{"id":18106,"date":"2025-07-23T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18106\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:00:11","slug":"does-freakier-friday-live-up-to-the-original-movie-heres-the-first-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18106\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Freakier Friday live up to the original movie? Here’s the first reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freakier Friday<\/a> is slated for release on 8 August 2025<\/a>, and ahead of its debut in cinemas, members of the press have released early reviews, hailing the movie as an “absolute riot” and a “funtastic sequel”. <\/p>\n

Taking to X, viewers shared their thoughts on the Freaky Friday sequel, while lauding Lindsay Lohan<\/a> and Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> for their on-screen chemistry and hilarious performances. <\/p>\n

Among them, TV host Jeff Conway<\/a> penned a glowing review, writing: “Freakier Friday is double the fun and twice the sweetness as the original! These 22 years later, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis haven’t missed a beat! Their on-screen chemistry is truly something special. A true delight that the entire family will enjoy!” <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jazz Tangcay<\/a>, Variety<\/a>‘s Senior Artisan Editor, added: “#freakierFriday is an absolute riot! I laughed and I cried. It’s such a great feel-good film. Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis deliver hilarity and emotion in this funtastic sequel. I never knew I needed this film! Oh, and Manny Jacinto, I love him.” <\/p>\n

Entertainment journalist and podcast host Brandon Davis<\/a> was equally impressed by the film. <\/p>\n

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“#FreakierFriday is great. I was howling. Jamie Lee Curtis is having the time of her life, and it’s a blast to watch. It’s silly and sometimes confusing, but hilarious throughout, even touching at times. Absolutely some of the most fun I’ve had watching a movie this year.” <\/p>\n

Directed by Nisha Ganatra, Freakier Friday picks up with mother-daughter duo Tess (Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lohan) years after they reluctantly swapped bodies. <\/p>\n

As Anna, now a mother to Harper (Julia Butters), prepares to marry Eric (Manny Jacinto<\/a>) and become a stepmother to his daughter Lily (Sophia Hammons), she and Tess contend with the challenges of merging two families. <\/p>\n

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So, when lightning strikes twice, and Tess and Anna wake up as Lily and Harper, plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and drama quickly unfold. <\/p>\n

Rounding out the cast, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray<\/a>, Rosalind Chao and Christina Vidal all reprise their roles from the first film. <\/p>\n

Freakier Friday lands in UK cinemas on 8 August 2025.<\/p>\n

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Megan is a freelance news reporter for Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freakier Friday is slated for release on 8 August 2025, and ahead of its debut in cinemas, members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[379,11686,381,96,2788,1156,2839,11685,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-bfd0a46d-ca68-4526-882d-9af3a2f67182","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-the-first-reactions-for-freakier-friday-are-in","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}