Freakier Friday Experience

As you can expect with any sequel, there was a significant level of cringe that one must withstand to enjoy this movie. Especially when the last time you had watched this movie, you may have been 19 or so, for nostalgic purposes and recognised that,

‘Wow, this movie is cringe. I was certainly more mature than that when I was 16’

Which is a hilarious consideration, now being 30 and reflecting. A perfect segue into the meaning behind this entire movie franchise.
We forget what it’s like when we are in the thick of the experience.
The coming-of-age culture, environment and circumstances. Coupled with the recognition that we, more or less, stay the same, with significant changes and updates.

Significant changes liiiike the fact that I was at the movies on a solo date night! When you’re a mum, then you were a single mum, and you’ve lost your mum, you simply just enjoy the comfort of your own company.

Others can be such a drag, dating is exhausting, friends can be exhausting with scheduling, and you finally get a break from sorting out the kids’ lives…

Damn straight I would rather be by myself some nights if I can’t spend it with someone in the trenches with me.

Ironically, that is what this entire movie is about. Lindsay Lohan is now a single mother of a teenager. She left her prominent Rockstar career to embark on another successful career in the music industry – a sidestep for security. It very much portrayed the successful matriarch and the requirement for a village in raising a child. Her mother, you can tell from the get-go, was overbearing. Which was a key plot line in the movie played by Jamie-Lee Curtis.

We all know Lindsay fried her brain and doesn’t do the best acting these days. However, it’s easily overlooked because she’s the original Disney gal and embodied the stressors of a professional, single mother spot-on. The comedic strengths of the Zoomers with their hate-hate relationship for most of the movie in attempts to split up the new dating parents were very entertaining and gave a lot of relief to the movie. A greater depth in the story was created through FOUR lots of body swaps, including a poor girl who was not a blood relative, which would have been extra weird for her, was quite amusing and a good upgrade of pace from the original.

As a teenager, I was always a fan of both these women. Lindsay was always the cool, underdog, tomboy that I related to and always looked up to. Jamie-Lee Curtis was the same go-getter, don’t give a f*** attitude, bombshell in Trading Places, her debut movie.

Single motherhood and its challenges were portrayed very well. I did thoroughly enjoy it as a sequel. Very light-hearted and nostalgic. From a metaphysical standpoint, it highlighted some essential truths of history repeating itself and cycles in a slightly different way than the original story. However, efficiently adds to the plotline enough for compelling changes. Give it a red-hot go. Why not? We need a bit more light-heartedness in this world.