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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freakier Friday Credit – Courtesy of Disney<\/em><\/p>\n N<\/span>o one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003\u2019s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy Freaky Friday<\/a>,<\/em> in which Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> and Lindsay Lohan<\/a>\u2014one a seasoned actress with superb comic timing, the other a teenage star poised, it seemed, for a skyrocketing career\u2014played a mother-daughter duo who mystically swap bodies, and lives, for one day. But more than 20 years later, we\u2019ve got one: in Freakier Friday, <\/em>Curtis and Lohan return in the same roles. Curtis\u2019 Tess is still a psychologist, only now she\u2019s dabbling in podcasts. Lohan\u2019s Anna has given up a career as a rock star to raise a child, now a teenager, on her own. That daughter, Harper (Julia Butters<\/a>), is much more interested in surfing than in hanging out with her mom. But the person she really despises is her new stepsister-to-be, Lily (Sophia Hammons), a princessy student who\u2019s come to Los Angeles from London and lords her alleged classiness over everyone.<\/p>\n In Freakier Friday,<\/em> the mind-body switcheroo goes four ways, and more is less. Harper and Lily find their bodies have been taken over by Tess and Anna: The older women can stuff their faces with whatever they want, with no ill after-effects! They can ride scooters! And the teenagers are mortified to learn that they\u2019re trapped in adult bodies\u2014and one of those adults is actually a senior citizen. Lohan, a gifted actor whose career has had some shaky turns, is left to build a performance on her costumes, an assortment of allegedly kicky but in reality horrifically ugly teenage-girl getups. Curtis fares even worse: she’s more good-natured than she needs to be about the movie’s adult-diaper gags and jokes referencing the frequency with which old people tend to pass gas.<\/p>\n