Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Name: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Genre: Comedy
Released: February 18, 2011
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 22
Cast: Brandon T. Jackson, Martin Lawrence

2011

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: February 18, 2011 | PG-13

Starring: Brandon T. Jackson, Martin Lawrence

Summary: Big Momma is back - and this time he has big backup: his teenage stepson Trent. Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner and as Turner’s deep-cover alter-ego Big Momma. Turner is joined by Trent, as they go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and as hefty coedBig Momma is back - and this time he has big backup: his teenage stepson Trent. Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner and as Turner’s deep-cover alter-ego Big Momma. Turner is joined by Trent, as they go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and as hefty coed Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Director: John Whitesell

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 107 min

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Movieline Michelle Orange

Feb 18, 2011

It goes down like a canned but genial '80s comedy: Without fanfare or much nutrition; part of your balanced breakfast. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Feb 18, 2011

Kind of a drag when it resorts to frantic slapstick and tired action-comedy tropes, but modestly engaging during stretches that suggest the project would have worked better as an exuberant musical. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Feb 19, 2011

Hilariously horrible when it isn't just plain awful. Read full review

Roger Moore

Feb 18, 2011

A humorless mashup of "White Chicks" and "Glee." Read full review

Keith Phipps

Feb 19, 2011

Star Martin Lawrence, now the sole remaining element from the original "Big Momma's House" 11 years ago, looks pretty tired both in and out of makeup here. Read full review

Tom Russo

Feb 19, 2011

Fresh or not, creatively merited or not, here it comes: the third installment of Martin Lawrence's big, dopey franchise. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine John P. McCarthy

Feb 19, 2011

Starved of humor and energy, the interminable Big Mommas: Life Father, Like Son could force Lawrence and co-star Brandon T. Jackson undercover for real. Read full review

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sergeysnl

Feb 19, 2011

Too ****

2 of 8 users found this helpful26

scbrother

Feb 26, 2011

ignore what the critics say and see it, you WILL laugh!
ignore what the critics say and see it, you WILL laugh!
ignore what the critics say and see it, you WILL laugh!

2 of 5 users found this helpful23

Tmacfan51

Feb 24, 2011

This beautiful masterpiece is one of the best films I have ever seen. Martin Lawrence is masterful in the art of slap-stick comedy and intelligent humour. The subtle shakes and jiggles by his fat suit only magnify his artistic, majestic comedy abilities. This film is not only heartfelt, butThis beautiful masterpiece is one of the best films I have ever seen. Martin Lawrence is masterful in the art of slap-stick comedy and intelligent humour. The subtle shakes and jiggles by his fat suit only magnify his artistic, majestic comedy abilities. This film is not only heartfelt, but also funny. I highly recommend this classic to anyone who enjoyed other classics as Citizen Kane, Psycho, and Godfather, as this film surpasses even those greats.… Expand

13 of 23 users found this helpful1310

Shiira

Feb 25, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Following in his father's footsteps, Trent(Brandon T. Jackson) falls for, in the immortal words of the late Rick James, "a very kinky girl," just like his dear old sweet mama. Like father, like son, indeed, or maybe it's just sloppy writing. A decade ago, in Raja Gosnell's "Big Momma's House", FBI agent Malcolm Turner(Martin Lawrence), a master of disguise, first put on his fat suit and wig as part of a federal investigation against Sherry Pierce(Nia Long), Trent's mother, whom the bureau had suspected of laundering money stolen by her thuggish boyfriend(Terrence Howard) during a holdup in the bank where she worked as a teller. Disguised as the person of interest's aunt, try as he might, Malcolm simply could not relate to his target as a 400-pound(by conservative estimates) mammy. His attention for Sherry would prove to be problematic, especially in the scene where the supposed niece crawls into bed with the undercover agent, and nearly blows his cover when their immediate closeness triggers a physiological change in the cross-dresser's anatomy. Although a flashlight explains away the first initial concentration of blood(obviously reallocated from his brain), Malcolm's state of sexual arousal persists, so when Sherry gets no answer to her inquiry about a possible second flashlight, as it's edited(the filmmaker cuts away to the next set-up), the moviegoer wonders if she eventually vacates herself from the highly-charged bed, because from her perspective, Hattie May Pierce must either be a man, or a hermaphrodite. In "Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son", Trent(formerly played by Jascha Washington in the series' first two entries), an aspiring rap star, pays homage to his mother of indeterminate sexual orientation by dating a girl whose taste in potential partners are simpatico. Oblivious to his feminine environs, a school of the arts for girls, Trent pees standing up, just as Haley(Jessica Lewis), a talented pianist, sets foot into the dorm room, and similar to Sherry, the singer-songwriter seems unfazed by the implied organ-related anomaly at hand, since the force of the outgoing liquid in concert with the abiding urinal, would suggest a sex-based discomfiture of startling proportions. And yet, Trent goes unquestioned, despite being an obvious drag queen(Lawrence is marginably more successful as a woman), and continues to be accepted as being woman-like, which conveys an ambivalence in Haley about the second, more radical possibility. As his alter-ego Charmaine, the self-proclaimed "Prodigy" is ever mindful of staying in character as it relates to sexual boundaries, unlike his father who, after learning that Sherry had committed no crime, forgets his put-upon identity and kisses her, not particularly chaste-like, a beat too long, full, on the lips. Instead of reacting in outright horror and disbelief, Sherry gives Big Momma a look that intimates the opposite. Yes, "Big Momma's House" establishes the future Mrs. Turner as straight, but still, as a result of some slipshod writing, there's these gaps that preside over her ostensible heterosexuality. Likewise, in "Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son", Haley falls for a man, the rapper(also a nascent Duke student), but perhaps she concurrently falls for the perceived hermaphrodite, as well. When Haley first lays eyes on "Charmaine" in the cafeteria from "Fame", she looks thunderstruck, giving the homely a frank appraisal of "her" loveliness(it must be love) with her twinkling eyes and outstretched mouth. At the year-end showcase(in other words, talent show), because Trent needs to remain incognito from his gun-totin' pursuers, he replaces himself with his doppleganger femme, who performs the hip-hop-tinged love ballad that he collaborated with Haley, a song in which the girl tells the hermaphrodite "you're the air that I breathe".… Expand

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Forrestgump1

Mar 12, 2011

"As Unnecessary this film may be it does provide some laughs but nothing spectacular. The Story feels wasted and overused and acting is nothing short of terrible. But somehow i was surprised just enough to MILD MILD recommend it . just buy like a hair!" .. C

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marcmyworks

Dec 20, 2016

A generic pile of crap, mixed with crap, add a dash of crap and then a pinch more crap. Martin Laurence finds another excuse to get into drag and drags his son along for the ride. Pun intended.

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Razv

Apr 13, 2011

I want to say it was disappointing but that would be inaccurate because i went in knowing that it was going to be awful. I was right ! The movie is bad from top to bottom, from the poorly developed and uninteresting characters to the unrealistic and naive plot, from the humorless jokes andI want to say it was disappointing but that would be inaccurate because i went in knowing that it was going to be awful. I was right ! The movie is bad from top to bottom, from the poorly developed and uninteresting characters to the unrealistic and naive plot, from the humorless jokes and cheesy spontaneous songs to the lame, lame actors(and i'm not talking about Martin Lawrence which was pretty funny, although you couldn't laugh because any funny thing was followed by something really lame). Horrible.… Expand

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