Rated PG
Opens: August 8, 2025
Kevin says FREAKIER FRIDAY kinda sucks!
The latest film to come out of Hollywood’s never-ending reboot engine is Disney’s FREAKIER FRIDAY.
This 20-years-too-late sequel reunites us with Tess and Anna, who magically swapped bodies in 2003. Now, a similar event has happened, bringing along Anna’s daughter and her soon-to-be step-sister.
Most aspects of this film feel terribly forced – from the adults’ inexplicably successful careers to the slapstick pratfalls and reasons leading up to them. And the film clings to clichés while bending over backwards to show the challenging dynamics of the family.
Unfortunately, that first act does nothing but present a cast of truly unlikeable characters.
There is a modicum of sweetness that helps lift the ending in that Disney Channel sort of way. And Jamie Lee Curtis certainly gives it her all to be outrageous. Unfortunately, those things didn’t balance out the rest of its problems.
Maybe the target audience of tween girls will like it, but I’m not a tween girl… last time I checked.
It’s freakier, it’s fridayier, but this FREAKIER FRIDAY left me with a case of the Mondays.
FREAKIER FRIDAY gets two weekdays out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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