Cinema. "Freaky Friday 2" with Lindsay Lohan: What's the sequel to the cult comedy from the 2000s worth?

This is what happened in 2003, in Freaky Friday : Tess Coleman, a widow about to remarry, and her 15-year-old daughter, Anna, woke up one morning in each other's shoes, forced to resolve their mutual incomprehension and adopt the point of view of the other they criticized.

More than 20 years later, the sequel recycles the body swap and we see the same old story, with Tess and Anna, suddenly thrust into the bodies of teenagers—Anna's daughter and her future daughter-in-law. Anna, now a single mother, is about to remarry, just like her mother did yesterday in the first installment. In the end, it's the same story, everyone—happy ending—develops mutual respect and understanding.

Needless to say, the stuttering script is a bit lazy, and just goes over the same idea again, even if updated since we move away from the generational conflict to the conflict of the blended family, in a very sitcom formula, with love at first sight... In short, we stay with the same sauce and the same principle, that is, situational comedy, all wrapped up in a staging that moves quickly and seems to film life in fast motion.

If we're served up the same old comedy about swapping personalities, with a slightly moralistic concoction about "selfishness and prejudice are bad," the entertainment has its own touch of madness, a jubilant double performance by Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. This mother-daughter duo has something of the crazy mother duo from the series Absolutely Fabulous , joyfully offbeat - minus the immorality and drunkenness, Freaky Friday 2 being a Disney family film, deliciously refreshing nonetheless!

Freaky Friday 2: Being My Mother Again by Nisha Ganatra, in theaters this Wednesday, August 6. Running time: 1 hour 52 minutes.