{"id":132593,"date":"2025-08-09T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132593\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:28:10","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-calls-freakier-friday-critic-a-tad-harsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132593\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis Calls &#8216;Freakier Friday&#8217; Critic &#8220;A Tad Harsh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough actors are often advised not to read the reviews, one critic\u2019s takedown of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/freakier-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Freakier Friday<\/a> caught <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jamie-lee-curtis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a>\u2018 attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Oscar winner, who reprises her role as Tess Coleman, recently called out Time critic Stephanie Zacharek for her \u201charsh\u201d review of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\">Disney<\/a> body-swap sequel to 2003\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/freaky-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Freaky Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tQuoting Zacharek\u2019s review, the outlet captioned an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNGnHVyScFC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> on Friday, \u201cNo one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003\u2019s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy Freaky Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/freakier-friday-review-lindsay-lohan-jamie-lee-curtis-1236477451\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Freakier-Friday.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in a scene from the movie Freakier Friday\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/box-office-weapons-freakier-friday-1236482095\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Weapons-and-Freakier-Friday-.jpg\" alt=\"'Weapons' and 'Freakier Friday' box office\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSEEMS a TAD HARSH. SOME people LOVE it. Me being one,\u201d wrote Curtis in a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite Zacharek\u2019s review, Freakier Friday is Certified Fresh with a 73% review average and 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/freakier_friday\">on track for a $30M-$32M opening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-09-at-11.47.39\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"756\" width=\"670\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite in Freakier Friday, which sees Tess\u2019 daughter Anna Coleman (Lohan) facing challenges with her own blended family, 20 years after mother and daughter switched places. Now, the pair finds themselves swapped with Anna\u2019s daughter Harper (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julia-butters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Julia Butters<\/a>) and future stepdaughter Lily (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sophia-hammons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sophia Hammons<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although actors are often advised not to read the reviews, one critic\u2019s takedown of Freakier Friday caught Jamie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,49903,15460,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-132593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-freakier-friday","10":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000698819175861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}