Freaky Friday

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Mike P So-so sci-fi slapstick from Disney; offering up the (modern generation's) first body swap comedy...with middling results. Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris switch places for a day and learn to better appreciate each other...The acting's ok, I guess; although these are alot of stereotypes...and some of this is cringe and hasn't aged well. The biggest innovation Mary Rodgers; who wrote the book and the screenplay; makes to this version; is the wise choice to have BOTH mother and daughter switch...(In the book the mother just does some witchy Hocus pocus to make Annabelle enter HER body; to assume all HER duties...While she just kind of sits Shiva for the day; learning nothing...So this is better)... So this is ok overall but nothing to write home about...(This is also the beginning of what Jodie Foster describes as her "fat period"; which lasted for about two years...) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/27/24 Full Review Dale R A mother and daughter who don’t see eye to eye, switch places in their lives for a day. Some of the situations that the two find themselves in are over exaggerated for comedic effect. For me this made the movie less engaging, as I felt the real world situations might have been more interesting. Barbara Harris, who plays the mother, and a young Jodie Foster, who plays the daughter, do a good job of playing another character when the two switch bodies. But, they didn’t seem to play each other very well, just a different character. The father, played by John Astin, was a “male chauvinist pig”, but that plot line really didn’t resolve and he got his way most often. Maybe that was social commentary, I’m not sure. I also feel that since this was remade in the 1990’s, that this version is too dated to connect with today’s audience. If it sounds like something up your alley, then check it out. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/07/24 Full Review Jeffrey M Freaky Friday was an okay movie I watched it kind of a long time ago, but maybe if I had watched it sooner, I would have liked it more. Freaky Friday was an interesting movie, but I remember it, like a lot of old Disney movies, was slightly boring. Freaky Friday was an okay movie. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/24 Full Review Zinjx W Way better than the remake with Lindsay Lohan from (2003). 40 years old (looks very young) Barbara Harris is excellent in this movie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/15/23 Full Review Wayne F Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris do a fantastic a great movie for the family Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/03/23 Full Review Taylor L I betcha Jodie Foster wishes she was Lindsay Lohan, huh? Then she would've had a real hit on her hands. Don't wish to switch places with a parent, otherwise terrible visual effects will come for you! The greenscreen is dodgy as hell and the responsibilities of a housewife are amusingly dated, but thanks to some absurdist scenarios and a fun performance from Barbara Harris, Freaky Friday still has a bit of charm to spare. Whether or not the ending resolution is earned - mother and daughter coming together with a new understanding of each other - is a matter of debate, but after the standard little mistakes of not knowing where classes are or adding too much soap to the washing machine, the film gets surprisingly grandiose for the finale. There's a massive car chase scene, a huge jet ski/paragliding routine, and even a shot of a cop car getting split in half by a concrete wall, and it's mostly practical effects. The subplot where Annabel (in her mom's body) gets to talk candidly with her little brother about how much he loves her is very cute, though this film gets to add yet another chapter in the weirdly sexualized childhood of Jodie Foster when her father gets a rise out of hearing her call him 'daddy'. This original adaptation has basically no explanation for the body switch (they just wish simultaneously), but that's better than the remake where they use "strange Asian voodoo" to make the plot happen. (2.5/5) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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