Big Momma's House 2 (2006)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

John Whitesell

Writers (WGA):

Don Rhymer (written by)
Darryl Quarles (characters)

Release Date:

27 January 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Thriller

Tagline:

The Momma of all Comedies is Back.

Plot:

On his latest assignment, FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) goes undercover as Big Momma, and works as a nanny for an unhappy woman (Procter) who is under investigation for murder.

Plot Keywords:

Undercover | FBI | Nanny | FBI Agent | Cheerleading

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Martin Lawrence	...	Malcolm / Big Momma
Nia Long	...	Sherri
Emily Procter	...	Leah Fuller
Zachary Levi	...	Kevin
Mark Moses	...	Tom Fuller
Kat Dennings	...	Molly
Chloe Moretz	...	Carrie (as Chloe Grace Moretz)
Marisol Nichols	...	Liliana Morales
Josh Flitter	...	Stewart
Dan Lauria	...	Crawford
Jascha Washington	...	Trent
Preston Shores	...	Andrew
Trevor Shores	...	Andrew
Sarah Brown	...	Constance (as Sarah Joy Brown)
Rhoda Griffis	...	Mrs. Gallagher

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual humor and a humorous drug reference.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Ireland:12A | UK:PG | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (re-rating after appeal) | Argentina:Atp | Netherlands:MG6 | Malaysia:U | Brazil:10 | Finland:K-11 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:PG (edited version) (DVD rating) | Hungary:14 | Iceland:LH (video rating) | Portugal:M/6 | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:M

Filming Locations:

Costa Mesa, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Goofs:

Continuity: Malcolm knocks the heater over at the safety convention, yet it's upright in the next shot, then knocked over again.

Quotes:

Leah Fuller: If you'd checked the schedule you would've seen that Carrie had a violin lesson, and Andrew had tutoring.
Malcolm: Tutoring? He's only 2 years old.

Movie Connections:

References Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Soundtrack:

Paper Hearts

very lame but sometimes funny

Some of the greatest movie comedies of all time have revolved around men dressing up in drag and trying to pass themselves off as women ("Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie" being the prime examples). Ironically, that's also been the basis for some of the worst comedies ever made ("White Chicks" being the prime example I can think of at the moment). Somewhere in the middle lie the Big Momma movies, both the original, made in 2000,and the sequel from 2006, creatively entitled "Big Momma's House 2." Once again, Martin Lawrence stars as the FBI agent who this time goes undercover as a nanny to the children of a man who may be involved in some sort of major threat to national security (yawn!).

In turns of its storyline, the movie falls somewhere between "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Mary Poppins," with Big Momma managing to heal the rift in the family and making the neglectful father a model parent by the end of the film. The crime scenario is beyond stupid and leads to a whole host of idiotic slapstick scenes involving Big Momma taking on the gun-wielding bad guys, but if you have a high level of tolerance for this sort of thing, "Big Momma's House 2" should provide you with a good share of laughs amid all the clunkers.

Lawrence exhibits a great deal of energy in the role of Big Momma, but he never brings the kind of insight and believability to the part that Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis or Dustin Hoffman managed to do in their respective turns at cross dressing comedy. Unfortunately, Lawrence's portrayal is all surface imitation, utterly devoid of the kind of subtle shading that might suggest he had actually gotten in touch with his character. This film would be a trifle less innocuous if it hadn't been done so much better already.