Freaky Friday is the most successful project of director Mark S. Waters, along with the more serious “Between Heaven and Earth” and “Mean Girls”. These three films can be put on a par with the samples of great youth comedies, which are not at all harmed by the numerous shades of light melodrama. All of them are distinguished by a positive state of affairs, an excellent cast and production in general. Just here one feels a certain style of the director, even if the specificity of the genre does not make him remember his name along with the most skilled directors of Hollywood.
If you want to laugh not at vulgar jokes and themes of sexual maturity of American schoolchildren / students, but at more important situations, which are slightly embellished with pretty fiction, this movie is just right. Recall another disagreement between parents and children, which most often occur due to a misunderstanding or an ordinary unwillingness to feel in the place of another person. Freaky Friday offers a radical look, swapping the highly advanced mom with her 15-year-old daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis with Lindsay Lohan). And then all sorts of consequences of such an unexpected replacement, associated with age and habits, and yes even male attention.
This film is perhaps the best of all modern comedies / melodramas, in which the same idea is all about sharing age, sex, returning to childhood, and so on (for example, “Boy in a Girl”, “Chick”, “From 13 to 30” , "Daddy is 17 again"). In Freaky Friday, almost a perfect balance of all components, even a couple of moments with clearly sexual overtones are perceived in this case as a successful joke. At the same time, the cinema does not work for the whole family viewing, but it is not included in the standard youth comedy category either. And with Jamie Lee Curtis, there was no better movie after the already distant "True Lie". For Lindsay Lohan there is also an excellent role, after which she managed to make an impression only in a couple of not so successful comedies.
In general, Freaky Friday is one of those comedies that is worth seeing anyway, unless there is a particular dislike for this genre. For 1.5 hours, whimsical mommy Tess and her daughter Anna will radically change each other's life, literally exchanging bodies. Here again, numerous jokes about growing up at school, relationships with men, differences in age and so on. That is, the topics are raised very serious and relevant, but it is done so that even the most serious similar life situation can be perceived as positively as possible. And this means that the movie is uplifting, what could be more important for this genre?
In my opinion - an excellent youth comedy directed by Waters on the theme “they exchanged bodies”, with excellent actors, plot and soundtrack.
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