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on 9/2/2017
1976
on 9/15/2017
I just watched both for the first time and thought each was delightful, but I'm going to have to give it to the remake for having a stronger emotional through line and less cringeworthy male characters—I wanted Barbara Harris to divorce Sean Astin's sexist domineering ass at the end of the 1976 film. I don't like the remake's introduction of token Magical Asians, though, and I thought the younger brother character was less stereotypical in the original. Great performances from the leading actresses in both films.
on 7/23/2023
The remake is actually better, oddly enough. Watching Freaky Friday (2003), I was struck again (as I did when watching Mean Girls) how good Lindsey Lohan really was. Not just un-bad, but she brings real nuance to her role as a 35 year old in a teen's body. Barbara Harris vs Jamie Lee Curtis is essentially a wash, but Lohan's performance is genuinely better than Foster's. It also helped that the last act of the remake wasn't the silly sitcom-like finale of the original. This is a remake that tops the original, and it's not all that close.