Freakier Friday is a follow-up to the original Freaky Friday, which sees mother Tess (Curtis) and daughter Anna ( Lindsay Lohan) swap bodies, which ultimately helps strengthen their relationship. In its sequel, viewers see another body swap, but this time, it adds a multigenerational twist. Chad Michael Murray also returns in the film.

"'No one, as far as we know, actually asked Disney for a sequel to 2003’s buoyant, surprisingly unsyrupy generation-gap comedy 'Freaky Friday,'" writes TIME critic Stephanie Zacharek. Jamie Lee Curtis, who reprised her role of Tess Coleman in the recently released Freakier Friday, took to the comment section of the post and wrote,