Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011/Fox Blu-ray w/DVD + Digital Copy)

 

Picture: B/C+     Sound: B-/C+     Extras: A     Film: B+

 

Big Momma (Martin Lawrence) is back bigger than ever, undercover and he is not alone, he brought along his step-son. After a wire tapping gone wrong, Martin's son becomes a witnesses to a murder.  Now Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) and his son, Trent (Brandon T. Jackson) must infiltrate all-girls performing arts to find the evidence to put the bad guys away.  Big Momma can handle bad guys with guns, but can he handle a school full of adolescent girls and not to mention his hormone charged son?  Yes, it’s another sequel: Big Mommas: Life Father, Like Son.
 
FBI agent Malcolm Turner once again goes undercover as the larger than life southern black grandma, Big Momma.  This time the bad guys are after him after he discovers a leak in the FBI, but that is not Malcolm's only problem, his step-son Trent wants to take his rap-music on the road instead of going to college.  After Trent drops in unexpectedly on Malcolm's operations he accidentally becomes a witness to murder, both of them must hid out in an all girl's school to buy time for Martin find the evidence hidden somewhere in an all girl's college.  As Malcolm searches for the evidence, Trent learns the perks of being a girl at an all-girls art school, he finds himself falling for Haley, a budding singer who befriends him as 'Charmaine'.  Can Trent get close to her without blowing his cover?  Malcolm soon discovers that staying one step ahead of the bad guys might be easier than stay ahead of his son and bunch of girls.
 
This is a comedy filled movie and if you liked the first one(s), then you will love this one. Martin Lawrence plays the FBI agent (Big Momma) again who will do ANYTHING to catch the bad guys, including dress like a woman of course.  The twist of he being joined (unwillingly) with his rap music obsessed step-son to join in his cross-dressing ways could have backfired, but it does not.  This film will have you singing, dancing, and laughing from beginning to end.  Extras include 3 discs Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy, including extended version, audio commentary, deleted scenes, Song and Dance: Momma style, Bigger Busts Countdown, Gag Reel, "Baby You Know" music video, and "Lyrical Miracle" extended music video.

 

 

-   Ricky Chiang