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The site's critical consensus reads: "Big Momma's House is funny in some parts, but it is essentially a one-joke movie." [7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to ...
Jun 2, 2000 · A little of Big Momma is funny enough, but eventually we realize Martin Lawrence is going to spend virtually the entire movie in drag (he appears as Malcolm only long enough to stir up a sweet romance with Sherry).
Yes. But for what it is, it's really funny and charming. It has a good cast: Martin Lawrence, Paul Giamatti as the sidekick, Nia Long, Anthony Anderson. Terrence Howard has maybe 3 scenes but somehow manages to be a legit intimidating antagonist. Even the kid actor in this movie is pretty good.
Nia Long has sweetness, toughness, and humor, and it's always a pleasure to see talented character actor Paul Giamatti. But the script is very weak, relying heavily on bathroom humor, jokes about sexy old people, and Momma's highly ungrandmotherly feelings for Sherry.
- Ella Mitchell, Martin Lawrence, Nia Long
- Raja Gosnell
- Twentieth Century Fox
Big Momma's House is funny in some parts, but it is essentially a one-joke movie. Read Critics Reviews
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- Raja Gosnell
- PG-13
- Martin Lawrence
Action Comedy Crime. FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes undercover as a large, elderly woman to catch an escaped convict, but complications arise when he bonds with Sherry, the convict's ex-girlfriend and the woman's granddaughter. Director. Raja Gosnell.
The biggest problem with Big Momma's house is that you can often see just how funny it should be, but the cast and crew are not able to sustain the occasional hilarious parts with any consistency. It doesn't seem to help that Big Momma's House wants to be more than a comedy.
