{"id":747,"date":"2011-02-15T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmgaze.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:31:42","slug":"big-mommas-like-father-like-son-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmgaze.com\/blog\/comedy\/big-mommas-like-father-like-son-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son – 1*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You need to pity Martin Lawrence<\/a>, you really do. Imagine knowing after the second, no, the first film that the franchise you\u2019ve signed up to is a right stinker, and you have to make a third to keep the money men happy. But hey, let\u2019s change the title of the third to fool those who were less than enamoured with the second by dropping any reference to it being \u2018Number 3\u2019. Still, third time lucky, as they say?<\/p>\n

Well, sadly, no. Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son (as there are two ‘nicely covered’ ladies in it this time) is still moronic, chauvinistic, clich\u00e9d, and just not funny \u2013 and staggeringly less so than the first two. Lawrence still plays FBI agent Malcolm Turner who continues to run around in a fat suit impersonating a morbidly obese granny, in order to catch criminals. Questions spring to mind: Have the criminal masterminds not cottoned onto the fact that Big Momma is Turner\u2019s alter ego by now, especially when, as in this story, there\u2019s a leak in the Federal building? Do they not wonder how this hefty dame manages to pole-vault over furniture at record speed?<\/p>\n

We are saved from one thing, though; Lawrence as Big Momma has stopped salivating over beautiful young women in their panties, but has past on the defective gene to his equally horny (and somewhat corny) son called Trent, played by super fly Brandon T. Jackson<\/a> of Percy Jackson<\/a><\/em> fame. There is an amusing repertoire going on between them, perhaps, but unless you\u2019re a \u2018street\u2019 teen down with the urban vibe, you\u2019ll need subtitles to work out what the devil\u2019s being said first. Maybe it\u2019s the not \u2018dope\u2019 Brit in me, and as the film-makers claim, they’re after the teen market this time.<\/p>\n

Turner and Trent\u00a0 \u2013 aka Big Momma and great niece Charmaine \u2013\u00a0find themselves hiding out in a performing arts school for girls, after witnessing a snitch\u2019s murder carried out by some Russian mobsters. With Big Momma as the girls\u2019 \u2018House Momma\u2019, the boys\u2019 key to freedom is finding a USB drive in a musical box in the school\u2019s library that holds the evidence to put the baddies away for life. Trouble is, the performing brats have nicked the box, and unless Big Momma can crack petulant and emaciated prima ballerina Jasmine, the girls\u2019 ringleader, played by Portia Doubleday<\/a>, it\u2019s going to stay hidden.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a beautiful irony; Trent desperately wants to convince all and sundry that he\u2019s got talent, musically \u2013 as does Jackson with comedy \u2013 and leeches after<\/span> falls for stunning Haley, played by Jessica Lucas<\/a>, who quite obviously does. Lawrence and Jackson\u2019s talent merely seems to be the tired and clown-like sort of falling down, or falling over and crushing humans and objects, followed by idiotic gurning. Even Lawrence in this film seems a tad bored and deflated in his fatness by it all, and even the Twister moment that should produce some laughs falls flat on the game mat.<\/p>\n

The film has a bunch of B-listers involved, including The Hangover<\/a><\/em>\u2019s quirky Ken Jeong<\/a> as a jobsworth mailman who is easily forgotten in this; Faizon Love<\/a> as Big Momma\u2019s equally roly-poly admirer, school caretaker Kurtis Kool; and Tony Curran<\/a> as Russian mob boss Chirkoff (Get it? \u2018Chirk-off\u2019?). The funniest character is Michelle Ang<\/a> as acting diva Mia who goes into meltdown regularly, and often steals the moment.<\/p>\n

As far as men dressing as women and entertaining \u2013 pantos aside, Big Momma makes Mrs. Doubtfire<\/a><\/em> look like classic comedy gold. With a film that should be generating at least the odd laugh or three, the theatre was eerily quiet. Too much Momma to handle, or like an annoying relative at a party peddling out the same old jokes, just plain \u2018brutal\u2019 who seriously needs to \u2018bounce\u2019?<\/p>\n

1\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

By @FilmGazer<\/p>\n

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You need to pity Martin Lawrence, you really do. Imagine knowing after the second, no, the first film that the franchise you\u2019ve signed up to is a right stinker, and you have to make a third to keep the money men happy. But hey, let\u2019s change the title of the third to fool those who … <\/p>\n

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