Jamie Lee Curtis hits out at review that claims ‘Freakier Friday’ is “humiliating”
Jamie Lee Curtis has responded to a new review of the Freaky Friday sequel, Freaker Friday, which deemed the movie “humiliating.”
In the beloved 2003 comedy, Lindsay Lohan and Curtis play a mother and daughter whose complex relationship is further befuddled when they swap bodies. Now, director Nisha Ganatra has ushered in the sequel after more than two decades.
The review that Curtis hit out at seemed to portray the sequel as purely cash-grabbing. Time wrote that “Freakier Friday is a movie that manages to humiliate everybody. And it appears to exist largely for one reason: to grift off the fondness many adults have for the original, even though the sequel has none of that picture’s breezy, observant charm.”
After commenting that Lohan’s character is only expressed through “ugly teenage-girl getups,” the reviewer adds of Curtis, “Curtis fares even worse: she’s more good-natured than she needs to be about the movie’s adult-diaper gags and jokes referencing the frequency with which old people tend to pass gas.”
The review was not to the actor’s liking. She expressed her disdain in a comment on the post on Instagram, which read, “SEEMS a TAD HARSH. SOME people LOVE it. Me being one.”
Curtis has recently shared that she has been trying to quit Hollywood for the past 30 years, describing her process of “self-retiring” over that time. She told The Guardian, “I have been self-retiring for 30 years. I have been prepping to get out, so that I don’t have to suffer the same as my family did. I want to leave the party before I’m no longer invited.”
Earlier this year, the team behind Freakier Friday said that the original made “hurtful” choices regarding the Asian characters. They’ve promised that the new release will “make it right.” In an interview, the director shared, “Ganatra revealed, “It was something I brought up right away when I had my first meetings with the producers. I had a moment of the presentation that was like, ‘Problematic Asian representation!’”
Freakier Friday is in cinemas now. Watch the original trailer below.
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