Freakier Friday is a movie chock-full of each callbacks to the unique movie and references to wider parts of popular culture. By the point of Freakier Friday‘s ending, the movie solidifies itself as a nostalgia-driven, energetic, and enjoyable trip. That nostalgia in query is prevalent, with Freakier Friday‘s soundtrack together with some unique songs from its 2003 predecessors.
What additional emboldens the nostalgic enjoyable of the movie, aside from the music, is the returning solid from Freaky Friday. It’s a pleasure to see Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan again in these roles, solely this time with new costars and double the body-swapping mayhem.
As considerably of a legacy sequel to the unique film, provided that Freaky Friday was launched in 2003, the movie is smart sufficient to reference parts of the primary movie. A number of of those callbacks are discovered all through Freakier Friday, as are some pointed references to the broader filmography of Lindsay Lohan.
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“Make Good Selections!”
The primary reference to Freaky Friday present in Freakier Friday is in the course of the movie’s opening college run. Anna and Tess drop the previous’s daughter, Harper, off at college. As Harper will get out of the automobile, Anna tells her to “Make good selections!” This is similar factor Tess says to Anna when dropping her off at college within the opening of 2003’s Freaky Friday.
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Anna & Eric’s “Imply Ladies” Marriage ceremony Day
As with the primary film, the main focus of Freakier Friday is a marriage, this time between Anna and Manny Jacinto’s Eric. When scrolling by means of her cellphone calendar originally of the film, the marriage is scheduled for October third. This can be a reference, albeit an unintentional one, as revealed to Collider‘s Perri Nemiroff, to Imply Ladies Day.
In Lohan’s Imply Ladies, launched a 12 months after Freaky Friday, her character, Cady, remembers how, on October third, a boy she has a crush on requested her what day it was. The movie bluntly cuts to Cady replying, “It is October third,” that means that date has perpetually been referred to as Imply Ladies Day since then.
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Rolling Over In Mattress Throughout The Physique Swap
In each Freaky Friday and Freakier Friday, the characters have related bodily reactions to the body-swapping mayhem. Each films present the characters turning over in mattress, signifying that they’ve undergone the swap earlier than waking up of their relations’ our bodies.
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The Response To Physique Swapping
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The preliminary physique swap sequence of Freakier Friday takes lots of inspiration from the identical scene in Freaky Friday. The sequel has a number of scenes involving the characters taking a look at their new our bodies within the mirror, making humorous remarks about how previous they now are, how dehydrated their pores and skin feels, or how knotty their hair is.
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Working Into Every Different Put up-Physique Swap
One of many funnier gags in Freakier Friday is taken immediately from the primary film. Within the latter, when Anna and Tess first swap, they attempt to run into one another and jolt their souls again into the right our bodies.
In Freakier Friday, Anna and Tess, now in Harper and Lily’s our bodies, strategize concerning the days forward, provided that they’ve been on this place earlier than. Harper and Lily, nonetheless, are proven speaking quietly within the background of the shot earlier than smashing into one another. The ladies had the identical concept as their older counterparts did 20 years in the past, marking a hilarious callback to Freaky Friday.
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The Marriage ceremony Time Bomb
One other callback to Freaky Friday present in Freakier Friday is the general crux of the film’s plot. Within the sequel, Anna, Tess, Harper, and Lily are dashing to change again to their unique our bodies earlier than Anna’s wedding ceremony to Eric. Within the first film, Anna and Tess wished to change again earlier than the latter’s wedding ceremony to Ryan.
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Tess & Anna’s Makeover
Whereas in Tess’ physique in Freaky Friday, Anna makes use of her bank cards to purchase a completely new wardrobe and get a slick new haircut. This additionally occurs in Freakier Friday, this time with Harper and Lily present process a number of makeovers as Anna and Tess, respectively. Within the sequel, that is even larger due to a number of photoshoots.
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The Guardian Lure Cameo
Curiously, considered one of these aforementioned photoshoots incorporates a cameo from considered one of Lindsay Lohan’s first films, The Guardian Lure. This cameo comes within the type of Elaine Hendrix, who appeared in The Guardian Lure as evil would-be stepmother Meredith Blake. In Freakier Friday, Hendrix portrays a photographer.
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Kissing Your Mother’s Boyfriend?!
Among the finest working gags all through Freaky Friday was Anna’s makes an attempt, whereas in Tess’ physique, to not kiss Ryan. In Freakier Friday, the identical occurs, solely this time with Harper, in Anna’s physique, making an attempt to not kiss Eric.
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Detention & Mr. Bates
A number of occasions in Freaky Friday, Anna is shipped to detention by her academics. Considered one of these academics is Mr. Elton Bates, a person who has an unfair vendetta towards Anna, as Tess as soon as rejected him as a promenade date. In Freakier Friday, Anna and Tess (as Harper and Lily) are despatched to detention, with the punishment helmed by none aside from Elton Bates.