Jamie Lee Curtis is defending “Freakier Friday.”
The Oscar winner, 66, responded to Time magazine’s negative review of her and Lindsay Lohan’s body-swapping sequel.
An excerpt of the review that was posted to Instagram on Friday read, “No one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003’s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy ‘Freaky Friday.’”
The review also called out the film’s “ugly costumes” and “humiliating scenarios,” adding, “this is a sequel with the sole purpose of cashing in on the fondness people have for the original movie and nothing more.”
Curtis reacted to the review by commenting, “SEEMS a TAD HARSH. SOME people LOVE it. Me being one.”
Her comment got over 17,000 likes as hundreds of fans responded with supportive messages.
“As long as you and Lindsay were happy making it and with it, I’m guaranteed it’s iconic and a great watch,” one fan said.
“We all asked for it and we all love it,” a different fan wrote.
Someone else responded, “We can’t wait to see it! People are so rude!”
“You should make part 3 to trigger Time magazine,” another fan said.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra, “Freakier Friday came out in theaters Friday and is a follow-up to Disney’s 2003 comedy, in which mother-daughter duo Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) swap bodies.
The sequel features a four-way swap that involves Anna’s daughter (Julia Butters) and her soon-to-be-stepdaughter (Sophia Hammons).
Along with Curtis and Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Rosalind Chao, Ryan Malgarini, Stephen Tobolowsky and Lucille Soong returned for the sequel.
On Rotten Tomatoes, “Freakier Friday” has a 73% approval score from critis and a 93% approval score from the audience.
The Post’s critic Johnny Oleksinski gave the sequel 2.5 stars and called Curtis and Lohan “the main attractions” of the film.
“‘Freakier’ functions mostly as a nostalgia trip for 30-something ticket-buyers who can now legally enjoy a margarita,” Oleksinski wrote. “But while massaging millennials, the movie also has a good time slinging mud at Gen Z.”
During a recent interview with ABC 7, Curtis explained how she played a big part in getting the sequel made.
“I kept saying, ‘Well, you know what? We can’t make a sequel until Lindsay’s old enough to have a teenager,’” the actress said. “They went, ‘Jamie, she’s 35.’ I was like, ‘She’s not 35!’ They were like, ‘She’s 35.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, sure! She could’ve had a baby at 20! Bob Iger!’”
“So when I got home, I called Bob and we talked about it, and now we’re here,” she added.
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