Variety
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.
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Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son
Third entry in Martin Lawrence's Big Momma comedy series. This time FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) and his 17-year-old son, Trent (Brandon T. Jackson), go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they gotta find the murderer before he finds them.
2011Rating: PG, Mild violence and coarse language107 minsUSA
Comedy
- Director:
- John Whitesell ('Big Momma's House 2', 'Deck the Halls')
- Writer:
- Matthew FogelDon RhymerDarryl Quarles
- Cast:
- Martin LawrenceBrandon T. JacksonMax CasellaPortia DoubledayFaizon LoveJessica Lucas
Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son / Reviews
Total Film
A marginal improvement on previous outings, if only because Lawrence is slightly lower in the mix.
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About the only honestly funny thing in the movie is Faizon Love's uncredited performance in the Joe E. Brown role, as the school maintenance man who's immediately smitten with Big Momma.
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Los Angeles Times
A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.
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Hollywood Reporter
Won't likely disappoint fans of men-in-drag comedy but doesn't offer much that's original or funny.
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Empire Magazine
Whoever demanded a third installment of Lawrence's mirthless mash-up of weak gags and cross-dressing horrors should be imprisoned and forced to watch it on repeat until they repent. Avoid.
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