Big Momma's House 2

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Big Momma's House 2

Promotional Poster for Big Momma's House 2
Directed by John Whitesell
Produced by David T. Friendly
Michael Green
Written by Don Rhymer
Starring Martin Lawrence
Nia Long
Emily Procter
Zachary Levi
Mark Moses
Music by George S. Clinton
Cinematography Mark Irwin
Editing by Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Regency Enterprises
Release date(s) January 27, 2006
Running time 99 min.
Language English
Preceded by Big Momma's House (2000)
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Big Momma's House 2 is a 2006 comedy starring Martin Lawrence and co-starring Nia Long, Emily Procter, Zachary Levi and Mark Moses. It is the sequel to 2000's Big Momma's House. It was released on January 27, 2006. The movie was critically panned as critics felt that a sequel was unnecessary. For some time the movie had been placed in IMDB's bottom 100. However, it had a decent showing at the box office. The film was released on DVD on May 9. An Unrated version has been released in the summer of 2007.

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[edit] Plot

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Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) has been assigned a desk job as FBI PR officer since he wanted to be with his wife during her delivery. An incident occurs at the Orange County where his former partner is killed while posing undercover. His partner was doing surveillance on a former Military Intelligence Specialist by the name of Tom Fuller (Mark Moses) who had retired and worked for a private corporation. The FBI had reasons to believe that he was developing a virus which will create back doors on all data stored on FBI/NSA's computers. Turner, deeply saddened by this incident, asks his chief permission to go to Orange County, but is refused. On the pretext of attending a safety conference, Turner leaves his home, taking with him the entire "Big Momma" costumes.

Turner goes undercover as the nanny in Fuller's house, and beats other candidates for the nanny position. Turner arrives and sits down with the other candidates and humiliates them out of the house by considering one candidate a nudist, the other one as firing the "ak ak gun", and humiliates and blows the cover of another FBI agent by pulling out the agent's pistol. Turner then meets the kids, who are Carrie, a 7-year old cheerleader, Andrew, a 3-year old child who loves to jump off heights, and cannot talk, and Molly, a 15-year old goth girl. After severely neglecting her tasks, she is fired, but Mrs. Fuller (Emily Procter) changes her mind at the last minute.

Big Momma is soon accepted within the household and becomes a daily part of their lives. Tasks such as accompanying Mrs. Fuller to the spa, taking the family to the beach, watching out for trouble, or simply playing a game of bingo (intending to find out the password for the program) soon become part of her routine.

After he finds out the password for Mr. Fuller, he is called by Molly who tells him that she needs him at a nightclub, and is really scared. Malcolm/Big Momma goes at once, only to find that Molly was lured there by Fuller's bosses, who kidnap her and Malcolm.

Big Momma has a blade, which Molly reaches for and uses to free the two. Big Momma sees Tom giving a Chinese man a disc, he puts it in his laptop (and is granted full access to FBI data), and he points on a sea-doo jumping it onto the deck, sending it into 2 terrorists and landing on one herself. She helps Tom the way Big Momma handles them. Big Momma and Tom leave, but one of the terrorists fires a gun at Big Momma. The FBI shows up, and Big Momma's co-worker is given handcuffs to put on Tom, but Big Momma tells the woman in charge that Tom's family was threatened, and that no charges should be filed. They agree, and the case is solved.

After this, Big Momma goes to the girls' state championships. Their stuntwoman has broken her leg, Big Momma help them out by doing the stunts herself. The film ends with Big Momma leaving a letter telling the Fullers that she must go on, and that she might one day be at their door.

[edit] Cast

Paul Giamatti, for some reason or other, declined the opportunity to reprise his role as Malcolm's sidekick John from the previous film.

[edit] Reception

As of March 13, 2007, the film has grossed a total of $70 million at the U.S. box office.

In online review website Rotten Tomatoes this ranked #40 all time worst rated films, with a rating of 5%, one reviewer claiming "you'd have more fun poking out your own eyes".[citation needed]

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Preceded by
Underworld: Evolution		 Box office number-one films of 2006 (USA)
January 29, 2006		 Succeeded by
When a Stranger Calls