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Poor
Martin Lawrence. If
Adam Sandler thought
the box office had
passed him by… well
he’s got it good.
Home video passed
Martin Lawrence by.
It’s hard to type
this, but Hattie Mae
Pierce gets to come
back for round
three. In
Big
Mommas: Like Father,
Like Son,
Lawrence dons the
fat suit and the old
lady dress yet again
but this time he
gets to have Brandon
T. Jackson as a
sidekick.
The
first and best time
we’d seen Martin
Lawrence dress up as
Hattie Mae Pierce
was in
Big
Momma’s House.
Malcolm (Lawrence)
went undercover to
get information on
the whereabouts of a
known felon. He
solved his case, but
he also gained a
family out of that
experience. In
Like
Father, Like Son,
things are much
further along.
Malcolm’s step-son
is a senior in high
school and he’s
ready to start his
life. The only thing
is Malcolm has
different plans for
Trent than Trent has
for himself. Malcolm
has his mind made up
that his stepson is
going to go to Duke
University- his alma
mater. Trent wants
to go out on the
road with a bunch of
independent hip hop
artists. But since
Trent’s only 17, he
needs consent from a
guardian before he
can hit the road.
While trying to trap
Malcom into signing
the permission slip,
Trent sees a murder.
To get away from the
bad guys chasing
them and find the
piece of evidence to
put them in jail,
Malcolm and Trent
have to dress in
drag so they can
gain access to an
all-girl school for
the arts. Yup…
that’s
Big
Mommas: Like Father,
Like Son.
There’s not a lot to
like with this
edition of
Big
Momma.
The script’s a mess,
the acting outside
of Lawrence is a
mess, and there’s
not a lot of
anything to like.
It’s a mess. Brandon
T. Jackson is a
terrible actor in
this movie, he’s
done better work and
he’s disappointing
in this. Included in
this movie though is
the very lost idea
to incorporate music
into the script with
Trent’s rapping, his
love-interest
singing, and the
girls at the art
school doing dance
numbers. The music
isn’t believably
good enough to catch
anybody’s attention
and it makes this
feel like
Big
Momma’s House
infused with
High
School Musical…
except
High
School Musical
has better music.
There are some
extras included on
this disc, although
you’ll really never
want to watch them
after seeing the
feature. There are
deleted scenes to go
along with Big
Momma’s top five
busts, and other
inclusions. After
watching the movie
you won’t want to
watch them so
there’s no point in
them being present.
Big
Mommas: Like Father,
Like Son
should never have
been made. It ruined
the legacy of
Lawrence’s only
movie that has any
sort of ‘classic’
status attached to
it. They turned a
funny comedy into a
piece of teenage
drivel that’s awful
to watch. They could
have at least done
an
American Pie: Naked
Mile
thing with this
movie and kept
Lawrence away… he’s
too good for this
movie. And yes,
that’s saying
something.
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