It’s laborious to imagine that after I first noticed Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday, we had been each youngsters—and now, with Freakier Friday out this summer time, we’re each mothers. It’s so wild! The whiplash of “oh my god, it’s taking place” hit tremendous laborious as I used to be watching the brand new Freakier Friday trailer at present. Lohan’s character Anna is now a profitable musician, and Jamie Lee Curtis is again as Tess, her therapist mother, within the sequel to a household fave I share with my very own mom.
I used to sing alongside to the Pink Slip (Anna’s band) songs, and after I just lately rewatched the movie shocked myself at how I nonetheless know all of the lyrics to “Take Me Away.” So seeing that the sequel’s body-swap hijinks occur on the band’s get together (I clocked the emblem instantly) makes me much more excited to see the way it all unfolds.
This time, the freakier a part of Friday is that there are 4 characters concerned: Anna and Tess swap our bodies with Anna’s teenaged daughter and her teenaged soon-to-be-stepdaughter. The mother and daughter lesson will get handed on to Anna and her teen, which makes me really feel outdated. Oddly Tess and stepdaughter swap too, which is bizarre, however we hope they pull that off as a result of she’s an outlier. It is smart that it occurs to Anna and her child as a result of final time round, Anna was tremendous rebellious and a handful, at the very least in keeping with Tess, who “simply didn’t perceive” her. It’s a timeless trope, as loads of us have been there, and it looks like simply yesterday too. I swear I had the identical Sizzling Subject fishnet sleeves constituted of cut-up leggings, worn beneath a tee with that very same studded belt and loop bracelets Lohan donned within the first film. Much more unbelievable but is how one can stroll right into a Sizzling Subject now and discover all of these objects as vogue has come full circle.
I hope we get to see Anna’s daughter mirror her mother when she was a teen, however it’s fairly unsure based mostly off the trailer. We don’t get an excessive amount of of the mother-daughter dynamic right here, however will probably be fascinating to see how the relationships evolve in a quad Freaky Friday state of affairs. The opening has Anna and Tess being informed their lifelines have intersected and are warned the lesson might return. In a blink otherwise you’ll miss it second, the primary movie’s fortune cookie-giving mom of the Chinese language restaurant proprietor seems subsequent to the DJ (who seems to be like she might be her granddaughter)—so we surprise if she’s behind the mystic hijinks as soon as once more. Having lived generational classes with my very own mother, who does prefer to meddle within the lives of these she cares about, I’m so excited to see this along with her.
Whereas this trailer went for a extra nostalgic tone, introducing who’s again among the many characters—just like the band, the imply professor, and naturally sizzling Jake from highschool (Chad Michael Murray reprises the function)—there’s not a lot identified in regards to the story. It’s additionally unclear if Jake’s the newborn daddy to Anna’s teen, however we additionally know Manny Jacinto is within the forged, and he’s rumored to play Anna’s present beau. And sure we’re blessed along with his gun present. We’re so grateful for that shot of these biceps and it makes this film really feel much more aimed toward millennial mothers. I can’t imagine I’m one now—I used to chase my annoying little brother out of the room after I’d faux to be in Pink Slip, and now he’s an uncle who towers over me. Freaky certainly.
Freakier Friday opens August 8 and Freaky Friday is at present streaming on Disney+.
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