| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Eight different characters, all played by Murphy, all convincing, each with its own personality. This is not just a stunt. It is some kind of brilliance.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
It's a half-life better than Martin Lawrence treading similar, simpler water in "Big Momma's House."
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Frequently hilarious.
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| 75 |
USA Today
When have we seen the same performer playing both parts in a sexual situation? It happens here, not once but twice.
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| 70 |
TNT RoughCut
Murphy still knows how to please a crowd.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Nothing less than stunning: a slapstick ballet of choreographed buffoonery.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Despite greater resources and high-tech whiz bang than the first movie, has a lot more turkey than dinner.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
This is a parlor trick, but it's a hell of a good one.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
Too often, the movie is more forced and frantic than actually funny.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Murphy is remarkably convincing -- even endearing -- as each of the characters.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Half a movie at best. The broad humor at times derails Mr. Murphy's performances, but the movie provides a vehicle for him to display his reach.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
It's just like Paul McCartney's first solo album after the Beatles broke up; he played all the instruments himself -- because he could.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Yes, bestiality in a PG-13 movie. It's the end of life as we know it.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Defiantly sophomoric, often hilarious and crude as all get-out.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Character-rich, but plot-poor.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Has some very funny moments, it is weighed down by gooey sentimentality.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
The bloom is off the rose due to cynical rehash.
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
The "Citizen Kane" of flatulence.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
He (Murphy) can't make chicken a la king from the chicken manure supplied by the writers.
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| 38 |
New York Post
This inferior sequel is doomed by a lousy - and extremely vulgar - script.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
An amazing technical accomplishment that never becomes a coherent movie.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Sporadically funny, the film seems weighted down, literally, with bulging, bulbous Murphys flatulating endlessly.
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| 30 |
Variety
Be prepared to laugh less at a lot more of the same thing in this overbearing but underwhelming sequel.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Half vulgar and funny, half tedious and cloying; despite the shameless laughs, it's still a disappointment.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
The star's over-the-top energy isn't enough to make this hopelessly vulgar, numbingly repetitious farce worth watching.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
An annoying, unclever, unlikable movie.
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| 20 |
Newsweek
What was a ragged but often hilarious charmer has been genetically altered into a deafening and desperate mutant.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Wastes most of its 110 minutes making impotent jokes about male sexual behavior and the repugnance of old women.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Brian Parks
Suffers from a serious case of sophomore slump.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
It will linger like a foul odor or the taste of tinfoil between the teeth.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Utterly unnecessary sequel.
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