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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) There's no point explaining the flimsy buddy-com clichés that force an FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) and his son (Brandon Jackson) to go undercover at an… Comedy Brandon T. Jackson Martin Lawrence Max Casella Portia Doubleday Faizon Love Ana Ortiz 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | FATSUIT DRAG Brandon T. Jackson and Martin Lawrence in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
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FATSUIT DRAG Brandon T. Jackson and Martin Lawrence in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
EW's GRADE
D+

Details Release Date: Feb 18, 2011; Genre: Comedy; With: Brandon T. Jackson and Martin Lawrence; Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

There's no point explaining the flimsy buddy-com clichés that force an FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) and his son (Brandon Jackson) to go undercover at an all-girls art school in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, a follow-up to 2000's Big Momma's House and 2006's Big Momma's House 2. It's all an openly lame excuse for Lawrence to hop back into the eye-assaulting muumuus of his alter ego Big Momma, a wheezing, overripe hybrid of a Southern dumb-belle and a Julia Child drag impersonator. The trouble is, once the movie drops its cop-drama trappings, it doesn't do any better as a comedy. 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. D+

Originally posted Feb 18, 2011 Published in issue #1142 Feb 18, 2011 Order article reprints