Some films leave us a stubborn impression. Sometimes we forgive the heaviness, the lengths, since they occupy a precious place in our repository: the guilty pleasures, we never summon them in their ideal filmography, but we find them in the envy of immersing themselves in the tenderness of childhood.
These same films, we fear watching a sequel, since the latter would risk spoiling our first love. Strange Friday (2003) is one of these. Of these melancholic works that cannot be love. The second part FRIDAY 2 Freaky: still in my mother’s shoesProduced by Nisha Ganatra is, fortunately, of the same Ilk.
Twenty -two years later, Disney’s recipe does not change: a broken dialogue between a mother and a daughter, a body exchange (understand an exchange of body) and real comedy scenes. No more disputes: the relationships are now peaceful between Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), is still a successful psychologist and presenter of a podcast, and Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) – Ex -rockstar turned into artists.
The tornado is elsewhere. Harper (Julia Butters), a 15 -year -old reckless teenager whom he has alone aluminum, prefers the waves and surf table in high school banks. Maybe because he met his enemy sworn there in his pair of chemistry: Lily (Sophia Hammons), English Coqueto, newcomer to Los Angeles and already Dorw. Fateryly deduces from all kinds of confrontations, from a battle of cakes in the patio of recreation to a completely chaotic scientific experience.
The situation gets stuck when Anna knows Eric (Manny Jacinto) – successful chef, Lily and Widower Pope. A ray … that leads to a pern: the rebel of offspring, and relationships are still attending. Thanks to a prophecy in a body of Clarvoyant, Harper and Anna Exchange, Lily and Dr. Tess Coleman do the same. In an adult body, rival teenagers allicated to avoid the union of their parents.
To please fans at the expense of the narrative?
Rivalry, reconciliation, morality in the family (relegated) and everything is good that it ends well. Without renewing the genre of Films for teenagers – Adolescence learning films, FRIDAY FREAKY 2 Unwinds a soft and tender intrigue, comforting as a sweet. Do we expect more than one comedy? Feel good produced by Disney?
Director Nisha Ganatra (Brooklyn nine, White dear) offers its (double) version of the exchange. But, difficult to be original, since the issue is worn out, among the unforgettable Big (1988) in which Tom Hanks plays a child in an adult body and Crazy Crazy Crazy Friday (1976), the first version of Strange Friday With Jodie Foster.
With multiple cameos and winks to Mark Waters movie in 2003, we would also oppose an impression, sometimes slow, already seen. However, there is no doubt about pleasure when the pink slip – Anna Rock Garage Group – Recover the service with its title Take me. Madeleine de Proust and Fan service Pure and hard.
Gen z Portrait
FRIDAY FREAKY 2 It also touches when it represents, with sincerity, a generation and an era: no longer those of millennials, but of the gen Z. version 2025, the sale of cakes includes all possible food intolerances, which are listed below, become absurd. Anna applies all positive to ridiculous precepts. Eric, Lily’s father, evokes “gas lighting” (driving technique) that children would exercise against him, before his daughter reminds him of the exact definition.
If the scenario plays with the mandates of the time, it also updates with the mistakes of the past. Therefore, the rest hides the racist representation towards the Asians who existed in the first part. This time, the exchange It no longer intervenes as a result of the mischief of a Chinese restaurateur and a fortune of cookies (cookie that contains a message), but a consultation with a cardboard, completely illuminated, which accumulates as many tapas as scams.
Finally, how can we not emphasize the remarkable interpretation of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis? Two decades later, the accomplice tandem responds in even more fun scenes.
In the apogee of the comic: the meeting between Anna, actually Harper, and his young love Jake (Chad Michael Murray), in a vinyl store. Following Lily’s chaotic indications, trapped in Tess’s body, Harper tries to seduce the beautiful blonde, with a wink and bordered lips. The opportunity to discover a hilarious Lindsay Lohan to cry.
FRIDAY FREAKY 2 Is it even more crazy than your predecessor? I’m not so sure. Far from being disappointing and served by a gold casting, the rest must be considered as it is: a comic and moving family film, without pretensions or revolution. But who immerses us in a cozy nostalgia.
Source: BFM TV
