So yesterday, I went Cathay Cinexplex at Causeway Point to watch Big Mommas. Well, the plan was to watch Diary Of A Wimpy Kid at 1.10pm, but we were kinda... late. So after some discussion, we decided to watch Big Mommas at 4.40pm rather than World Invasion at 4.20pm. Yup, these small things would have changed this blog post entirely. Alright, let's get to the review...
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Movie: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Review by: Syazwan Jainal (a.k.a. Syazwan FellDown)
The movie starts off with Malcolm Turner (played by Martin Lawrence) chasing his mailman for his mail. He sees that he gets a letter that his son Trent Turner (played by Brandon T. Jackson) is accepted into Duke University. Malcolm tracks down Trent to find that he is outside his high school, which he has graduated from. He is performing his song "Lyrical Miracle" which I can't seem to get out of my head. Malcolm stops Trent and brings him home. All the way home, Trent tries to get Malcolm to sign a recording contract for the Prodi-G(Trent). Malcolm does not want to sign it as he does not want Trent to give up his college education at Duke. Malcolm then goes to work where he has to face some bad guys.
Heeding advice from his friend, Trent follows Malcolm in hopes of getting his contract signed. Trent witnesses the snitch that Malcolm had sent die and hides. His phone suddenly starts ringing with 'Lyrical Miracle' as his ringtone. Dumbass, set it to silent. Malcolm saves Trent in the nick of time and they escape. Chirkov tells his men to hunt down Trent and kill him as he was a witness. Malcolm then tells the both of them to go undercover and stay away from home. And thus, BIG MOMMAS.
Malcolm find out that the flash drive he is looking for is at Georgia Girls' School. They go to the Georgia Girls' School For The Arts and Trent enrols. Numerous events occur and Malcolm deduces that the flash drive was in a music box that was stolen. Eventually, Trent blows his cover when his friends spot him on a date with Hayley (as himself). His friends then call Chirkov, who had presented himself as a record producer. When Trent changes back to the fatass girl, Chirkov's men could no longer recognise Trent and thought that he had disappeared. Malcolm finds out that it was actually Hayley that stole the music box.
Hayley, hoping that Trent would be there to duet with him but Trent could not as he needed to keep his cover. Hayley is unable to perform but undercover Trent does the duet together with him. Hayley then finds out that it was actually Trent all along and is enraged.
They then go to the library where Hayley places back the music box. There, Malcolm, Trent and Hayley almost die as they were cornered by Chirkov. Luckily for them, the school's janitor, Kurtis Kool, saves them by stun gunning Chirkov.
The movie then ends with "Lyrical Miracle" music video featuring Malcolm as Big Momma and Kurtis Kool.
I'm new to the series, and I'd say that it wasn't too bad. However, I feel that for a comedy film, there just wasn't enough... comedy. But, that's just my opinion. Comedy rating... 7/10. Would I watch it again? Yes. Watch it for a 3rd time? Maybe. 7/10 for re-watchability. I don't think the content was enough. I just felt that there wasn't enough in the movie. It felt like it was lacking something. 6/10 for content. That would make the score... 6.6/10. It wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. It was alright.
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I can't get that song "Lyrical Miracle" out of my head. Hahahaha.
SYAZWAN.
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