{"id":71395,"date":"2025-08-10T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71395\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:32:08","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-calls-critic-a-harsh-for-freakier-friday-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71395\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis Calls Critic a ‘Harsh’ For ‘Freakier Friday’ Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\n\tCurtis recently starred in \u201cFreakier Friday<\/a>,\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

\n\tIn 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

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

\n\tIt 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

\n\t\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

\n\tAppearing 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

\n\tIn 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