Freakier Friday star Jamie Lee Curtis has referred to as out a “harsh” unfavourable assessment of the brand new sequel.
“Freakier Friday is humiliating to everybody concerned,” reads the headline of Time Journal’s assessment of the film, which the publication shared on Instagram. “Nobody, so far as we all know, really requested Disney for a sequel to 2003’s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy Freaky Friday,” the submit continues.
“SEEMS a TAD HARSH,” Curtis commented. “SOME individuals LOVE it. Me being one.”
Curtis reprises her position as Tess Coleman within the film, a therapist and the mom of Lindsey Lohan’s Anna. Within the authentic movie, the pair, who’ve a troublesome relationship, swap our bodies after studying a cryptic fortune cookie message and may solely revert again to regular as soon as they act selflessly in direction of one another.
Within the sequel, over 20 years have handed and Anna is now not a rebellious teenager. In reality, she has her personal rebellious daughter, Harper (Julia Butters) and a soon-to-be-step-daughter, Harper’s rival classmate Lily (Sophia Hammons).
With the brand new, youthful technology adamant that their households should not merge and Tess and Anna struggling to see their perspective, the Coleman household finds themselves in a four-way physique swap.
Typically, the film has been fairly well-received. It has a critics’ rating of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, primarily based on 166 critiques, and an viewers rating of 93%. The forged additionally contains Manny Jacinto, Chad Michael Murray, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
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