Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 57
Unnecessary, unfunny, and generally unwelcome, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son offers more of the same for fans of Martin Lawrence's perplexingly popular series.
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
Unnecessary, unfunny, and generally unwelcome, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son offers more of the same for fans of Martin Lawrence's perplexingly popular series.
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Movie Info
Martin Lawrence reprises the role of FBI agent Malcolm Turner -- aka, undercover grandma Big Momma -- in this installment in the Big Momma's House franchise, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. Malcolm's latest assignment teams him up with his teenage stepson, Trent (Brandon T. Jackson), who unwittingly makes himself a target when he witnesses a murder. In order to keep Trent out of harm's way and solve the case behind the killing that Trent saw, the two have no choice but to go undercover at an
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Cast
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Martin Lawrence
Malcolm Turner, Malcolm... -
Brandon T. Jackson
Trent/Charmaine -
Jessica Lucas
Haley -
Michelle Ang
Mia -
Portia Doubleday
Jasmine -
Emily Rios
Isabelle -
Ana Ortiz
Gail -
Henri Lubatti
Vlad -
Lorenzo Pisoni
Dmitri -
Tony Curran
Chirkoff -
Marc John Jefferies
Rembrandt -
Brandon Gill
Scratch -
Zack Mines
Delante -
Trey Lindsey
TJ -
Ken Jeong
Mailman -
Max Casella
Canetti -
Susan Walters
Mall Mother -
Sherri Shepherd
Beverly Townsend -
Susan Griffiths
Cafeteria Girl #1 -
Brianne Gould
Cafeteria Girl #2 -
Dawntavia Bullard
Cafeteria Girl - Anothe... -
Mari Morrow
Ms. Mercier -
Susie Spear
Art Teacher -
Lily Chambers
Drama Queen #1 -
Jasmine Burke
Drama Queen #2 -
Juliet Kim
Quad Student -
Brian Lafontaine
Crawford -
Ramsey Luke
FBI Agent -
Jazmia Battle
Diva #1 -
Christiani Pitts
Diva #2 -
Faizon Love
Kurtis Kool
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (57) | DVD (1)
Looking back, it's strange to remember that the first two movies were both hits, and that Paul Giamatti and Terrence Howard even saw enough in the premise to sign up for the original. At this point, it's really all just flab.
Top CriticAn assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African-American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.
It seems fair to point out that of all the cross-dressing comedies of recent decades, none has channeled Some Like It Hot quite so thoroughly.
A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.
If Tyler Perry finds liberation in lipstick, Lawrence has become suffocated by Spanx.
Lawrence's gender-bending jokes are played out, and his slapstick is wooden and slow. It's understandable: Clowning around underneath that fat suit must be exhausting. Almost as much as watching it.
The father/stepson angle applies a much-needed Heimlich maneuver to a series that was choking, but it's not enough.
It's frighteningly impressive that a one-note gag has spawned three dreadful films and hundreds of millions of dollars in box office receipts. Wherever will they go next? Big Mommas 3D?
it is likely that this shambles will be the final nail in the coffin of the career of a man once touted as The Next Eddie Murphy.
A mashup of 'Some Like It Hot' (leering rooster-in-the-henhouse voyeurism) and 'Glee' (peppy musical interludes), that, on the plus side, grapples with the potent issue of young black male identity...
If you didn't enjoy the first two movies, don't see this.
I laughed when it was as dumb as it should be. I was bored when it wasn't.
The first one wasn't all that great. The second one I barely remember seeing.
... lame contrivances and stale drag jokes ...
It only escapes a bomb rating because it's more irritating than offensive -- like an ant crawling across a counter top rather than a roach roosting in the cereal box.
I'm no fan of Perry's blunt-force morality comedies, but at least his pseudo-sainted materfamilias is a real character.
It's tempting to call Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son a huge waste of talent, but considering the talent involved, that doesn't seem like much of a waste.
Oh, come on now! Knock it off!
John Whitesell, who helmed BM2, keeps the gender-flipping gags firing with a sense of seriousness that seems blind to the inanity of the granny-panty flimsy plot.
It's a true rubber-necker's delight, a comedy so inconceivably tacky that it will make you question whether or not you're laughing at the film or with it.
This is number three and the bloom is off the rose. Martin leave the drag to Tyler Perry and "Madea."
What's funnier than a black dude in drag? How about two black dudes in drag?
Can there really be a comparative and a superlative for "unfunny"? It doesn't make sense to describe this witless, embarrassing third film in the Big Momma franchise as "the unfunniest".
As magical as ever.
Aside from providing the inspiration for 30 Rock's fake Tracy Jordan movie Honky Grandma Be Trippin', it's hard to see the value of this sporadic Martin Lawrence-wears-a-fat-suit-and-a-dress saga.
Audience Reviews for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Super Reviewer
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- Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: Now I know why they call it the Nutcracker.
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- Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: You'd better change your voice before you start scaring the girls.
- Trent/Charmaine: Oh how about this? Swing low...Swing AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! [screeching]
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- Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: Big Momma take orders from nobody...Nobody!
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- Kurtis Kool: Amen!
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- Cafeteria Girl - Another Girl: More like Mary J. Buldge.
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- Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: I'm the new house momma.
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Foreign Titles
- Big Mama´s Haus - Die doppelte Portion (DE)
- Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son (CA)
