Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)

  • 5% of critics liked it
    (60 reviews)

  • 49% of users liked it
    (34,137 ratings)

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… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.
Directed By
John Whitesell
Written By
Matthew Fogel
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Feb 18, 2011 Wide
On DVD
Jun 14, 2011
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Tom Russo, Boston Globe

    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.

  • Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

    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.

  • Mike Hale, New York Times

    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.

  • Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

    A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    If Tyler Perry finds liberation in lipstick, Lawrence has become suffocated by Spanx.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • EightThirty .


    11/10/2011 (PS3, ONLINE)

  • Dead A


    Not funny. It was hella irritating. Damn why do they try so hard to be funny?! One star for the songs.

  • Pedro H


    <i>Momma's got back up</i> <b>Big Momma is Big Comedy</b> I have always loved Big Momma, every single movie. It seemed like a bad idea first to make another movie, since the second one had been so great, I must admit that I was kind of scared at first,… More

  • Manu G


    Weak thus entertaining. The movie has a very bleak plot and seems to lack comedy unlike the other 2 before this one. FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and… More

  • Brad W


    I didn't laugh, it was boring and not even worth the time. I really didn't enjoy this, and frankly I can't see why everyone else did like it. It has a great comedian being a horrible cop, it is cliche and how many crimes can they solve with a fat suit.

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