Top Comedy Movie from the ’90s Dominates Disney+ Streaming Charts
a to see the sequel, which has both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprising their roles as the body-switching mother-daughter duo.
In the sequel, Freakier Friday, Curtis’s character helps Lohan’s character care for her teenage daughter Harper, played by Julia Butters, while balancing career, motherhood, and an impending marriage to Eric, played by Manny Jacinto. The plot takes a twist when the quartet has their palms read at Anna’s bachelorette party, and wake up the next morning to discover that Anna and Tess are now Harper and Lily, and vice versa. The sequel promises to up the ante from the original and has already received positive reviews, with Deadline reporting that it is set to have a successful opening weekend at the box office.
It seems that viewers can’t get enough of Lindsay Lohan, as another one of her beloved films, The Parent Trap, is also climbing Disney+’s most-watched charts. The Parent Trap, which premiered in 1998, stars Lohan as long-lost twins Hallie and Annie who reunite at summer camp and switch places to bring their estranged parents back together. Directed by Nancy Meyers, the film not only launched Lohan as a star but has since become a millennial classic.
Both Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap are remakes of older films from the 60s and 70s. Their popularity, along with the success of Freakier Friday, shows that sequels and remakes can work when they resonate with the audience watching them. This resurgence also points to Lohan’s comeback in mainstream media, as she has returned to acting and proved her talent in recent Netflix Original films.
Freakier Friday is now playing in theaters, and it seems like this is just the beginning of Lindsay Lohan’s return to the spotlight.