A body swap comedy, if it really cooks, is based on a device that does not quit. An actor, generally an adult, pretends to be inhabited by someone who completely differs as himself (generally a child). The comedy that arises see the person hidden inside. In “Big”, the “Citizen Kane” of the genre, Tom Hanke not only Appeals the gestures and the aura with great eyes of a eager 13-year-old. He seemed to enter the child's soul, a performance of the acting at a time and enchanted. Jennifer Garner did in “13 Going on 30” (one of the most inspired comedies of the 2000s) and Jamie Lee Curtis did in 2003 to the 2003 remake of “Freaky Friday” – just like Lindsay Lohan.
“Freakier Friday” doubles body exchange – and theoretically the comedy complications. Lohan Anna is now a single mother with a daughter of teenage, Harper (Julia Butters, this breakout girl from “Once in Hollywood”). Anna Eric (Manny Jacinto), a sexy widower from London, meets Harper's High School with her own daughter: Lily (Sophia Hammons), who is a common girl Fashionista. You and Harper are not exactly quick friends. But when Anna and Eric are engaged, the two girls suddenly stand with the prospect of becoming steps sisters.
This looks like it could develop from hell to a family. Therefore, the only thing it can save can, a two-stage body exchange that the director of the film, Nisha Ganatra (“Late Night”), without much imagination (“lat Night”) (“Late Night”), all of this on a Daffy Psychic, played on Vanessa Bayer, behind a Soda machine). As soon as the magic happens, Anna and Harper have changed places: a mother-daughter exchange that repeats the one in the first film. But the ante is a second exchange: Lily, the common girl, ends up in the body of Jamie Lee Curtis' tess, who is Harpers Grandma (but practically her second parents), while Tess is taken over by the abrasive Brit-Nob Spitfire Lily.
The stage is for an even wilder comedy as a “freaky friday”. But somehow it doesn't happen. We long to see that the overformative magic, the overwhelming original comedy of an actor who plays a figure, literally channeled someone. We want feel This body swap voltage. But in “Freakier Friday” this takes place in a strangely limited way and for reasons.
It is not an insult to Lindsay Lohan to say that she has retained a girlish aura. This is part of her thousand -year -old attraction. While Julia Butterters, who plays her daughter, plays with the prefabricated heating with the prefabricated pre -clinberability of a zoomer who has found everything out (at least in her head). The result is that these two as a personality, are not that far apart from each other. So when they turn into each other, there is actually very little comic -frisson.
Another problem is the second exchange. Lily, as played by Sophia Hammons, has a distinctive, downbeat-British personality; Some of them are their accent, part of their legitimate title. But we want to see that in Jamie Lee Curtis. And vice versa: Tess would be the perfect internal film for Lily's external external with her spiky but cozy grandmother -Aura.
Here is what happens instead: Lily always speaks in her British accent after the exchange of body (is the film that accents are somehow part of a person physically form?); She seems to be the same person she was before. If Curtis could have used this accent as part of her performance, it would have been much funnier, but instead she was played as a fountain of the generic, roast attitude that merges with Tess' own older frying. The conclusion is that none of these characters seem to be different from themselves after the exchange so that the comedy can detonate.
Nevertheless, the double exchange gives a “freakier Friday” a quality that has a juggling ball quality in the air that gives a pleasant sum. It is fun to drive the film's complications. For his own logic, it follows just enough to create an observable Disney landscape. And there are a few scattered moments when the laugh can free himself: Lohan, as Harper, who tries to flirt with the man she thinks of her mother's secret friend or welcomes Anna's assistant with a happy greeting “Hello, employees of people I see all the time!” Curtis' Lily purchase for old products in a drugstore.
The film is quite touching. It's just about how Harper and Lily try to break and determine her parents' commitment and determine that they really want to be sisters, and it is about how Harper learns that her mother was looking for her in a way that she had no idea. Anna, the former director of the rock band Pink Slip, is now the manager of Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a global pop star, but she writes songs on The Sly. And Harper's longing is needed to bring all of this to the surface. “Freater Friday” rates as a distorted fairy tale in the Disney family. It just does not score as a RUNING RUBE Goldberg-Personality Transplant comedy.