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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)

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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.

10

Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9

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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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

PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Comedy

Matthew Fogel

Jun 14, 2011

$37.9M

20th Century Fox

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Critic Reviews for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

All Critics (61) | Top Critics (10) | 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.

November 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Tom Russo
Boston Globe
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An 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.

February 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Bruce Demara
Toronto Star
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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.

February 18, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (26)
Mike Hale
New York Times
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A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.

February 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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If Tyler Perry finds liberation in lipstick, Lawrence has become suffocated by Spanx.

February 18, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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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.

February 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Adam Markovitz
Entertainment Weekly
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The father/stepson angle applies a much-needed Heimlich maneuver to a series that was choking, but it's not enough.

May 4, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

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?

December 31, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment
Shaun Munro
What Culture

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.

September 1, 2011 Full Review Source: The National | Comment
James Luxford
The National

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...

May 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Comment
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

If you didn't enjoy the first two movies, don't see this.

May 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Grae Drake
Movies.com

I laughed when it was as dumb as it should be. I was bored when it wasn't.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Dave White
Movies.com

The first one wasn't all that great. The second one I barely remember seeing.

March 25, 2011 Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Comment
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

... lame contrivances and stale drag jokes ...

March 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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.

February 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | Comment (1)
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

I'm no fan of Perry's blunt-force morality comedies, but at least his pseudo-sainted materfamilias is a real character.

February 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

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.

February 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comments (2)
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Oh, come on now! Knock it off!

February 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Reno News and Review | Comment
Bob Grimm
Reno News and Review

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.

February 23, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix

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.

February 23, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Simon Abrams
Slant Magazine

This is number three and the bloom is off the rose. Martin leave the drag to Tyler Perry and "Madea."

February 22, 2011 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | Comment
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

What's funnier than a black dude in drag? How about two black dudes in drag?

February 22, 2011 Full Review Source: TheLoop21.com | Comments (11)
Kam Williams
TheLoop21.com

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".

February 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Philip French
Guardian [UK]

As magical as ever.

February 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Catherine Bray
Film4
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March 27, 2011
EightThirty
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Not funny. It was hella irritating. Damn why do they try so hard to be funny?! One star for the songs.

January 24, 2011
3niR
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son Quotes

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    1. Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: You'd better change your voice before you start scaring the girls.
    2. Trent/Charmaine: Oh how about this? Swing low...Swing AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! [screeching]
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (3 months ago)
    1. Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: Big Momma take orders from nobody...Nobody!
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (3 months ago)
    1. Kurtis Kool: Amen!
    – Submitted by Anthony A (6 months ago)
    1. Cafeteria Girl - Another Girl: More like Mary J. Buldge.
    – Submitted by Dawntavia B (11 months ago)
    1. Malcolm Turner/Big Momma: I'm the new house momma.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Big Mama´s Haus - Die doppelte Portion (DE)
  • Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son (CA)
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