Big Momma's 3 isn't offensive. It isn't an unkind portrayal of obesity and its themes are light and carefree. But it's still dreadfully unfunny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 25, 2021

The physical slapstick has grown tired and, strangely enough, Lawrence himself even looks a bit tired here.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

The father/stepson angle applies a much-needed Heimlich maneuver to a series that was choking, but it's not enough.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 4, 2012

It's frighteningly impressive that a one-note gag has spawned three dreadful films and hundreds of millions of dollars in box office receipts. Wherever will they go next? Big Mommas 3D?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 31, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 24, 2011

it is likely that this shambles will be the final nail in the coffin of the career of a man once touted as The Next Eddie Murphy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 1, 2011

A mashup of 'Some Like It Hot' (leering rooster-in-the-henhouse voyeurism) and 'Glee' (peppy musical interludes), that, on the plus side, grapples with the potent issue of young black male identity...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2011

If you didn't enjoy the first two movies, don't see this.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2011

I laughed when it was as dumb as it should be. I was bored when it wasn't.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The first one wasn't all that great. The second one I barely remember seeing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 25, 2011

... lame contrivances and stale drag jokes ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2011

It only escapes a bomb rating because it's more irritating than offensive -- like an ant crawling across a counter top rather than a roach roosting in the cereal box.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 25, 2011

I'm no fan of Perry's blunt-force morality comedies, but at least his pseudo-sainted materfamilias is a real character.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 25, 2011

It's tempting to call Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son a huge waste of talent, but considering the talent involved, that doesn't seem like much of a waste.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Feb 24, 2011

Oh, come on now! Knock it off!

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 24, 2011

John Whitesell, who helmed BM2, keeps the gender-flipping gags firing with a sense of seriousness that seems blind to the inanity of the granny-panty flimsy plot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 23, 2011

It's a true rubber-necker's delight, a comedy so inconceivably tacky that it will make you question whether or not you're laughing at the film or with it.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 23, 2011

This is number three and the bloom is off the rose. Martin leave the drag to Tyler Perry and "Madea."

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 22, 2011

What's funnier than a black dude in drag? How about two black dudes in drag?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2011

Can there really be a comparative and a superlative for "unfunny"? It doesn't make sense to describe this witless, embarrassing third film in the Big Momma franchise as "the unfunniest".

| Feb 22, 2011