Freakier Friday has been the surprise of the summer as a slightly superfluous sequel to a fondly remembered noughties movie that genuinely impressed me.

Quite frankly, it’s far better than it has any right to be.

It had all the potential to be one of the many unnecessary follow-up films pumped out by Hollywood nowadays, a lazy cash grab attempting to capitalise on nostalgia and the carefully plotted comeback of its leading lady, Lindsay Lohan, after her heyday of films as a teen star including 2003’s Freaky Friday.

But instead, almost against the odds, it triumphs as a feel-good, genuinely funny movie that’s heavy on the self-awareness and balances fan service with a decent screenplay.

A lot of its success is also down to reuniting Jamie Lee Curtis and Lohan onscreen as a mother-daught

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