Freaky Friday Review |
by John Ulmer (Rating: 4/5) |
The teenage years are hard. Countless films have been made about that era in
every person's life, including this year's controversial "13." And the
biggest surprise may be the way Disney handles the subject in "Freaky
Friday," not toning down premises...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
In FREAKY FRIDAY, Lindsay Lohan, playing her second switching part in a Disney
remake, manages to be even cuter than she was in THE PARENT TRAP. It may be
hard to properly ascertain the relative artistic merits of a drama, but, for
comedies, my metric...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Homer Yen (Rating: B+) |
Okay, admit it. When you were in your teens, the
lives of your parents either baffled you, annoyed
you, or both. They wore drab clothing, imposed
unrealistic rules, and were an embarrassment to
you when your friends were around. What is up
with these...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 4/5) |
Mary Rodger's book has gotten quite a lot of mileage from its modest
number of pages. The simple notion of a supernatural switching of
bodies (not just Trading Places or the Corsican Brothers, or even
Big) can open up all kinds of narrative...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2.5/4) |
Remember the late Eighties, when a rash of "body switching" comedies
flooded
the octoplexes? Movies like "Big," "Vice Versa," and "Like Father, Like Son"?
"Freaky Friday" feels like a holdover from that period even though, oddly
enough,
it's...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Terri Clark (Rating: B) |
Things got freaky in 1976 when Ellen Andrews (Barbara Harris) switched bodies
with her thirteen-year-old daughter Annabel (Jodie Foster) after making a wish
on Friday the 13th. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Disney has given
Mary Rodgers'...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B+) |
Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten
Grade: B+
Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by: Mark S. Waters
Written by: Heather Hach, Leslie Dixon, novel by Mary Rodgers
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Harold Gould, Janet
Choi, Chad Murray, Mark Harmon
Screened at:...more |
Freaky Friday Review |
by Robin Clifford (Rating: C+) |
Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her 15-year old daughter Anna (Lindsay
Lohman), like many modern mothers and daughters, do not see eye to eye. Widowed
mom is getting remarried and wants Anna to accept her fiancé Ryan (Mark
Harmon). Anna is a...more |