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Freaky Friday is a body swap film much in the same vein as Vice Versa, where two people swap bodies through some supernatural means and then struggle through as each of them try to come to comes with the swap as well realising ways of enjoying themselves a little bit more than usual!
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan play the mother and daughter, constantly bickering, Tess and Anna Coleman. Tess is due to get married to Ryan (Mark Harmon), while Anna is suffering as every teenager does with everything being so unfair!! When a restaurant owner's daughter chants a 'spell' during a dinner evening out, neither of them think anything of it......until they wake up the next day in each other's bodies!
What follows is a well written and acted hour and a half of comedy, with situations cropping up all over the place, making it awkward for the switched mother and daughter. As Tess' wedding draws ever closer, the pressure heightens, as does the comedy. Curtis and Lohan work very well, as both personalities, and it does examine their different acting abilities, with both having to play a hormonal teenage girl and a busy working mum.
They are well supported by a cast featuring Mark Harmon (NCIS' Gibbs) and Stephen Tobolowky (Heroes' Bob), as well as a smattering of other actors who all do their admirably. But it is the comedy that won me on this one, and not necessarily the acting. The situations that the two find themselves in are hilarious, with Anna facing a music competition and a maths exam, and Tess being a successful psychologist with plenty of patients to see, and both of them resulting in cringeworthy circumstances.
There were quite a few moments where I laughed out loud, and this is always a good sign with me. Okay, so it's not the greatest comedy film ever, and doesn't even come close, but I find that there are a lot of films that get overpraised and equally underpraised, and I rather think it depends as much on the effort going in as it does on the resulting effect on screen. Quite often, a film is analysed solely on its result and not on what has gone into it. I am aware that this gets a few laughs, but I know that it's nothing that really taxes the mind. There is nothing to work out or frazzle your brain about: just sit back and watch the film!
That having been said, some of the scenes were very cleverly written to involve awkward and embarrassing moments. Not quite a la Basil Fawlty, and you can see a lot of them coming, but it is clever writing and well executed comedy that win the day here.
Overall, it's a very well made film, in so many ways. Okay, so it's not an epic and doesn't involved a million and one twists and turns, but what it does rather simply, it also does with great attention. Freaky Friday is available to buy from amazon.co.uk fir a very low price, at the moment. It's worth watching, but I'm not sure if I'd ever stretch to buying the DVD, even if I did enjoy watching it.
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Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
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