Friday gets freakier.
What can be said that we didn’t all say in the lead up to this?
There was no need for this film, there was some junk food like appeal to it, with it being warming and hitting with some nostalgia and a little comedy here and there, however, there is nothing of substance nothing that makes you go ‘ah that’s why they need to make this’.
For a contemporary Disney film there was a lot less divisive nonsense than I was expecting, for example I thought for sure one of the characters would be trans gender and then you would have Lohan or Curtis’s character go into that characters body in order to understand the experience of trans people. Yet Disney managed to hold back on that, the closest they go to it is during an early section of the film wherein there is a food fight and a kid is carrying around a rainbow pride flag and manages to get it into every shot.
I think they would be hard-pressed to do a third film as there really isn’t much more they can do with this franchise in terms of the body swapping gimmick, though I am sure they could find a way if this film made them enough money.
Overall, whilst there is some comforting nostalgia here, it ultimately feels like a desperate cash grab.
2/5
Pros.
It is funny
There is some nostalgia to be had
Cons.
It doesn’t justify its existence
It comes off as a little desperate
Disney being Disney
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