Bad Boys for Life (2020)

The machismo of the earlier movies didn't appeal to me so I haven't seen them, and I suspect a fondness for the two buddy cops, Will Smith's Detective Mike Lowrey and Martin Lawrence's Detective Marcus Burnett, is necessary to care less about their antics in this third action movie of the series, one that features numerous return characters I didn't know and adds new details to the detectives' backstories that are meant to be surprising but are not surprising if, like me, you don't know any different.

★★☆☆☆

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Big Momma's House (2000)

"Honky Grandma Be Trippin'" for realsies has Martin Lawrence playing the undercover cop who thinks the best way to inveigle his way into a wanted criminal's circle is to use a leftover The Klumps bodysuit to disguise himself as a large Southern grandmother, which seems a lot more work than simply developing the chemistry he finds he has as himself with the gangster's girlfriend.

★☆☆☆☆

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