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Big Momma's House 2

Overview


Genre :

Comedy, Action

Release Date :

January 27, 2006

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

John P. Whitesell

Starring :

Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Zachary Levi, Emily Procter, Marisol Nichols, Kat Dennings, Sarah Brown, Mark Moses, Josh Flitter, William Ragsdale

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

“..the story unspools with a decided lack of comic energy..”
by Sheri Linden [The Hollywood Reporter]
2 of 4

“..passably entertaining, mildly funny and consistently stupid..”
by Matt Pais [Chicago Tribune]
2 of 5

“..not a funny one..”
by [E! Online]
“..mildly, amiably funny, in a juvenile way..”
by Philippa Hawker [The Sydney Morning Herald]
3.5 of 5

“..may never elicit more than mild chuckles..”
by Nicholas Fonseca [Entertainment Weekly]
2 of 4

“..lacks the inspiration and the laugh quotient of its prototype, "Mrs. Doubtfire."..”
by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
1 of 4

“..hardly anything about this sluggish sequel to the 2000 box office hit comes close to being funny..”
by Robert Abele [Newsday]
1 of 5

“..A premise which was only mildly funny in the first place has now been flogged to death by this sequel..”
by David Mercier [FilmJudge]
1 of 4

“..a cross-dressing cavalcade of bad ideas and worse performances..”
by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Zak Santucci [The Cinema Source]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Christy Lemire [The Dallas Morning News]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Vince Leo [Qwipster's Movie Reviews]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Stan Urankar [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Brian Orndorf [FilmJerk]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Kathy Cano Murillo [The Arizona Republic]
1.5 of 5
Reviewed by Scott Gwin [Cinema Blend]
1.5 of 5
Reviewed by Jim Slotek [Jam! Movies]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Frank Ochieng [MovieEye]
1 of 4
Reviewed by Tim Knight [Reel]
1 of 5
Reviewed by David Edwards [London Daily Mirror]
1 of 4
Reviewed by John Monaghan [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
1 of 5
Reviewed by Matthew Turner [ViewLondon]
1 of 5
Reviewed by Neil Smith [BBC Films]
1 of 5
Reviewed by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic]
1 of 5
Reviewed by Peter Sobczynski [EFilmCritic]
0.5 of 5
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten [Austin Chronicle]
0.5 of 4
Reviewed by Keith Uhlich [Slant Magazine]
Reviewed by MaryAnn Johanson [The Flick Filosopher]
Reviewed by Ron Yamauchi [Georgia Straight]

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