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Movie Reviews of Freaky Friday
Movie Review: "Freaky" Fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me just start by saying that Disney's remake of "Freaky Friday" is a lot of fun. I enjoyed watching this umpteenth hundred take on the "parent-child-switch-body-because-you-don't-understand-my-life-at-all" concept. What makes this film really work is the very impressive performances. I will start with Lindsay Lohan, who I think convincingly embodies the parent role (the scene that shows her admonishing her "friends," while also pulling down the blouse of one of the girls is hilarious!) while also expressing the angst of a young girl quite well.But the real joy and surprise of this film is the incredible performance of Jamie Lee Curtis. I wholeheartedly agree with the many critics who are saying that this work deserves consideration by the Academy. This is a performance worthy of at least an Oscar nod!! Hold your lunch and your complaints skeptics and naysayers for just a second. So often we equate good performances with dramatic scenes and histrionics. Comedy is difficult--as many an actor has said, and physical comedy is even more difficult. Curtis pulls this off with style, grace and comedic elan. I truly believed she was a teenager! As an example, watch the scene with Chad Michael Murray at the diner/hangout when they are discussing music--watch Curtis' body language. This is good work people!! I hope the Academy sees the value of this work just as they did Tom Hanks' in "Big."
She truly deserves to be among the five nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. The five stars I rate this film are chiefly a result of Curtis' superb work.
Rent/buy this film--you will not be disappointed!
Movie Review: When the cookie crumbles
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most entertaining comedies I have seen in a long time. I started smiling from the start up tune "Happy Together" by the Turtles and didn't stop until long after Simple Plan finished their version at the end.
Jamie Lee Curtis is absolutely brilliant as Tess Coleman, a harried psychiatrist with two children, about to remarry after the death of her husband. Lindsay Lohan plays her daughter Anna, a rebellious teenager who can't see eye to eye with her mother.
Comparing the Lindsay Lohan of this movie with the wafer thin girl she has become, it should be noted that she looked so much prettier, happier and healthier then, that I wish she'd look back at this movie and go out and eat something.
You already know that this is a "switch" movie, and thanks to Lucille Soong as an interfering old woman, the switch is done with the crisp snap of a fortune cookie. Both Curtis and Lohan handle the change in their characters admirably, and soon both Tess and Anna get a first hand understanding of each other's rather complicated lives.
Mark Harmon has a supporting role as Tess' fiancé Ryan, and Chad Michael Murray plays Anna's love interest Jake, but this movie is all about the female leads as they get a new perspective, earn each other's respect and generally change each other, while at the same time delivering the laughs.
Tess and Anna switch
Fortune cookie lets them be
"Happy Together"
Amanda Richards, July 25, 2005
Movie Review: Best Movie Ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie, the actors, the story, the directing, everything was so well put together! I love the soundtrack, it has all the best up-coming bands and singers! Lindsay Lohan gives a great performance as she goes from the angry teenager to a busy mother that has to much on her plate! Jamie Lee Curtis does a wonderful job going from a "understanding" mother to a daughter that has problems with school and the band that the daughter is a member of, called "pink slip".Jamie Lee Curtis plays Tess, a psychiatrist who is planning her wedding that is coming in a couple days while she trys to undertand what is bothering her daughter, Anna, played by Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohans character Anna is having a tough time getting threw school without getting to trouble from either a girl that used to be one of Anna's best friends or one of her teachers. But after Anna and Tess go to a asian resturant, with Tess' father, fiance, and her son, everything changes. It all starts with a fight about Anna's band having an audition that same night has the rehersal dinner, then the fortune cookie curse, and the strange earthquake that only Anna and Tess felt, and wake up the next morning in the other's body, everything changes, and they start to understand each other!
I recremend this movie to mothers and daughter's that want to get to now each other better and spend some time together! I also recremend the soundtrack to this movie becuase it has great songs to dance to, sing to, or to just sit and listen to!
Movie Review: Best Movie I've seen in ages...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was so awesome! It's about Anna Coleman, a 15-year-old tomboyish rock-chick (played to perfection by Parent Trap's LINDSAY LOHAN) and her psychatris mother Tess (came to life by JAMIE LEE-CURTIS) who hate each other. Anna wants to play in her rock band "Pink Slip" and her mother is getting all tight with her boyfriend and soon to husband. Then one day, Anna and Tess have the same mysterious Fortune in their fortune cookies and switch bodies! And they thought living each other's lives were easy - they thought wrong!
But with Tess's wedding coming up, and Anna's big chance audition with her band, and doing it in EACH OTHER'S bodies, anything can happen!
This is the craziest and best comedy ever, it's got sweet romance and lot's of laughs, and fab acting by Lindsay and Jamie.
If Lindsay Lohan was replaced by Hilary Duff (with Hilary's Britney Spears style singer instead of the awesome "Pink Slip") this movie would totally flop. Lindsay has got a rock-chick sound and an awesome voice that sings, while Hilary is just a lip-sync Barbie Doll. "Ultimate" is a fab pop/rock number that would smash the charts, and Hilary's "So Yesterday" really is So Yesterday...
This is one of the best movies ever, I can totally relate to Anna...guys, detention, electric guitar, Emily Strange posters, annoying brother...yup, we have tons in common.
This is sooo much better then The Parent Trap, or any other film. I hope Lindsay will be back on the silver screen and music industry very soon...I can't wait!
Movie Review: Fantastic movie! Lindsay ROCKS! Fun for everyone!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have quite a story with the very first time I had watched this movie. It was the first night of school in my senior year of high school. I said to myself, "Hmm...I would like to go see a movie tonite!" I looked at what was playing and nothing really caught my eye. So, I said to myself, "Oh, I guess I will just go see 'Freaky Friday'!" I had no clue whatsoever about what the movie was about. I didn't really have too high of expectations for this movie. I went in and took my seat. After the movie was over, I found myself saying "WOW! That was a good movie!" The music was great and well suited for the movie and the acting was superb. I decided to return to the movies again the next night.
The next night, I had an even greater reaction to this movie. From that moment on, I knew that this movie was going to become one of my all-time favorite movies. I returned to the movies one last time a week later to enjoy this film for the third time on my 18th birthday. I honestly can't think of any better way I would have liked to spend my 18th birthday rather than in that theater watching "Freaky Friday".
To all of you who don't own this movie and have seen it, (with a quote from one of Lindsay's songs in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"), "What are you waiting for?" And, to everyone who hasn't seen this movie, "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" I give a 100% gurantee on this movie that you shall never be disappointed with this fantastic movie!