Returning to the universe of the desired film for a long -awaited sequel is high, but making a few decades later puts pressure even more: it can be difficult to deliver something really satisfying and not only "good" because your expectations are low. Just ask "Happy Gilmore 2." But always and then, the magic that made that original movie so wonderful, and I'm surprised like anyone who "Freakier Friday" appeared with flying colors.

As early as 2003, Disney's "Friday" was a modern remake of a classic body exchange comedy, which found Ieii Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as the duo of a mother/daughter, who struggle to find a common country as long as mystical wealth forced them to live. It's probably the best version of the famous formula (Even Quentin Tarainino loves him. Flash ahead by 2025, and Freak Friday raises the antetet with four -way body exchange.

Tess Coleman (Curtis) is still a working psychologist who is preparing to go on her first book tour, and she even accepts that sweet podcasting market. At least this is the media used by the film to help catch the audience in her life, which includes helping her adult daughter Anna (Lohan), now working as a music manager of a big pop named Ella (Maitri Ramakrishnan from The spectacular "I've never ever ever ever"), as a quasi-co-parent of similar rebellious, Surfer daughter Harper (Iaululia Butterers, "once, in time ... in Hollywood"). You see, Anna chose to raise Harper as a single parent, and no more backstew than that. Honestly, it doesn't matter to the story, and in reality, it's not a job, but an Anna.

However, Anna's life will change quite dramatically when a school rivalry between Harper and a newly emigrated fashion, planted British student named Lily (Sofia Hamons) results in a meeting with her parent Eric (Manny Jacakinto from "Good Place") where sparks fly flirting, and six -month courtship leads to a quick engagement and an impending marriage that makes the confrontation of Harper and Lily, which is much harder to handle (not to mention a similar emergency framework for the body's exchange formula).

Fortunately, "Freakier Friday" is not just a lazy review of the first film and has a fantastic evolution of adulthood for our returning characters, as well as some new problems they have to face at this stage of their lives. Plus, we have a second layer of heart and laughs when it comes to introducing the younger generation of fun. Even the true magic magic that brings body exchange has learned lessons from the past, because the generic, stereotypical Asian mysticism from the original film was replaced by a discount on Fortune Teller Madame Enen, played beautifully by Vanessa Bayer ("Saturday night").

When the magic holds overnight, there are no Tess and Anna who change places with each other. This time, Tess exchanges Lily's places, and Anna exchanges Harper's places, making more absurd confusion and chaos. In fact, if there is a major disadvantage in the film, it is that the four -way body exchange is initially quite disorienting, and for the first half of the film, you may find yourself forgetting who should embody who. But in the end, it becomes much easier to follow as the story takes place.

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While the first film offered many jokes aged from perspective and panties to comment on the gap between 15-year-old Anna and the middle-aged Tessa of Lohan, Anna and Curtis, a new wrinkle is added now that Tess is a full-time grandmother. Kudos to Curtis because it is a game to make Lily make such devastating jokes about her old appearance, from being raised in her forehead to the lack of lips. There are many other fun examples of generation oking and production, everything from Facebook is considered technology for old people to Coldplay and Johnon Mayer is geriatric music of choice.

"Freakier Friday" does not waste much time explaining this magic of Harper and Lily, leaving them to trust Tess and Anna to know what they are talking about when they discover they have been dealing with this. But this leaves Tess and Anna to try to find out how to bring the magic back as quickly as possible, while still having fun as parents of age -old bodies, taking advantage of the whole advantage of eating all the things their bodies cannot handle and drive beach scooters, while the girls explode.

Meanwhile, Harper and Lily are leading a little secret to returning the magic so they can spend time on Tess and Anna's bodies to stop Anna to marry Eric. Harper doesn't want to leave Los Angeles, but Lily wants to return to London, her heart still hurts her mother's loss as a child. Thus, the two came up with a plan to spoil them that involves calling the ex -boyfriend of Anna Joke (Chad Michael Murray, now Christmas on Netflix), Biker heartthrob from the first film. Honestly, it is almost a double "freak Friday" with a reverse "parental trap", which sounds like a very complicated move on ice skating.

But this is also where the heart of the film originates. Harper and Lily are the characters who should primarily understand to break down the magic, though there is still much that Anna and Tess should also solve, even if their conflict that includes the overwhelming co-parenting of Tess and Anna's unwillingness to accept her help.

Don't worry, Ieii Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan still get a lot of time on the screen, and they are nowhere near the side for this. As soon as we have already seen Lohan and Curtis make this dance earlier, and that's the Iaululia Batrs and Sofia Hamons to turn to learn a lesson. The good news is that both young stars more than holding their own veteran colleagues, especially when it comes to real hearty and emotional stories that help make this sequel better than it has the right to be.

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Curtis is still the highest MVP of all production. She gives this performance 100%again, and the way she embodies teenage energy with that little extra, straight, British turnaround because Lily is incredibly funny. Lohan is still having a good time, and she must occasionally bring some of the same energy to her performance, but Curtis has much more to play with her portrait of Sofia Hamons.

Yes, there's still plenty of hilarity and silliness that is just on the cusp of being to Absurd, Especiaally When Lily and Harper (Remember, they are in tess and anna's bodies) Start Hanging Out with Popstar Ella, Help Hergh Ahroughh A. High Profile Celebrity Breakup and Have an Impromptu Photoshoot Wearing Some Wild, Fashionable Wardrobes in a sequence that undeniably fun but Verges and being a Little Too Wacky. But "Freakier Friday" is not yet moving away from the tone and style of the original.

Pperaps the best refreshing part of this legacy-quel is that it is not obsessed with simply reviving the most beloved moments just because they can. Director Nisha Ganatra (On Mindy Kaling's "Late Night") and the writer Jordandan Weiss ("Dusks") use feedback and other characters that are rarely and naturally returned. In fact, except for the primary concept of the film itself, the sequel eventually saves most of the nostalgia for the latest act of film, which will make fans of Lohan's fictional rock band very happy.

Gete see Mark Harmon as Tess's husband, Ryan, though he does not give the role of support the same size, and that's perfect. Friends of Anna's rock band, played by Christina Vidal and Haley Hudson, have returned, but they do not fit into the story. Anna's brother, Harry (again played by Ryan Malgarini), is returning for a short moment, but the directors were smart enough to know that he should not be included in the whole story this time. Even the presence of Chad Michael Murray as Jake makes the perfect sense, and the script is not too worried to explain what is wrong with his high school romance with Anna, because it has been 22 years, and no one has to worry about it at this age.

When it descends, "Freak Friday" is alive, fun, charming and simply pleasant. He manages to return to the world of the original "Friday Friday" without being too big for its towels or missing rhythm. Again, while the square exchange of the body may tend to make the film feel a little unwanted and untidy here and there, "Friday Friday" is still an explosion, perhaps even burst, carrying movies like "13 go to 30" and "Cluil" in front of it. Honestly, it's just nice to have this kind of family comedy, giving such quality laughter at a time when the studio has left them greatly.

/Movie rating: 8 out of 10

"Freakier Friday" opens in theaters on August 8, 2025.