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Avg. Critic Score: 34 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | David Hiltbrand

    BMH2 is a harmless, genial outing, a comedy that is amusing without ever rising to the level of funny. You sit through the film with a smile on your face, waiting for the laughs that never come. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly |

    House 2 may never elicit more than mild chuckles, but when Momma teaches the Fullers a few lessons about family, it's heartfelt without being syrupy. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Completely unnecessary but painless, like dentistry performed by mimes. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]

    This could be the start of an awful new genre: Nannies Gone Wild. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Anita Gates

    Inconsequential sequel for the undemanding moviegoer. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    If state-of-the-art cross-gender fat suits and drunken Chihuahuas were the stuff of comic genius, Big Momma's House 2 still wouldn't be very funny. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    This isn't your father's cross-dressing. At the same time, the science of comedy attains a new level of appreciation, since hardly anything about this sluggish sequel to the 2000 box office hit comes close to being funny. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    If there is a casting agent in hell, Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry will soon put on their fat suits as Big Momma and Madea Simmons and show up as a tag team in a big-screen Wrestlemania. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Brian Lowry

    So episodic and flat it should be a letdown even to those amused by the original. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    The result is an incredibly disorganized movie with a few funny scenes -- most of which are revealed in the commercials. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Crude sequel lacks the original's scant appeal.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie pushes the PG-13 envelope, most often at the expense of female bodies. Accusations and suggestions of sexism and anti-Semitism are uttered as jokes. Big Momma's influence on the girls might be considered sketchy: She says she carries a "blade in my girdle," then asks Molly to reach inside to get it; she teaches Carrie to dance provocatively for her cheerleading team's routine. As an FBI agent, Malcolm engages in violence, chasing, shooting at, and beating up culprits. Characters use profanity, drink, and allude to drugs.
  • Families can talk about the Fuller family's lack of communication. How do the parents learn to be more attentive to each other and to their children after spending time with Big Momma? How does everyone learn that lying is bad?
  • Since much of the movie's humor relates to Big Momma's size, families can talk about whether or not it's appropriate to laugh at someone's appearance.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: More obnoxious than anything else, with nonstop crude humor. Women are frequently presented as sexualized objects; anti-Semitism is used as a punchline. Lots of jokes at the expense of Big Momma's size.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Few characters can be considered positive role models -- though Malcolm is ostensibly working to bring a criminal to justice, his influence on the movie's other characters is iffy at best.
What to watch for
  • violence false2 Violence: Opens with shooting of unknown character; Malcolm's bird costume catches on fire; guns are used by FBI agents and criminals; description of dog's death by a woodchipper; vehicular chase scenes; fisticuffs at Bingo game; Malcolm beats up thugs.
  • sex false3 Sex: Lots of sex-related material for a PG-13, including frequent innuendo and references to sex, cleavage/references to breasts, women in lingerie/tiny bathing suits, racy lyrics, partial nudity in spa scenes, some suggestive dancing, etc.
  • language false3 Language: General obnoxiousness ("we suck"), mild cursing ("hell," "damn," "bastard," "oh my God"), sexual allusions/references to body parts ("booty," "put a bug up your ass," "fun bags"; "naked pictures of Billy Dee"), Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," a joke about "BM" and "VD."
  • consumerism false2 Consumerism: Brillo pads; Lucky Charms cereal; Victoria's Secret models at the spa.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Reference to a roach clip and "ack-ack" (slang for marijuana or heroin-laced cigarette); Big Momma gets a depressed Chihuahua drunk with tequila (and then says "The dog's higher than a Georgia pine"); a drunk woman at a Bingo game tries to hit Big Momma.
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