The chief weakness of ‘’Freakier Friday’’ — which brings Curtis and Lohan back for an amiable, often joyful and certainly chaotic reunion — is that while it hews overl

"Freakier Friday," a sequel to the 2003 film "Freaky Friday," will be released in theaters on Friday, Aug. 8, after a Los Angeles premiere on July 22. The 2003 movie is based on the 1972 novel of the same name, which has been adapted across film, TV and theater.

For a generation of millennials and their moms, Freaky Friday was it, the ultimate. The beloved body swap comedy, which has been remade several times since 1976’s rendition starring Jodie Foster, tapped into the zeitgeist with its 2003 iteration starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.