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Big Momma's House
20th Century Fox Film Corp.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude humor including sexual innuendo, and for language and some violence
Starring
Martin Lawrence,
Nia Long,
and
Paul Giamatti
Disguised as an old lady, an FBI agent (Lawrence) attempts to protect a beautiful federal witness and her son.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Darryl Quarles (also story)
Don Rhymer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Raja Gosnell
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 28, 2000
Video: November 14, 2000
Theatrical: June 2, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
98 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany / USA |

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75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
When all's said and done, it turns out to be quite sweet-natured. OK. I laughed. So sue me.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence plus latex equals laughs.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
A high-spirited, big-bottomed Polaroid of the comedian in a fat suit.
63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
There's something about a plus-size floral housedress that brings out the best in many male comics, and Lawrence is no exception.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
My guess is that the film will appeal equally to broad-minded 10-year-olds and their grandparents.

63
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
The kind of stupid-funny movie that should only be seen in a crowded theater.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It keeps its promise to throw an hour and a half of lively entertainment at audiences.
60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
If you're not rolling in the aisles, you're definitely in the wrong theater.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Big Momma's got game, but she doesn't have much else.

50
TV Guide
Stephen Miller
Lawrence -- with the help of Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Greg Cannom ("Mrs. Doubtfire") -- has created yet another prosthetic screen wonder.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
How special.
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.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Neither good nor terrible.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A bad, bad movie...It's loud and dumb and it wastes a good cast on a ludicrous script.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Intermittently funny, often vulgar.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Lawrence is so ON that he appears to be gunning for clockwork bursts of audience approval.

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.
30
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Fitfully amusing.

20
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
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.

20
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
If Big Momma's House isn't as bad as you imagined, then you've no imagination at all.

20
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
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.

20
LA Weekly
Ron Stringer
Yo momma so fat, when she gets in an elevator, it has to go down. Had enough?

15
TNT RoughCut
J. Rentilly
A frenetic, aggressively unfunny one-joke merging of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Tootsie."
10
Film.com
Sean Means
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.

10
Film.com
Tom Keogh
This is pretty much a lazy film with a few lighthearted moments and no substance.


The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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