It’s super easy and generally misguided to use a new movie’s trailer against whatever movie it’s selling, even if the trailer is a rarity when it does not give away 96% of the storyline.

I mention this because the trailer for Disney’s rebooted, double-down edition of its “Freaky Friday” property, this one called “Freakier Friday” and reuniting Jamie Lee Curtis with Lindsay Lohan, is a really good trailer. It does its job. It sharpens the comic beats so that jokes and sight gags come off, well, funny.

The movie itself has a frustrating amount of trouble with that part. On the other hand: The happy ending meets your emotional needs with the promise that even an uneasily blended Los Angeles family, struggling but rich-adjacent and living a specific kind of starry, sunny existence, can iro

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