Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (AKA Big Momma’s House 3, Big Momma 3, BMH 3.0, Big Momma: This Franchise is dead)

 

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (AKA Big Momma’s House 3, Big Momma 3, BMH 3.0, Big Momma: This Franchise is dead)

I remember complaining about this movie last year around the same time.  Even today, I can’t believe they decided to make another one of these.  And, this time they added the “son” factor to the story.  Why?  (It is Lawrence’s stepson.)

I won’t even bother to bore you with the plot, but it has something to do with a music box and a flashdrive. 

I kind of liked the first Big Momma movie.  It had some good actors and a darker undertone to the story.  Terrance Howard actually kills people in the first movie.  By the third movie, all of the dark humor has been replaced with silly jokes taken from other movies.  (Are we going to use the Twister game joke again?)  Gone are the Paul Giamatti, Anthony Anderson, Terrence Howard and Nia Long.  In their places, there are a bunch of no-name actors. 

The villains aren’t even serious anymore.  They’re cartoony and silly.  I was expecting the Bulk and Skull theme song to play every time they showed up.  They simply stand around holding their guns waiting to get beaten or kicked by the good guys.  What is going on here?

And, you know you’re in trouble when the original actor from the first two Big Momma’s movies declined to reprise his role as Trent Pierce Turner.  Yes, Jascha Washington, the actor from Like Mike 2, turned down this movie. 

In his place, here comes Brandon T. Jackson to stink up the place.  He takes the place of Washington as the stepson.  Jackson isn’t that bad, and really the movie is more about him and his fake female character befriending a chick that likes to sing.  I guess that is a call back to the first movie.  And, to be fair, Martin Lawrence isn’t in the movie that much.  But, the scenes he’s in aren’t that funny.  Lawrence has that same expression Eddie Murphy has in his recent movies.  It is the expression of boredom.  If Lawrence doesn’t care, why should we?  And, the movie doesn’t care. 

There was a time when Lawrence was a hot ticket, but he seems to follow in the same footsteps as Murphy and stopped caring about putting an edge to his characters.  His last best role has to be in Bad Boys 2.  Lawrence looks sleepy in this movie.   There is no fire his role when you compare it to his earlier movies.  (Remember how funny he was in Boomerang?) Take some time off and reflect, Martin. 

I guess there is a message in the story about going to college, but it gets pissed on by the lame jokes and bad acting. 

Did I mention there is a lame music video during the credits? 

There is no reason to even bother watching this third movie, because it is a rehash of the first two better movies.  Nothing is even remotely funny, unless you want to see how far Martin Lawrence’s career has fallen.  We can all point and laugh or cry.

A crap movie with a crap grade.  Sadly, the movie just barely made enough to warrant a sequel.  Let me be the first to say, “F’ Big Momma!”

Grade: F+

 Books, F' em:  Big Momma hates books and starts to shoot every single one in the library

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Dancing:  This actually plays a huge role in the climax.  It is true.