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Movie Review: Freakier Friday

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The new movie “Freakier Friday”, the sequel to “Freaky Friday” released in 2003, is one of those bad movies that you are embarrassed to tell people you actually saw. I only saw this movie because the theater for the film I wanted to see had a broken projector, so I sat through this horrendous waste of two hours for this blog.

This entire story about people who swap bodies was so poorly done that for most of the movie, you are trying to figure out who swapped into who, all along hoping that this nightmare would be over soon. There is a series of filler side stories, entirely designed to make this movie last two hours, where the goal should have been to end this mess in 80 minutes.

Freakier Friday stars the same two main actors from the previous movie, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as Tess Coleman and Anna Coleman, and two new characters who are also swapped, Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons, who play Harper Coleman and Lily Reyes. After the initial screaming scene where they all found out they were swapped, it seemed that the swapping after effects were ignored in favor of other stories to fill out the two hours. It’s hard to believe that a bad movie from 2003 was greenlit for a sequel 22 years later. With millions of dollars at stake, what were the producers thinking with this disaster?

The Rotten Tomatoes average rating of 73% is way too high with my rating 10% and a run from this mess at all costs recommendation.


Movie Review: The Naked Gun

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There have been three previous Naked Gun movies made; the last one, “Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult,” was released in 1994. These movies are supposed to be ridiculous and stupid. The problem with the latest reboot, “The Naked Gun”, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr, is that it is too stupid, too over-the-top, and ridiculous. Towards the end of these two hours, the whole experience becomes far more annoying than it is funny. I found this experience similar to the Fast and Furious franchise, which, over time, gave us special effects and stunts that were far more idiotic than they needed to be. The concept of “less is more” makes sense for movies like these, when overkill can ruin the entire experience.

The new movie “The Naked Gun” also stars Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport, who becomes involved after a series of stupid crimes with Drebin. Early in the movie, some of the stupid slapstick was working, but the quality of the sight gags started to degrade midway through this mostly unfunny film. The positive news is that it was good to see Liam Neeson in a major mainstream movie for the first time in many years since the last of the Taken movies was released in 2014. Neeson’s career has been mired in in and out of the theater B movies for about a decade.

This is also a major movie appearance for Pamela Andersonon, who has been experiencing a career resurgence since last year’s “The Last Showgirl” (2024). Anderson was good in her role, which consisted mostly of insane slapstick and word comedy like “take a chair”, where her character drags a chair out of the police department. A scene like this might be amusing once or twice, but throughout an entire two-hour movie, it gets old around the 3rd time.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 90% are about as insane and ridiculous as this movie, which violates the comedy movie rule of an unfunny film calling itself a comedy. This movie is not funny, and I do not recommend it, with a rating of 50%, which is generous.

Netflix Movie Review: Happy Gilmore 2

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The sequel to “Happy Gilmore” (1996), this time around, is on Netflix, called “Happy Gilmore 2”. As with the original movie, this one is also supposed to be a comedy. For a movie comedy, why lead off the story with the sight of a flying golf ball hitting Happy’s wife, Virginia, played by Julie Bowen, in the head, killing her instantly? It’s hard to understand how two screenwriters, one of them Adam Sandler, would think that the start of this movie, which includes death and huge financial loss, would be considered funny by anyone. What the hell were they thinking?

Following his wife’s death, Happy suffers extreme financial loss. He has 4 sons and a daughter, Vienna, played by Sandler’s daughter Sunny. Adding to Happy’s many problems is that Vienna has been invited to attend a Ballet company in Paris, France, that costs 75K a year. To make money, Happy has to start from the bottom of the Golf profession, playing with low-level players on a very bad golf course. The best parts of both movies have always been the insane golf shots and the visuals of long drives down the fairway, with some other moderately funny physical comedy scenes. There are several flashbacks in this story, showing scenes from the original Happy Gilmore, to remind the audience of characters and situations from 29 years ago.

Due to a new crazy version of Golf, Happy Gilmore very quickly rises to the top of the sport of Golf (only in the movies) and has a chance to make enough money to pay for his daughter’s Ballet and dig himself out of being completely broke. The ending that has many scenes of the new version of Golf falls flat and results in a very unsatisfying ending to this mostly bad and surprisingly dark, unfunny movie.

There are also cameos of many long-retired gold greats, including Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino Jack Nicklaus, Fred Couples, Nick Faldo, Corey Pavin, and John Daly, who are more of a distraction and in no way save this film.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie are mostly correct 65%, with my rating only 50% and a vote to miss this unfunny, too dark comedy movie.