Critique of the film “An even more crazy Friday”: Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis deliver the goods

Fans have long hoped for a return from the mother-daughter duo (cinema) made up of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Meanwhile, It is now done with this An even more crazy Friday (Freakier Friday In the original version). Furthermore, a coherent suite and in the same tone as that of its predecessor.

As we know. However, family films (and, by extension, films for teens) generally do not have the ambition to reinvent the wheel. However, This An even more crazy Friday only designs as a desire to redo the original (Freaky Friday) from 2003 by adding characters. a love intrigue, just to make the point more fun.

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Because. since then, Anna (Lindsay Lohan) has fallen in love with Eric (Manny Jacinto), a British chef whose wife died and who raised her daughter alone, now teen, Lily (Sophia Hammons). However, Harper (Julia Butters), Anna’s daughter, and Lily do not get along at all … In fact, the two young girls, who are in the same class, hate each other.

At the same time. Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), Anna’s mother, participates in Harper’s education, a commitment she made when her daughter decided to be a single -parent mother. And we can imagine that the relationships between Anna and Tess are sometimes tense (but always filled with love).

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Where things are wrong is that Anna and Eric must get married and then stay in Los Angeles. Harper. Lily do not see the situation of this eye and, when the change of body comes in for which the frankness is known (Harper becomes his mother, and Lily becomes Tess and vice versa in both cases), they will do everything to separate their parents.

In 111 minutes (including the end credits showing the blooper of the shooting). the Canadian-American filmmaker Nisha Ganatra (known for Cake: life is cakereleased in 2005) and screenwriter Jordan Weiss (who counts the series Dollface In its CV) lead things round despite some lengths.

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The various jokes and gags are, we can imagine, predictable … just like the intrigue and the end, stuffed with good feelings. Obviously. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan (friends in real life) had fun turning this An even more crazy Friday which will only delight lovers of the genre.

Note: 2.5 out of 5

An even more crazy Friday will arrive in the dark rooms of the province on August 8.