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Big Momma's House 2 Review |
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Mar 25, 2008 at 03:23 AM |
 Director :
John Whitesell
Starring : 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
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). Review By registration req'd:
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. |
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Last Updated ( Mar 25, 2008 at 05:05 AM )
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