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.
Sporting a colon rather than a numeral, this sequel takes the lumbering action-comedy franchise in a surprisingly different direction. The first two films were an uneasy mix of family-friendly slapstick and distinctly adult humour. Here, Lawrence’s fanbase is abandoned in favour of a younger generation. Rather than sub-Eddie Murphy-style hijinks, we have what is essentially High School Musical meets White Chicks via way of The House Bunny (which, of course, allows the filmmakers to bulk up the wafer-thin plot with musical numbers and dance sequences).
The shift is most notable in the 'life-lessons' on offer. Last time out we had Malcolm learning how to balance work and domestic duties, this time around the wife and young daughter have been abandoned, in favour of buddy bonding with his teenage stepson, who learns the importance of education and that auto-tune is a career-maker.
Like Yogi Bear before him this year, Lawrence is also sidelined in favour of a collection of stereotypes that wouldn’t make the Glee squad – there’s a flighty Asian actress (played by Christchurch-born Michelle Ang), a bitchy ballerina, a knitted hat wearing artist and an impossibly pretty pianist. However, they pale in comparison to the cardboard cliches that are the bad guys. One henchman sports a Lucius Malfoy hairdo, while their leader Chirkoff’s (Underworld: Evolution’s Tony Curran) accent veers wildly from Irish to Eastern European.
By James Croot, Flicks.co.nz
they'd already done 2 that was stupid and annoying ... here comes number 3 ! My dog's farts are funnier that this film !
Watched it last night and I was utterly disappointed. There were really no funny elements to it and I also noticed a scene that is being advertised in the trailers was clipped.
its soo funny... and f u gerd... get a life
If you have an IQ over 26 don’t go there let your dog have some fun instead.
This was a really funny movie, Martin Lawrence is allways funny but it didn't have some of the same cast from the first 2.
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.
Won't likely disappoint fans of men-in-drag comedy but doesn't offer much that's original or funny.
A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.
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.
A marginal improvement on previous outings, if only because Lawrence is slightly lower in the mix.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 17th Feb 2011.
Release date: February 17th 2011.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
