Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
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.
Big Momma's House 2 is a formulaic sequel that recycles the same disguise-and-family-chaos premise of the original with minimal creative variation. The plot is predictable and thin, leaning entirely on fat-suit slapstick and broad stereotype humor. Acting is serviceable at best, with Martin Lawrence going through familiar motions. Cinematography is entirely functional network-TV-level work with no visual ambition. Novelty scores rock bottom as it's a by-the-numbers retread of an already derivative concept. The ending wraps up with saccharine tidiness that surprises no one.