{"id":58179,"date":"2025-08-10T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58179\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:05:09","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-calls-out-critic-as-a-tad-harsh-for-negative-freakier-friday-review-some-people-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58179\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis Calls Out Critic as \u2018A Tad Harsh\u2019 For Negative \u2018Freakier Friday\u2019 Review: \u2018Some People Love It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jamie Lee Curtis is not afraid to let critics know what she thinks of their reviews.<\/p>\n

Curtis recently starred in \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d the sequel to her 2003 body-swap comedy \u201cFreaky Friday.\u201d The film sees her reprise the role of Tess Coleman alongside her original co-star and on-screen daughter, Lindsay Lohan. In a post on Instagram<\/a> on Friday, Time shared an excerpt from Stephanie Zacharek\u2019s review of the film.<\/p>\n

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In the review, she wrote, \u201cNo one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003\u2019s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy \u2018Freaky Friday.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Curtis responded by commenting on the post, \u201cSEEMS a TAD HARSH. SOME people LOVE it. Me being one.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems Zacharek is in the minority with her negative review. \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d sits at a 73% and 94% audience score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The film is also performing well at the box office, grossing $12.7 million on Friday<\/a> with a projected three-day gross of $27 to $30 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreakier Friday\u201d takes place decades after the original. Anna now has her own daughter (Julia Butters) and a soon-to-be stepdaughter (Sophia Hammons). As she attempts to navigate the struggles of merging her two families, Anna, her mother Tess, her daughter and her stepdaughter get tangled in a four-way body swap.<\/p>\n

Appearing alongside Lohan, Curtis, Butters and Hammons are Manny Jacinto, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. Nisha Ganatra directed the film with a script from Jordan Weiss, Elyse Hollander and Mary Rodgers.<\/p>\n

In his review for Variety<\/a>, Owen Gleiberman was keen on the long-awaited sequel, writing that the film nailed the \u201cslapstick psychology\u201d of the body-swapping genre with \u201cstodgy aplomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

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