“Freaky Friday” is an awful lot like “The Parent Trap” in its style of jokes and set-ups; the difference is that this film is actually pretty darn amusing. This movie takes a premise I’ve seen done countless times but does it with a real nice comedic touch without making it seem really tacky or vulgar.

In “Freaky Friday”, schoolgirl Annabelle (Jodie Foster “Silence of the Lambs”, “Flightplan”) and her mother Ellen (Barbara Harris “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”) mysteriously swap bodies one Friday the 13th after both say they’d like to be one another for a day. What follows is silly but so very enjoyable as the film utilises just about every gag you could want.

Foster and Harris do a good job both before and after the switch and the writers have really nailed the different personas, except for when Foster is still playing the kid as some of the dialog seemed a little too sophisticated for your average girl of 13. The only other real shame is that there are not lots of interesting side characters and most of them do just fade into the background as the carnage involving exploding typewriters and a cars splitting in half during pursuit takes control.

“Freaky Friday” kept me entertained because I like the fact that it just went with it for lots of the gags and did just stick to lots and lots of conversation. The funniest moment is either the hockey match or the water-skiing, I can’t decide but they are both very cleverly done. As a body-swapping movie, I think the reason why this works is because they’re both female as I find most body-swapping between characters of different genders tends to lead to predictable and generally undesirable jokes. While this certainly isn’t an amazing film or any comedic classic, I really did like “Freaky Friday” and I think you will to.