Reviewer's Rating 3 out of 5
Freaky Friday DVD (2003)

Jamie Lee Curtis and bright young talent Lindsay Lohan head up this "conventional but pleasantly cosy remake of the 1976 Jodie Foster body-swap comedy." The DVD release offers few decent extra features, but it's good fun - just like the movie.

Cast Of Charmers

Regular DVD watchers will be familiar with sickly featurettes that try to show off a cast that are meant to be as wacky as the comedy they're in. In fact, they're anything but. Little behind-the-scenes efforts like Backstage Pass With Lindsay Lohan are no less slight in content, but work in this case because everyone featured comes across as infectiously funny.

Freaky Friday DVD screengrab

All Grown Up

Jamie Lee Curtis easily gets the best PR, especially with the blooper reel where she seems to be having a ball. All very inconsequential, but this is a fun disc that should have made greater capital of the stars on offer with more extra features. In fact what's on offer will leave you wanting more - especially from Jamie Lee Curtis.

EXTRA FEATURES

  • Backstage Pass With Lindsay Lohan
  • Deleted scene
  • Pinkslip Rocks uncut music footage
  • Alternate endings (three short variations)
  • Two music videos
  • Freaky Bloopers (save until last)
  • This DVD was reviewed on a JVC XV-N5 DVD player.

    Technical Information

    REGION SOUND MENUS RATIO
    2 Dolby Digital 5.1 Animated, with music 1.85:1 (anamorphic)
    CHAPTERS SUBTITLES AUDIO TRACKS
    12 English, Danish, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish English, Spanish
    CAPTIONS EXTRAS SUBTITLES CERTIFICATE
    English None of the special features come with subtitles PG

    End Credits

    Director: Mark S Waters

    Writer: Heather Hach, Leslie Dixon

    Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Harold Gould

    Genre: Comedy, Family

    Length: 97 minutes

    Cinema: 19 December 2003

    DVD: 26 April 2004

    Country: USA