History YMMV / FreakyFriday2003

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: “Take Me Away”.

* EthnicScrappy: Pei-Pei's characterization involves speaking in broken English and being presented as an annoying GenkiGirl - not to mention Tess refers to "Asian voodoo", which would be confusing African voodoo with Asian practices (the closest Chinese equivalent would probably be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_shamanism Wuism]]). Still, Rosalind Chao does at least make her funny, and she does get a moment where she chews her mother out for causing the plot in the first place. Tellingly the musical, which takes more than a few cues from this movie, doesn't include Pei-Pei or her mother.

%%** Creator/LindsayLohan's mother telling her to "make good choices."

* AwesomeMusic: “Take Me Away”.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: A lot of critics felt that Jamie Lee Curtis had been fading out of the limelight, with her most notable previous credit being ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' (which was banking on ''Halloween'' nostalgia). With this film, she went in a completely different direction to her normal roles and impressed everyone with her over-the-top antics.

* WTHCastingAgency: The actors playing Mr. Bates and Evan (Stephen Tobolowsky and Willie Garson respectively) look so similar in appearance, down to baldness pattern and glasses that it could be a bit confusing for first-time viewers.

** It's subtly implied that Pei-Pei has made other people who are arguing switch bodies before. Cue the fanfic writers.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The ending of the movie has Harry and Grandpa fighting and Pei-Pei giving them a fortune cookie. This could've been a perfect opportunity for a HereWeGoAgain! ending. But nope. StatusQuoIsGod.

** Creator/LindsayLohan's mother telling her to "make good choices."

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Lindsay Lohan trained for over a year to play the guitar for this movie. Jamie Lee Curtis was also coached on how to play the guitar for her scene.

** Knowing that it's Gibbs from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' playing Ryan, when Mark Harmon talks, you listen. That's not getting into Curtis' role in the aforementioned show as Dr. '''Ryan''', who also happens to be a psychologist. [[HarsherInHindsight On the other hand]], Gibbs and Ryan's story didn't have as happy an ending as Tess and her Ryan's.

** Chad Michael Murray also starred as the love interest in ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', opposite Lindsay Lohan's rival Hilary Duff - who had really lobbied for the part of Anna in this. For bonus points, Creator/JulieGonzalo plays the AlphaBitch and makes the main character's life hell in both films.

** Lindsay Lohan being terrorized by an AlphaBitch is also amusing in light of her next film with Mark Waters - the famous ''Film/MeanGirls'', featuring Lindsay's character devoting the run-time to BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch.

* FanPreferredCutContent: Many fans of the film feel that the DeletedScene in which Tess punches Stacy in the face, breaking her nose in the process should've been kept in the film, given that it shows Stacy geting her comeuppance.

* JerkassWoobie: Anna. She's abrasive, rude, and is always at odds with her mother, brother, and her mother's fiancee despite the fact that he wants her to like him. But it's made clear that the reason she's the way she is due to bullies, a teacher that hates her just because [[spoiler: her mother snubbed him ''years ago in high school'']] and she's still hurt by the loss of her father.

* StoicWoobie: You end up feeling very sorry for Ryan throughout the whole film, considering Anna's utter indifference to him despite his attempts to connect with her. And when the switch happens, he spends the whole day suddenly having his fiance acting cold towards him. But he doesn't complain or even talks about it until his little speech towards the end.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: A lot of critics felt that Jamie Lee Curtis had been fading out of the limelight, with her most notable previous credit being ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' (which was banking on ''Halloween'' nostalgia). With this film, she went in a completely different direction to her normal roles and impressed everyone with her over-the-top antics that proved ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** Creator/LindsayLohan's mother telling her to "make good choices."
** Anna-in-Tess's talk show appearance has the speech about adults acting immaturely - "and quality time with your kids? Quit bugging them, leave them alone, they like it" - considering Lindsay Lohan's own very public falling out with her mother.

** Lindsay Lohan's mother worried about other people being bad influences on her...

* AdaptationDisplacement: Viewers not old enough to remember the 1976 movie, much less the original book, probably consider this the definitive version of the story. SocietyMarchesOn contributed to this displacement, as this version allowed the mother to have a job, leading to more possibilities for jokes the original didn't get to make due to the mother in that version simply being a housewife. This is even the second remake of the story, another being a MadeForTVMovie in 1995.

* TearJerker: Anna-in-Tess's speech at the rehearsal dinner, where she speaks about her father and how the loss affected them. Her voice breaks as she says "he was a really great dad".