The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch (“A dad joke of a movie,” according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...

Freakier Friday has been a massive hit on streaming since it arrived on Disney+, and this hilarious legacy sequel deserves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each of these 7 body swap movies involve someone switching bodies with someone else — or a with a different-aged version of ...

This week brings a sequel 22 years in the making, “Freakier Friday.” The 2003 “Freaky Friday” was itself a remake of a 1976 Disney comedy, and in between, there was a 1995 TV movie version. Along the ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

One of the tried-and-true plot devices in all of storytelling is the idea of body switching. It's when two characters with opposite personalities switch bodies and then have to cope with what it's ...

Body swap and time travel movies only raise more questions. The trope is always similar, with having to learn a niche lesson.

Most of the best-known body-swapping movies are comedies, and many of those follow the age-gap pattern of Freaky Friday, a 1976 adaptation of the Mary Rodgers’ YA novel where a mother and daughter ...