We get a full serving of silly with barely a taste of funny and entertaining. No big laughs here.
Big Momma's House (2000)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:24
Rotten:56
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Big Momma's House is funny in some parts, but it is essentially a one-joke movie.
Synopsis:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is tough, smart and a master of disguise. There's nothing he can't handle. Stop a brutal crime ring? No problem. Malcolm transforms himself into an aged Asian man to crack...
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is tough, smart and a master of disguise. There's nothing he can't handle. Stop a brutal crime ring? No problem. Malcolm transforms himself into an aged Asian man to crack the case.
Malcolm's latest assignment brings him to a small southern town, where he's determined to trap a brutal bank robber (and recent prison escapee). Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by the con's former flame, Sherry, and her son.
It's a simple plan, but there's one Big Problem: Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, taking on his most challenging "role" ever, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine - from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church.
As if things weren't complicated enough, Malcolm finds himself falling for Sherry, who might be hiding some stolen cash. Now, Malcolm/Big Momma must somehow find a way to get his man -and woman.
Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises present a David T. Friendly/Runteldat Entertainment production, starring Martin Lawrence in BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE. The film also stars Nia Long, Paul Giamatti and Terrence Howard. Raja Gosnell directs from a screenplay by Darryl Quarles and Don Rhymer, from a story by Darryl Quarles. The producers are David T. Friendly and Michael Green, and the executive producers are Martin Lawrence, Jeffrey Kwatinetz, Rodney Liber and Amon Milchan.
The director of photography is Michael D. O'Shea, A.S.C., the production designer is Craig Steams, and the film is edited by Bruce Green, A.C.E. and Kent Beyda, A.C.E. The music supervisor is Spring Aspers and music is by Richard Gibbs.
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Terrence Howard
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Terrence Howard, Ella Mitchell, Jascha Washington, Anthony Anderson
Director: Raja Gosnell
Director: Raja Gosnell
Screenwriter: Darryl Quarles, Don Rhymer
Producer: David T. Friendly, Michael Green
Composer: Richard Gibbs
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Reviews for Big Momma's House
Seeing Martin's faux [breast] appear on his shoulder is awfully funny, until about 45 minutes of the same joke being repeated ad nauseam.
The driving force that kept us rolling in the aisles focuses on the brilliant physical comedy of Lawrence.
The comic spell that hangs over the plot like a tent of engorged cellulite, and which asks us to dig every corny, contrived, old-hat bit of folksy nonsense and jolly raunch that the writers can cram into us.
Big Momma's House is as uneven as the readout on a binge dieter's bathroom scale.
Big Momma's House feels thrown together without much thought or effort.
Big, broad, and ballsy, an overstuffed Martin Lawrence looms large in Big Momma’s House and appears ready to toss a gross-out shtick at Tom Cruise and M:I-2.
It's The Nutty Professor meets Mrs. Doubtfire, but without the humor of the former or the heart of the latter.
This movie may well disappoint fans seeking the blue-streaked Lawrence of stand-up and tabloid infamy.
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November 10, 2005:
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