Tl;dr Don't watch it except maybe as babysitting for your 6 yr olds (and even then there's so many better movies they could watch).
I tried, I really tried, but this movie is so dumb and unfunny I couldn't make it through. Had to bow out about an hour in.
In case anyone doesn't know what the movie is about: It's Freaky Friday: Family Edition. Instead of just the mom and daughter switching bodies, the son and father switch as well, how original!
The plot is thus derivative.
The characters are ridiculous, the son is apparently a genius who regularly gives advice to Elon Musk. The daughter is a soccer prodigy. Because a story like this couldn't possibly work with normal teenage kids...
The humor is Kindergarten level: either the adults getting stuck in or on objects, or a dog peeing where it shouldn't pee, or "I was born in 2008, I don't know what Star Wars is", I'm guessing this movie takes place in the Netflix Cinmatic Universe where only Netflix exicsts as a streaming service (and they don't have the rights to Star Wars).
The movie is just really really dumb, the body switch is triggered by some planetary alignment and when the characters look through a large telescope the planets are literally lined up right next to each other, cause the AI who wrote this was clearly instructed to write at a 6 yr olds level.
The movie constantly has moments like this.
Also Rita Moreno's character is the actual worst.
In the end I gave this movie 3 stars, because I do really like Jennifer Garner and there was one joke that made me laugh.
I tried, I really tried, but this movie is so dumb and unfunny I couldn't make it through. Had to bow out about an hour in.
In case anyone doesn't know what the movie is about: It's Freaky Friday: Family Edition. Instead of just the mom and daughter switching bodies, the son and father switch as well, how original!
The plot is thus derivative.
The characters are ridiculous, the son is apparently a genius who regularly gives advice to Elon Musk. The daughter is a soccer prodigy. Because a story like this couldn't possibly work with normal teenage kids...
The humor is Kindergarten level: either the adults getting stuck in or on objects, or a dog peeing where it shouldn't pee, or "I was born in 2008, I don't know what Star Wars is", I'm guessing this movie takes place in the Netflix Cinmatic Universe where only Netflix exicsts as a streaming service (and they don't have the rights to Star Wars).
The movie is just really really dumb, the body switch is triggered by some planetary alignment and when the characters look through a large telescope the planets are literally lined up right next to each other, cause the AI who wrote this was clearly instructed to write at a 6 yr olds level.
The movie constantly has moments like this.
Also Rita Moreno's character is the actual worst.
In the end I gave this movie 3 stars, because I do really like Jennifer Garner and there was one joke that made me laugh.