


Unfortunately, this particular series is just a drag. Cross-dressing is a tried and true movie staple in comedies, and when it works, it can be amazing ( Some Like It Hot, The Birdcage, Mrs. He should be trying to stretch himself, like Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, or even Marlon Wayans (in Requiem for a Dream) did earlier in their careers. It's disappointing, because Jackson - who's made a living playing the comic-relief in Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson, The Lottery Ticket, and more - is a pretty talented young actor, but he needs to show he can do something clever, not this lowbrow comedy. But aside from a silly little scene in which Jackson and Lawrence do a little dance routine to a Temptations song, even the performances fall flat. Plus, there are a couple of Glee-meets- Fame moments in which Jackson and the girls break into spontaneous song (and dance). Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.There are fewer crude jokes in this threequel, which is obviously aimed at young teens, than there were in Big Momma's House 2 that's the good news. An all-star cast tells a classic story about fathers and sons, the cost of keeping secrets, and the consequences that arise from defying forbidden family. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby. This movie is nothing original, full of cliches of any movie I have ever seen in which a male takes on the disguise of the female gender. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital.

Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born.

Screenshots from another edition of Like Father, Like Son Blu-ray
