Jamie Lee Curtis is not afraid to let critics know what she thinks of their reviews.
Curtis recently starred in “Freakier Friday,” the sequel to her 2003 body-swap comedy “Freaky Friday.” The film sees her reprise the role of Tess Coleman alongside her original co-star and on-screen daughter, Lindsay Lohan. In a post on Instagram on Friday, Time shared an excerpt from Stephanie Zacharek’s review of the film.
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In the review, she wrote, “No one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003’s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy ‘Freaky Friday.’”
Curtis responded by commenting on the post, “SEEMS a TAD HARSH. SOME people LOVE it. Me being one.”
It seems Zacharek is in the minority with her negative review. “Freakier Friday” sits at a 73% and 94% audience score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The film is also performing well at the box office, grossing $12.7 million on Friday with a projected three-day gross of $27 to $30 million.
“Freakier Friday” takes place decades after the original. Anna now has her own daughter (Julia Butters) and a soon-to-be stepdaughter (Sophia Hammons). As she attempts to navigate the struggles of merging her two families, Anna, her mother Tess, her daughter and her stepdaughter get tangled in a four-way body swap.
Appearing alongside Lohan, Curtis, Butters and Hammons are Manny Jacinto, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. Nisha Ganatra directed the film with a script from Jordan Weiss, Elyse Hollander and Mary Rodgers.
In his review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman was keen on the long-awaited sequel, writing that the film nailed the “slapstick psychology” of the body-swapping genre with “stodgy aplomb.”
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