| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
When all's said and done, it turns out to be quite sweet-natured. OK. I laughed. So sue me.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence plus latex equals laughs.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
A high-spirited, big-bottomed Polaroid of the comedian in a fat suit.
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| 63 |
USA Today
There's something about a plus-size floral housedress that brings out the best in many male comics, and Lawrence is no exception.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
My guess is that the film will appeal equally to broad-minded 10-year-olds and their grandparents.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
The kind of stupid-funny movie that should only be seen in a crowded theater.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
It keeps its promise to throw an hour and a half of lively entertainment at audiences.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
If you're not rolling in the aisles, you're definitely in the wrong theater.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Big Momma's got game, but she doesn't have much else.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Lawrence -- with the help of Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Greg Cannom ("Mrs. Doubtfire") -- has created yet another prosthetic screen wonder.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
How special.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Nekesa Mumbi Moody
The formulaic screenplay has enough funny moments to keep the audience from concentrating on the predictability of it all.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Any movie that employs an oven mitt and a plumber's friend in a childbirth scene cannot be all bad, and I laughed a lot.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Neither good nor terrible.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
A bad, bad movie...It's loud and dumb and it wastes a good cast on a ludicrous script.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Intermittently funny, often vulgar.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
Lawrence is so ON that he appears to be gunning for clockwork bursts of audience approval.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Robin Rauzi
If you think that Martin Lawrence dressed up as a hefty grandmother is funny, be gone with you .For the rest of you, you'd be better off just taking a ride on the bus. The script.. .is off and stumbling over unfunny one-liners.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Fitfully amusing.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Ends up waddling its way toward gentler, mistier climes, stopping just shy of "Doubtfire" country. It doesn't run out of smelly steam so much as downshift and become a different movie.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
If Big Momma's House isn't as bad as you imagined, then you've no imagination at all.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader.
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| 20 |
Variety
The sight and sound of Lawrence in fat-lady drag remains engaging throughout; script may often let him down, forcing him to keep things afloat almost single-handedly.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Yo momma so fat, when she gets in an elevator, it has to go down. Had enough?
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| 15 |
TNT RoughCut
A frenetic, aggressively unfunny one-joke merging of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Tootsie."
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| 10 |
Film.com
So you'll laugh during Big Momma's House -- but the laughs are so negligible you'll probably forget them before you get to the parking lot.
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| 10 |
Film.com
This is pretty much a lazy film with a few lighthearted moments and no substance.
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