Wednesday, August 06, 2025

An Honest Trailer for Freaky Friday



I saw this Honest Trailer for Freaky Friday posted today, and couldn't figure out why Screen Junkies would do an Honest Trailer for a YA movie from 2003. It turns out that a sequel called Freakier Friday opens this weekend, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, and Mark Harmon playing the same characters 22 years later. I guess there's an audience for this, since it's become an entire franchise

Anyway, if you're going to see the new movie, you might want to go back to the original and refresh your mind first. Did I say original? There have actually been four movies with the title Freaky Friday, in 1976, 1995, 2003 and 2018 (and I haven't seen any of them). The Jamie Lee Curtis version was the biggest hit the the four. The verdict from Screen Junkies: it's kind of dumb, and surprisingly racist for its time. Let's hope the geriatric version does better. 

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