The official trailer for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son was released.
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son is an American crime comedy film that was released in 2011.Martin Lawrence reprised his role as FBI agent Malcolm Turner in the film.Trent Pierce, Turner's stepson from the previous two movies, is now played by Brandon T. Jackson, after Jascha Washington declined to reprise his role.The film was released by 20th Century Fox.
Trent Pierce, Malcolm Turner's stepson, has been accepted to attend Duke University.Trent wants Malcolm to sign a recording contract for him since he is too young.Trent's friends encouraged him to ambush Malcolm on the job in order to get the signature.
Trent attempts to ambush Malcolm on the job, while Malcolm uses an Informant named Canetti to deliver a flash drive to the gang, in an attempt to capture a Russian gang member.A friend of Canetti's at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts hides a duplicate of the empty flash drive.
Trent witnessed Canetti being killed during the exchange.Since Trent's car was left at the scene, Malcolm knows the gang members will be able to track them down so Malcolm and Trent are forced to hide.Malcolm disguises Trent as an obese girl named "Charmaine" to become Big Momma's great-niece.Big Momma is employed as a house mother at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts, while Charmaine is a student.
Surrounded by attractive young women, Trent nearly blows his cover, but befriends a girl named Haley Robinson.Malcolm deduced that the music box contained a flash drive when the headmistress announced that it had been stolen.While looking at the library, Big Momma security guard encounters a man who is trying to woo her.Malcolm realized that he is the friend when he saw a picture of Kurtis with Canetti.
The gang members approach Trent's best friends, posing as record producers, and encourage them to let them know where Trent is.She doubts she will be interested in "Prodi-G," Trent's hip-hop alias, though she sets up a date between Haley and himself.Trent reverting to his true self and the date going well, but an encounter with his best friends causes the gang members to tail them.
Trent helps Haley perfect her musical performance for the upcoming "Showcase" event, turning it into a duet, and the two kiss at the end of the date, while Haley encourages Trent to attend college.Trent throws off the gang members before they can capture him.Learning of an exchange between two students and Kurtis Kool, Big Momma attempts to flirt with him in order to capture him for stealing the music box, but the secret exchange ends up being the stolen gamecock from the Ignatius Boys School.
Malcolm reveals his true identity to Kurtis.The music box was stolen by Haley in order to become a full pledged member of the "Divas", a group of top artists in the school.As she is about to perform her duet, Malcolm forces Trent to keep his disguise, and he tries to impersonate Haley, only to break it and ruin the performance.The gang members arrive and a chase ensues.
Trent accidentally drew their attention as he tried to explain himself.The gang members hold him at gun point after he recovers the flash drive.Malcolm's disguise is revealed when all three are caught again.Just as he was about to kill them, Kurtis arrived with a taser and saved the day.
Trent and Haley reconcile, and Malcolm signs Trent's record contract, only to have Trent tear it up and reveal his new plan to attend college.Malcolm and Trent agreed to keep the whole thing a secret from Sherry.
An unrated and extended version of the film was released along with the theatrical version on the DVD.There is a red hair scene, a song-and-dance musical number, and a slight extension of the party in the unrated version.[5]
The previous films in the series cost more than $32 million.They were able to reduce costs because Lawrence agreed to take a pay cut.April 2010 was when principal photography began.[2]
Critics panned Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.The film has an approval rating of 5%, based on 60 reviews, with an average of 2.5%."Unnecessary, unfunny, and generally unwelcome, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son offers more of the same for fans of Martin Lawrence's puzzlingly popular series."The film has a score of 22 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+, with an A+ to F scale.[7]