These three inter-related movies are funny fantasy movies I liked myself. It is obviously a subjective opinion, it is based on my taste which is not as out of place as it sometimes seems. They are connected in ways you’ll discover by reading this article. If you already watched them, you will certainly figure out what this is about.
Freaky Friday – Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan
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Freaky Friday
First of them is Freaky Friday (2003), directed by Mark Waters. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, and it is one of the finest comedies made that year. It was better than Old School, Bruce Almighty, School of Rock, Love Actually (not a comedy per se), American Wedding, all of them released in 2003, of course.
Jamie Lee Curtis is just perfect as a teenage girl’s mother. She is sophisticated and not perfectly tuned to her daughter’s feelings and unavoidable changes in life and hormones, even being a professional shrink. Lindsay Lohan is the sixteen-seventeen years old daughter who strongly feels misunderstood by her busy mother. The mother plans to marry after only three years of being widowed. Even if it doesn’t quite matter, there is a growing tension between mother and daughter. The existence of a rascal smaller brother doesn’t help either.
Freaky Friday – Lindsay Lohan, Chad Michael Murray
So, now appears the first connecting element. They experience a body-swap, created by reading two identical fortune cookies. How both of them act in their reversed roles is hilarious.
The mother learns it’s not easy to be a teenager nowadays, and the girl suddenly has a lot of money because she got the purse. Here, the mother is the one who has to learn something essential. Spoiler! Mother finally starts to consider her daughter an important and self-functioning human being.
It’s a Boy Girl Thing
The second movie is It’s a Boy Girl Thing (2006), where the common element is provided by the body-swap between two neighbors, cheerfully played by Samaire Armstrong and Kevin Zegers. The start by almost hating each other, having different backgrounds, tastes, and aspirations. I said “almost” because an indefinite element of attraction was there from the beginning. They are not only next door neighbors, they attend the same high school, and they also have a lot of common classes.
It’s a Boy Girl Thing – Samaire Armstrong, Kevin Zegers
An Aztec statue in a museum they visited during a history class trigged their body swap. In this way, they learned together and separately that life isn’t easy, even if their paths were apparently foreordained by their upbringing. Spoiler!!! As you may guess, they fall in love.
Just My Luck
The third movie is Just My Luck (2006), directed by Donald Petrie. This one has common elements with both the above movies, only it’s not a body swap, but a luck swap from one character to another. It’s not a curse, it’s not happening as a lesson, even if there are some things to learn on the way. This is a comedy starring Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, AND Samaire Armstrong. Lohan wasn’t yet arrested for DUI and has not committed any car accident. This is the first movie where I have noticed Chris Pine.
Just My Luck – Bree Turner, Samaire Armstrong, Lindsay Lohan
Lohan started here as the luckiest girl in the world, what she touched became instantly gold; when she wishes something, the gods graciously obey. She can sell everything to anyone.
Pine is the opposite, he’s the unluckiest guy you ever met; when he goes out, the tempests start, he’s arrested, he hurts himself, and so on. He needs just a bit of luck for his life to change.
Just My Luck – Lindsay Lohan with Chris Pine
So, fate brings these two guys face to face and a change of luck will happen! Spoiler! They eventually fall in love.
I really hope you have enjoyed all these three fantastic comedies. You don’t have to be a part of the awful plot against Lindsay Lohan. The nasty press wrote bad of her even when she acted right. If you haven’t watched yet these funny fantasy movies, now it is the proper time. You’ll thank me.
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