Gather the kids and the guys and sit back and let the laughter roll...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Changing Bodies (with Your Daughter): Delightful Family Pic
Review: This is the remake of the 1977 original starring one child star Jodie Foster. Anyone who said remakes stink should reconsider his idea, for the newer "Freaky Friday" is one of the delightful family pictures Disney gave us in this decade.

The body-switching story is simple enough. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an upright and principled psychatrist (and widow) who is busy preparing for the coming marriage, and her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) is a high school student who wants to have a date with a boy, play rock music; in short, she needs a little bit more freedom.

Then, at a Chinese restaurant, they embarrasingly argue in front of the mother's love Ryan (Mark Harmon). And then, the owner of the place offers a pair of fortune cookie, which, believe it or mot, have a magical power to change the roles of mother and daughter. Tess is in Anna's body, and Anna in Tess's.

We know where "Freaky Friday" will lead you eventually, so let's wait for the film to be better and funnier as it goes on. The first 20 minutes may look too banal, following the storyline of typical family pictures (a kid in detention class, mother worrying about her, and so on ...), but that is exactly the point. After their bodies are switched, the things get wild, crazy, and funny ... probably more funnier than you expect.

That is all because of the two great leading ladies -- Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan (the latter played the double roles in "The Parent Trap," another good remake). The way Lee Curtis changes the make-up (in the punk fashion, of course) and takes over the TV show with comic talk is one of the many highlights of the film. With her, Lohan always gives an amusing contrast as a rebellous daughter, then a dutiful one. (The only reason I do not give five stars is Chinese restaurant setting which looks trite to me -- and I didn't want to see Rosalind Chao in this way -- and its slightly weaker supporting actors).

And most of all, what is great about the film is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are not only great talents but also they are having fun doing what they can do. And this fun is very contagious -- the kind of fun we can all share.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Five star remake
Review: I saw this with my mom when it came out and loved it. Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are both so perfect at playing dual roles, first as themselves and then as each other. Jamie is hysterical as a teenage girl, and Lindsay's performance was very cool. The end made me cry! I get so sentimental:) There are lots of funny parts and the music is great, for a fake movie band Pink Slip rocks! Wish I could play guitar like that! Chad Michael Murray, from the Wb's great show One Tree Hill, is the hottie love interest. Mark Harmon does a very nice job as the soon to be stepdad, he's pretty endearing and makes you want to like him. I became a Lindsay Lohan fan after this movie, and I've always liked Jamie Lee Curtis, she was really the standout here. The extra's are good, especially Backstage with Lindsay but the deleted scenes don't amount to much. The bloopers are kinda funny.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Old School Entertainment
Review: After my reluctance wore off, I finally watched this film. I was surprised to find a mildly entertaining return to old parent/child bickering films that I enjoyed during the 80s. Freaky Friday explores the world of teen angst and the stress-filled responsibilities of adulthood equally and effectively places one inside the other. Like an intrusion, teenage Anna and working-mother Tess find themselves magically transferred within one another's body after cracking open two fortune cookies at a Chinese restautant.

The rest is history. The two learn about one another's hectic lives and adapt just long enough to find a way to return to their own bodies and lives. It is also long enough for the two of them to develop an understanding of one another that was much needed long ago.

As I said, this film is a satisfying return to a lost genre. I remember the 80s and the genre of films that captured both a young generation and an older generation, reflecting effectively the gap between the two. Freaky Friday returns to that concept successfully and manages to entertain both generations.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Music!
Review: I personaly loved this CD and the movie. Chirstina Vidal and Lindsay Lohan are great singers! Take Me Away was a great song! They have the best music on this CD especially if you are a rock fan!


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