Jamie Lee Curtis, left, and Lindsay Lohan in “Freakier Friday.” (Glen Wilson/Disney)

Review by Ty Burr (2.5 stars)

More frantic than funny but sweet in its plastic Disney way, “Freakier Friday” will be a welcome and effective date movie for mothers, daughters, grandmothers and anyone else who had the 2003 “Freaky Friday” on heavy DVD rotation with “Mean Girls” in the first years of the new millennium. All other audiences are warned away, including aging boomers nostalgic for the 1976 Jodie Foster-Barbara Harris original film or Mary Rodgers’s 1972 book. Directed by Nisha Ganatra (“Late Night,” “The High Note”), the new sequel tries to double the pleasure of the “Freaky Friday” concept, but it only fitfully doubles the fun. PAID PROMOTED STORIES

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