Ok you are so going to moan and complain about this review because of the amount of time I’ve spent moaning about sequels and remakes in this list then I have a remake this high in my list well I say high it’s still in the worst 100 list of those on this list and I think it may well be because of the original that this version scores so high compared to others in this list. This version was released in 2003 which really doesn’t seem that long ago (but it was!) and starred Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ryan Malgarini, Christina Vidal, Haley Hudson, Rosalind Chao, Lucille Soong, Julie Gonzalo, Willie Garson, Dina Waters, Cayden Boyd & Christopher Guest. It follows a similar story from the 1976 movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, which apparently was the second version of the story from Disney which means that this is the third adaptation of the story.
The story follows a single mother and daughter that swap spirits so the mother inhabits the daughter’s body and vice versa. You probably have enough there if you wish to skip to the next paragraph. If not, you can just imagine the high jinks these two get up to with a prudish mother in the body of one of the cool girls at the school and playing guitar in a band called Pink Slip as well! She has typical young person issues with sibling rivalry, teachers hating her, evil battle rival at school whilst trying to balance the social life she also has a crush on an older boy. With mother overworked and dealing with the kid’s whist a blossoming potential new man maybe on the horizon. Well you can image the rest of the story yourself as these two fish out of water scenarios continue with the two eventually realising what the other is trying to cope with brings them closer together which will resolve all their problems.
It was well received at the box office making over $110m from a $20m budget and Disney have subsequently turned the story into a stage show which no one has ever heard about. So, why does this horror buff like this film well this goes back WAY back into my own childhood with Jodie and Barbara in each other’s bodies as it were. Battling to cope with the day of being completely out of their depths trying to get through the day so this movie helped me relive the old movie but this movie definitely stands on its own and is a good film to enjoy. My daughter loved it and we could actually watch this one together in fact we use to watch this as family.
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