FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper-class kids in order to spy on their computer hacker father.
This is funny mostly for its brazen disregard of common sense -- specifically, the idea that elaborate full-body prosthetic makeup could be slapped on in seconds by a cop on the run.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
7 Mar 2007
rotten:
If Lawrence makes you laugh, you'd be better off watching him do stand-up.
– Anna Smith,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
The least necessary sequel this side of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
16 Feb 2006
fresh:
As warmhearted as the original.
– R. Emmet Sweeney,
Village Voice,
31 Jan 2006
rotten:
Big Momma may be larger than life, but the shtick is older than old.