1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Great per flick with ben o'sheel. Like, there's been a 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: run of sequels getting really like further and further apart 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: lately ben O'Shea, and this is one of them. Twenty 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: two years in the making. 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Freaky a Friday a sequel to long 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: awaited sequel to Freaky Friday. A classic for people of 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 2: a certain age. I think the probably elder millennials now, 8 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: people around that age, maybe like twenty five to thirty 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 2: five are probably in the sweet spot. Yeah, of people 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: who watched the original in two thousand and three. I 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: think it was with the amazing Jamie Lee Curtis, who's 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: just an absolute queen, and of course Lindsay Lohan, a 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 2: very young Lindsay Lohan. It's a classic body swap movie 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: where the mum and daughter don't see I do I. 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: Jamie Lee Curtis's character is this psychologist who always is 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: trying to, you know, sort of get her daughter to 17 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 2: be more mindful and thoughtful. Lindsay Lohan played the sort 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: of the young rocker, you know, we sort of want 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: to be rock band, didn't listen to her mum, didn't 20 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: think she had to be respectful, and then they have 21 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: a fortune Cookie situation. They swap bodies and they learned 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,559 Speaker 2: to you know, walk a mile in the other's shoes. 23 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: Disney film. It was actually a remake of an earlier 24 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: Disney movie in nineteen ninety five that starred Shelley Long 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: Freaky Friday Terrible straight to TV. Oh, and the original 26 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 2: movie was in the seventies, was based on a book 27 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: that was, you know, classic books written back in the day. 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 2: And so now along comes this sequels twenty odd years later. 29 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: It follows along from you know, Top Gun, Maverick Beetlejuice Too. 30 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 2: There's been a bunch of these delayed sequels. Happy Gilmore 31 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: two was the one we just had recently, and they've 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: all been, at best pretty average. Happy Gilmore Too was terrible. 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: It was an absolute stinker. And so I went into 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: Freaky of Friday thinking, oh, you know, I don't know 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: how good this is going to be. It's nostalgia. I 36 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: get it, I get the appeal, but it's actually awesome. 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: It's actually really good. It's so hard to do a 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 2: film like this where it's so you know, past its prime, 39 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 2: well delayed. But Jamie Lee Curtis is amazing, of course, 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: and she's still amazing Lindsay Lohan. She's fully back. 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: She has had the most full circle, full circle moment, 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: and I'm really happy for it. She's living a great. 43 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: So stoked for it. Like and she made that really 44 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: horrible Christmas movie that came out on Netflix and that 45 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: was the other time, and that was that was sort 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: of her comeback movie. And I watched that, I thought, 47 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if that is a comeback. I'm not 48 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: really sure if is going to get all the way back. 49 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: But this movie proves that she's ready for her leading roles. 50 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 2: So scripts she looks fantastic and so in this film, 51 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: it kind of follows the formula of the first one. 52 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: You've Got Jamie Lee Curtis is now a grandmar because 53 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: Lindsay Lohan has a daughter of her own. She's a 54 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: single mum having very similar sort of problems parenting as 55 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: Jamie Lee Curtis's character did in the first film. A 56 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: daughter that doesn't really listen headstrong. This daughter named Harper, 57 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 2: wants to be a surfer, doesn't really care about school, 58 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 2: certainly doesn't care about listening to her mum. And meanwhile, 59 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: the daughter is also having some dramas with a girl 60 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: at school, this British girl who's so cool, everyone loves us. 61 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: They're sort of frenemies, I guess. And then things become 62 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 2: more complicated when the British girl's dad played by Manny Jacinto, 63 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: who people might remember as Jason Mendoza from The Good Place, 64 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: who sort of, you know, sort of a British teacher, 65 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: falls in love with Lindsay Lohan's Anna, and then they 66 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: get they're going to get married, and then it creates 67 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: this sort of four way dilemma with Jamie Lee Curtis 68 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 2: and Lindsay Lohan and the two young actresses four way 69 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: body swap oh no, which it is Free Freakia. We 70 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: Initially it's actually quite hard to follow because you forget 71 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: who is supposed to be here. Jamie Lee Curtis goes 72 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: into the teenage British girl and vice versa, and Lindsay 73 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: Lohan and her daughter swap. So that bit is pretty straightforward, 74 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: quite of similar to the first movie. The other aspect 75 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: of it is a little harder to get your head around, 76 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: but you know, Jamie Lee Curtis can make anything worse, 77 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: and so then you've got multiple times during the film 78 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: where there's callbacks to the original. So Lindsay Lohan's boyfriend 79 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: from the original, Jake, he's kind of in there. He 80 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: comes makes an appearance, Chad Michael Murray, Chad Michaus Murray. 81 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 2: There's a great Britney Britney Spears scene that we saw 82 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: in the original movie. There's a callback to that, the 83 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 2: pink slip, Lindsay Lohan's band. You know, there's a lot 84 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: going on in this film, and fans of the original, 85 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: I think we really appreciate the care that they took 86 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: to bring that nostalgia to life again, but in a 87 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: way that offers something new, and I think that's what's 88 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: that's what works about this film because so often, in 89 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 2: the case of Beatle Just Too or Happy Gilmore Too, 90 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 2: all they do is just recycle the same jokes. Yeah, 91 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 2: and there's nothing new, and you go, it's it was 92 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 2: funny the first time around, but it just kind of 93 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 2: feels like you're exploiting, you know, my love of the 94 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: original comercial gain, whereas this one they actually tried to 95 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: give us something new material and a few twists on 96 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 2: some of those nostalgic moments where you go, you know what, 97 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: that's actually pretty clever that's cool. And so in the end, 98 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 2: you know, I think this is a film that fans 99 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: of the original will really dig. And I think it's 100 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: you know, you could take you could take your kids 101 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: long to see it, and the fans of the original 102 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 2: will also love. It's a family film. There's a lot 103 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: of laughs in it too, unlike Happig Gilmore Too, which 104 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: didn't have any laughs at all. But yeah, so at 105 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: the start of this year, you know, I circled both 106 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: of these films on the calendar, and Okay, Happy Gilmore 107 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: two is going to be massive. Freaky of Friday for 108 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: the fans of that original film is going to be massive. 109 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: But I thought there was no chance at all that 110 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 2: Freaky of Friday was going to be the better. Okay, 111 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: in a Millionaeres would have thought that, But it's not 112 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: even close. You are talking up mate? Is this because 113 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 2: you saw Brideheart last week? That's I would I would 114 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: actually recommend that to any studio. Make our film critics 115 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: watch Brideheart first. Any other movie, any other movie is 116 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 2: going to be just incredible in comparison. 117 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,679 Speaker 1: All right, Well, how many Lindsay Loans had more Freaky 118 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: Fridays than we've had? Good to see her doing well. 119 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: Are you giving it? What do you recommend? I'm just 120 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: thinking about some of Lindsay Lohan's freaky Fridays. It was 121 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: a couple of decades, wasn't Oh my gosh, but no, 122 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: it's so fantastic to see her back in action. Three 123 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: and a half. Oh, very good. Better than point five.