Freaky Friday

When I first saw the commercials for this movie, I was annoyed that they were making yet another version of this, but we thought we'd give it a try anyway since we usually end up loving Disney movies. This was terrible. Like, so bad. I can't believe Disney even went through with this. Also, I feel I should add that I LOVE musicals, and this being an unexpected musical made it sooo much worse. The acting is bad. The lip syncing is bad. The songs are ridiculous (I mean, that biology one was just painful to watch with the lyrics and the cheesy dancing, and lets not even go into the fact that it's actually the mother singing about having feelings for a teenage boy..awkward). We will definitely not be watching this again.

A musical? Really? 2003 version should have been the last. This version is horrible, the music is terrible, and who are these people?

'Freaky Friday' is awful in every way, a complete embarrassment to its namesake. The daughter character has no redeeming characteristics -- she is lazy, dirty, socially handicapped, and is completely devoid of empathy. She treats everyone around her like they are sub-human. They took the teenager trope way too far and created a character the audience could never root for, and it is not believable that the other characters like her.

The mother character also makes no sense. No adult would have such a flawed memory as to go into high school so naive, starry eyed, and earnest. She also seemed to lose her ability to take social cues when she switched bodies. I'm not sure if the writers themselves have ever been to high school. I also do not understand why the writers thought it was a good idea to give her a crush on a 14 year old boy.

The songs are exclusively terrible and so long it becomes awkward, honestly not sure why it was a made a musical. There's no reason to say anything more than that, the musical segments have to be seen to for one to really understand how abhorrent they are.

So, why did I give this movie a 2 instead of a 1? All the problems I listed above combine for a special kind of awful. This movie is hilarious, from the bad lip syncing and singing down to the irrational and suspension of disbelief shattering level of unrealistic behavior the characters exhibit. At around a 70 minute runtime it is the perfect movie to watch when you're bored and looking for a laugh.

I tried giving it a chance. I didn't want to be THAT person who's always complaining about old ones always being the better ones, because we all need remakes every once in a while to keep the culture going. But not like this. I have one word for the movie, TRASH. Horrible horrible horrible. If I could get a refund from my Cable provider for those 2 hours I could.

I was excited to hear about the remake but i could barely get through the first half hour. The acting was the worst I've seen. Not a fan of the casting choices. No one sang good either. Not sure if it was a problem with direct tv or not, but the synching was not matched up with the voices to their lips. It was way off. The original was a million times better. This was awful. Just embarrassingly awful.