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| Director
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John Whitesell
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| Starring
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Martin Lawrence, Emily Procter,
Nia Long |
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| The plot of
Big Momma's House 2 |
On his latest assignment, FBI agent Malcolm Turner
(Lawrence) once again goes undercover as Big Momma,
and works as a nanny for an unhappily woman (Procter)
who is under investigation for murder. |
Big Momma's
House 2 Review
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Review by Brian
Lowry:
More than five years
after "Big Momma's House""Big Momma's
House" -- which was basically "Kindergarten
Cop" in drag -- Martin LawrenceMartin Lawrence
goes the Uncle Miltie route again in this wholly uninspired
sequel, which plays more like "Mrs. Doubtfire 2."
Donning the fat suit and wig, Lawrence's FBI agent becomes
the nanny to a trio of kids, while engaging in the most
rudimentary of revenge plots. Probably review-proof
for openers, pic is so episodic and flat it should be
a letdown even to those amused by the original.Consider
it a trivia footnote that the first "House"
party featured Terrence Howard as the bad guy and Paul
GiamattiPaul Giamatti as Lawrence's partner. Yet if
that stakeout caper actually had some semblance of a
dramatic foundation, the setup here is ludicrous from
the get-go, as if the box office tally from its forerunner
was reason enough to make the sequel.Lawrence's Agent
Malcolm Turner has wedded the woman he met in the first
film, Sherrie (Nia LongNia Long), and transferred to
a desk job as they await the birth of their child. When
one of his mentors is killed, however, Malcolm fabricates
an excuse to go undercover as Big Momma, becoming the
nanny to a businessman, Tom Fuller ("Desperate
Housewives' " Mark Moses)..more..
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Martin Lawrence is back in fat-lady drag in this inconsequential
sequel for the undemanding moviegoer. His F.B.I. agent
character, Malcolm Turner, poses again as an obese middle-age
woman who asks everyone to call her Big Momma, this
time to go undercover as a nanny. "Her" employer
is the family of a computer expert (Mark Moses) who
has created a worm that could compromise national security.
An unconvincing subplot has Malcolm's beautiful pregnant
wife, Sherry (Nia Long, from the first movie), convinced
that her husband is unfaithful. The film's idea of humor
includes a lacy women's thong the size of a pillowcase,
Big Momma in a swimsuit and Bo Derek braids running
slow-motion on a beach and a big splash of tequila in
Pancho the dog's water bowl. There is some inherent
humor in the incongruity of an overweight grandmother
type in a floral-print dress behaving like a tough F.B.I.
man, and Mr. Lawrence makes the most of it. The film
is generally good-natured, too, even as it laments the
ineptitude of these pathetic, gawky, overscheduled white
peopl..More..
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