Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 2011

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The airless Matthew Fogel-Don Rhymer script makes one long for the snark and sass of Madea. Read more

Mike Hale, New York Times: It seems fair to point out that of all the cross-dressing comedies of recent decades, none has channeled Some Like It Hot quite so thoroughly. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Even Big Momma deserves better than this. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Looking back, it's strange to remember that the first two movies were both hits, and that Paul Giamatti and Terrence Howard even saw enough in the premise to sign up for the original. At this point, it's really all just flab. Read more

Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: Lawrence's gender-bending jokes are played out, and his slapstick is wooden and slow. It's understandable: Clowning around underneath that fat suit must be exhausting. Almost as much as watching it. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: This is not a case of doubling the fun so much as an anxious attempt to revive a franchise running out of gas. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: If Tyler Perry finds liberation in lipstick, Lawrence has become suffocated by Spanx. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African-American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Quite how this flaccid, one-joke crime-comedy franchise even got off the ground is a mystery. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: There's little that is fresh and nothing at all inventive about scenes involving the brandishing and firing of guns, the unfunny excesses of a putatively comical car chase, and the repetitious sass and brass of Big Momma's life lessons. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: [This] extraordinarily witless movie operates as a checklist for cultural and racial cliches. Read more