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Big Momma's House
- Review Date: May 19, 2003
- PG-13
- Genre: Comedy
- 2000
Common Sense Media says
Funny Martin Lawrence in drag with potty jokes.
Parents say
QUALITY
Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this movie contains a lot of sexual humor and potty jokes. There is brief nudity, including the real Big Momma's backside. Violence includes a menacing bad guy, characters in peril, fighting, and gunplay.
What's the story?
In BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE, FBI agents Malcolm (Martin Lawrence) and John (Paul Giamatti) are trying to track down escaped prisoner Lester (Terrence Howard). They set up a stakeout across the street from the home of Big Momma, the grandmother of Lester's former girlfriend Sherry (Nia Long). Sherry arrives just as Big Momma leaves town, so Malcolm, a master of disguise, puts on a fat suit and a flowered housedress and is there to greet Sherry and her son Trent with open arms.
Is it any good?
The film premise is promising, but instead of a script, we get a series of situations, strung together in a lackluster story that under-uses its three talented stars. Big Momma has to deliver a baby! Big Momma kicks butt at karate and basketball! Sherry gets scared and crawls into bed with Big Momma! Oh, and by the way, Malcolm has to struggle with his feelings for Sherry because he thinks she was Lester's accomplice and besides, he starts off the movie explaining that a wife and family are just a distraction for a lawman.
Co-producer Lawrence is marvelous at times, using his eyes and body to hilarious effect, and showing a potential for tenderness and heart so enticing that we wish for more. Nia Long has sweetness, toughness, and humor, and it's always a pleasure to see talented character actor Paul Giamatti. But the script is very weak, relying heavily on bathroom humor, jokes about sexy old people, and Momma's highly un-grandmotherly feelings for Sherry. Inconsistencies of plot and character keep the audience from connecting to the material.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about Sherry's mistake and how she handled it, stereotypes of the elderly, how we decide whom to trust, and the way that families support each other through bad times.
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love it!
15 and up my butt. saw this movie when i was ten. and all i could do was memorize lines from the movie and entertain adults for hours.
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Kid, 9 years old
March 2, 2011
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bad language
personally im 8 but im tellin you lots of cursing bmh 2 is funnier when the bm spays the dog with perfume
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very funny
funny movie. for minors the second one is better
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bad
well its a preety bad movie with over the top sexual humor but there is a birth scene which i think was preety disturbing and did not enoy watching my little brother would be able to see this movie if it wasent for the sexual humor and the birth scene
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15+........ you guys are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
This is a funny movie with Martin Lawrence. The main issue in the movie is the cuss words. some s@$T is used alot. No F bomb. One of my favorite movies. The scene about the baby might fly through youngsters' heads. I saw it with my Aunt Kathey as the Big Pink. The real Big Momma shows her big butt(which is not neccasary). It is 12+. If you're younger you should watch it on tv. Cedric's in it-well duhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!. 15+ is wrong. Nia Long is also great. I loved the movie!
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lol because it is funny!
Well the movie is asome i love it also there might be some parts were it shows people haveing sex or something like that ok so it's not kids under 13 ok!
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| Studio: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Director: | Raja Gosnell |
| Cast: | Ella Mitchell, Martin Lawrence, Nia Long |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Theatrical release date: | June 2, 2000 |
| DVD release date: | March 6, 2001 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | gross humor, language, sexual references |
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