Review of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) by Johnny T — 28 Jun 2011
John Whitesell's extraordinarily witless movie operates as a checklist for cultural and racial clichés. Hilariously horrible when it isn't just plain awful. Kind of a drag when it resorts to frantic slapstick and tired action-comedy tropes, but modestly engaging during stretches that suggest the project would have worked better as an exuberant musical. Won't likely disappoint fans of men-in-drag comedy but doesn't offer much that's original or funny. It goes down like a canned but genial '80s comedy: Without fanfare or much nutrition; part of your balanced breakfast. Irony supplies the sole spark of humor in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, as this moribund second sequel has the audacity to feature Martin Lawrence's fat-suit-encased FBI agent decrying the very same noxious stereotypes in which this film wallows.
VERDICT: "Rental" - (Mixed to Negative reaction). These films are only worth renting because of certain good things that are worth seeing, but are not worth paying at a theatre to see due to bad things that overcome anything good.
This review of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) was written by Johnny T on 28 Jun 2011.
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son has generally received mixed reviews.
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