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Rating: Country: USA Release Date: May 9, 2006 Distributor: 20th Century Fox Director: · John Whitesell Cast: · Martin Lawrence · Nia Long · Emily Procter · Zachary Levi · Mark Moses Related Sites: ·IMDb: Big Momma's House 2 ·Cinema Spider: Big Momma's House 2
Grade: B
After his adventure as Big Momma, FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) gave up his dangerous life for a position in the Bureau's P.R. department -- a desk job, ostensibly, whenever Malcolm isn't giving safety speeches to elementary schools while he's dressed up as Goldie, the Safety Eagle. It's not that the last experience scared him any, but now he has a family to consider -- a wife and stepson, and a baby on the way any day.
When Malcolm learns that his first partner has been killed, he wants in on the case but his superiors won't allow it. So Malcolm eavesdrops on the plans. The FBI is concerned about a computer worm being developed that would provide Internet terrorists easy access to several federal computers. The main suspect is Tom Fuller (Mark Moses), and the idea is to insert an FBI agent into the family as the new hired nanny. This provides Malcolm with the idea to reprise his undercover disguise as Big Momma, who shoulders out all the applicants -- including the FBI plant -- putting him squarely in the middle of... a family who desperately needs the help of Big Momma. The 15-year-old daughter is dating a 19-year-old punk. The middle child practices her heart out at cheerleading for a competition her parents will never come to see. And the toddler boy won't speak, eats brillo pads, and throws himself off the tallest things he can climb. Big Momma's going to have her... er, his... hands full thwarting the criminals while simultaneously making things right for a family gone wrong.
To say that the movie dips into silliness is probably overstating things, particularly when the main plot involves a man dressing up in a female fat-suit. However, the Malcolm Turner character is quite the astute agent -- hardly a bumbling Maxwell Smart. His keen observations are on a par with Sherlock Holmes at times. The movie only starts to crumble when the focus shifts off of Big Momma and onto the real bumbling FBI agent, Kevin Kennelly (Zachary Levi); or when the FBI brings in a pre-teen computer whiz to do some hacking for the good guys. If there's a "Big Momma's House 3" in the idea mill, I can only suggest to the writers that they just let Big Momma do her thing and stop trying to add in the slapstick subplots. Big Momma can carry the film just fine by herself.
The special features on this set include the feature film commentary with Director John Whitesell, Producer David Friendly and actor Zachary Levi. There are also over fifteen minutes of alternate and deleted scenes, viewable with or without commentary by Whitesell and Levi. The audio is Dolby Surround in either English, Spanish or French, with optional subtitling in English or Spanish. The set includes both the full-screen and widescreen versions.
Previews on this set include "Dr. Dolittle 3", "Like Mike 2", and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2".
