Freaky Friday 2 – Still in my mother’s shoes: a disappointing suite (critic)

After the pleasure of finding Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, this endless comedy is unable to renew itself compared to the 2003 film

At the start, there is a novel, Freaky Friday, signed Mary Rodgers in 1972. And if Gerry Nelson was the first to wear it on the big screen four years later with a crazy Friday, crazy, crazy and the Duo Barbara Harris-Jedie Foster featured, the version that remains in the lead today that of 2003, made by Mark Waters (a year before her summit). With Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as a daughter and mother to the stormy relations that are propelled each in the body – and therefore life – on the other, after having ingested Chinese Cookies fortune with evil effects.

With more than $ 160 million in recipes around the world, the film had made a box and the time acting on our memories, the memory that we have today of this comedy has necessarily embellished the opinion that we had on it when it was released. Nostalgia, when you hold us! And, by ricochet, we were therefore intrigued and impatient to find Jamie Lee Curtis and even more Lindsay Lohan- who crossed more downs than ups in these two decades- for this suite with a total renewal side (Jordan Weiss instead of the Duo Heather Dach- leslie Dixon) and realization (exit Mark Waters, place in Nisha Ganatra Late Night with Emma Thompson and the voice of success with Dakota Johnson)

So we do not sulk our pleasure in the first minutes to see the two actresses find their characters, Anna and her mother Tess with appearance peaceful relationships. Anna became a mother in turn. She has a daughter Harper (Julia Butters, the brilliant interpreter of the young prodigy actress facing Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) and is about to marry Eric, a widowed restaurateur who left London to settle in the United States with her daughter Lily. Except that Harper, the ultra-cool surfer and Lily, the very snobbish British at the forefront of fashion hate each other and see each other with a very bad eye. Until the day when the curse that had struck Anna and Tess hit them in turn. And here is Harper propelled in the skin of his mother Anna, Lily in that of Tess… and vice versa!

The real kick -off is then given and with 110 minutes announced to the clock, we imagine a crowd of twists and turns with this concept, so as not to stutter with the first part and more broadly all the Body Swap films that have been able to tumble on the screens since. Spoiler: it will not be. Freaky Friday 2 is satisfied with her first at her last minute to surf on the wave of the first film, over situations that we all see coming in advance and whose desired effect – whether comical or moving – is irretrievably. However, there was material on paper. We watched for example how the scenario was going to extract from the breaking scenes with more than malaid potential where Eric, believing to kiss Tess finds himself without knowing it to flirt with his future Belle-girl. And we were enjoying the way Freaky Friday 2 was going to kiss the new post #MeToo love codes which we know often the generations between mother and daughter. But of all this, we will see nothing. In the name of the queen lightness, we intend to stay here in the register of first degree entertainment, without taking a risk, without making a wave, to the last straight line dripping with good feelings which arises from this bias. All without even succeeding as the recent and yet unequal, remember- last summer to play maliciously with the references and memories of the original film. So that once out of the room, we do not remember any striking scene and that we enrage for this point the duo Lindsay Lohan- Ja Japi private of crisp things to put in the tooth (even the final storage, over the credits, sounds false). This long boredom tunnel (1h51 for that, seriously?) Recalls the difficulty of making light, spicy and deep comedies at the same time when we talk about adolescence, the Easy Girl by Will Gluck, for example. A disappointment.

By Nisha Ganatra. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters… Duration: 1h51. Released on August 6, 2025