Freaky Friday (2003) Review

When Dr Tess Coleman and her daughter Anna who have not been getting along with each other are involved in a freak accident and they swap bodies and must learn to understand the other.

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The typical teenage girl and mother constantly clashing as they just don’t understand the other, and don’t really attempt to either. Anna is still struggling to come to terms with her mother getting married again, after the death of her father. Despite Ryan actually being a very nice man, and doing his very best for Tess and her two children.

It allows each of them to really appreciate what the other is going through and experience how it actually feels. Thinking that it would be easy the other way around, but they quickly learn that is not the case and actually make more of a mess than they ever intended. With the wedding fast approaching that weekend is it not going to be easy at all, can they fake it enough so those close to them don’t realise?

Then Anna’s crush on Jake which then gets a little bit werid when her mother does not approve of him, and this leads to Jake actually having a crush on Tess because you know she is really Anna! Obviously we get some extreme moments of Anna not actually realising what her mothers latest book was about and having to see some of her patients and then Tess having to try and play the guitar and sing!

A film like this will always be relevant as each generation doesn’t feel as though the next generation is as good or understands them and vice versa. I actually enjoyed it more than I could remember on the rewatch and I think that is fully down to both Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan being brilliant. Seeing Curtis allowed to behave like a teenager is something that is just so enjoyable!