Actress Jamie Lee Curtis has spoken out against a review of her latest film, Freakier Friday. The 66-year-old icon stars alongside Lindsay Lohan, with both actresses reprising their original roles from the 2003 installment, Freaky Friday.
The film has been a general success with both critics and audiences, earning a 73% score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and is on track for a $30 million opening weekend at the box office.
However, not all reviews have been positive. An Instagram post from Time magazine described Freakier Friday as having “ugly costumes, humiliating scenarios, and zero added value,” calling it “a sequel with the sole purpose of cashing in on the fondness people have for the original movie and nothing more.”
In a personal defense of the film, Curtis commented on the post, writing, “SEEMS a TAD HARSH,” and adding, “SOME people LOVE it. Me being one.”
Additionally, Clarisse Loughrey, a film critic for The Independent, agreed with Time, stating in her two-star review that “Lohan deserves better than the unfunny nostalgia of this belated sequel.” She wrote that “None of that reinvention or reclamation is actually up on the screen. Instead, she and Curtis are left to merely milk nostalgia out of the film’s original fanbase, while anyone who’s 18 and below gets two Chappell Roan songs and some references to ‘safe spaces’ and ‘gluten-free options.’”
For those unfamiliar with the series, Freakier Friday is the sequel to the body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, where Lindsay Lohan plays Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis plays her on-screen mother, Tess Coleman, who “discover their past may be repeating with the next generation.”
