I’m in full agreement with those who say our culture is suffering from reboot fatigue. (I mean, how hard is it to come up with an original idea for a rom-com? I have, like, 40! As Kim Kardashian once said, nobody wants to work anymore.) However, when I heard Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis would be reprising their mother-daughter roles in a Freaky Friday reboot inventively titled…Freakier Friday, I knew immediately just how seated I would be for said film.
While Freakier Friday isn’t out in theaters until August 8, we’ve officially been blessed with a trailer as of this Friday (shrewd release date on Disney’s part, IMO). Watch it below, then find quite literally every thought I had about this little snippet of the Nisha Ganatra-directed joy coming our way this summer.
- Okay, Lindsay! Serving absolute face!
- Jamie Lee looks good too, although I feel that she (and women over 50 everywhere) deserves better than that very specific overgrown-bob-slash-halfhearted-shag haircut.
- Vanessa Bayer! Let’s go!
- Honestly, if I’d body-switched with my mom in my teens, I think I’d be avoiding any instance of the occult with her, including fortune-telling.
- Then again, I’m a known coward.
- Chappell Roan needle-drop time!
- Wait, Lindsay has a teen?
- Two teens?
- And one of them is now…Grandma?
- Sorry…who swapped with whom, exactly?
- I’m deeply confused.
- “My face looks like a Birkin bag that’s been left out in the sun to rot” is a good line, I have to give them that.
- Aw, I’m glad the mom and daughter from the Chinese restaurant in the original film make a cameo, even though their whole plotline was…pretty racist.
- Hot red car alert!
- Was that…Meghann Fahy?
- I’m still trying to piece this together. So the teens swapped bodies with the adults?
- Why are there two teens? That just seems like confusing writing.
- Am I bad at math, or does this make absolutely no sense?
- Both?
- Where the hell is Chad Michael Murray?
- Oop, spoke too soon, there he is, slowly removing a motorcycle helmet.
- All right, this cameo won me back over.
- H-O-T-T-O-G-O, indeed!
