"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
-Harold MacMillan,
I have a question for Hollywood. What is with all of the ass shots recently?! In the past week I have seen two films with butt shots. Titan AE and Rugrats In Paris both showed animated butt shots. There is a scene in Big Momma's House that totally crosses the line. A big hefty rear end on an elderly woman sticking right out at us. If I wanted to see big senior booty I would hide out around the shower area of a rest home. This was just uncalled for.
Cross dressing comedies have always been popular with movie fans. People like seeing men on film dress like women unless it is someone like RuPaul. Now we have Big Momma's House out on video. Get ready to see the untalented Martin Lawrence run around in a dress and fall in love with a woman (Nia Long) and her child (Jascha Washington). Didn't I see something like this bit in Tootsie?
In fact the film tries to rip off many of the great cross dressing movies. Dressing himself up as a 350 pound old woman Lawrence looks and acts a lot like Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. Only the humor is not even half as inspired and Martin Lawrence is about as believable a woman as Al Gore is believable as a good presidential candidate. I wonder if, like Gore, Lawrence constantly lies, cheats, and whines like a two year old when he does not get what he wants?
Lawrence stars as FBI agent Malcolm who is after a bank robber named Lester (Terrence Howard) an escapee from prison. He and his partner John (Paul Giamatti) must get to the person they think is his partner in crime, Sherry (Nia Long). The agents are convinced that Sherry is hiding 2 million dollars of the money Lester has stolen.
Malcolm and John know exactly where Sherry and her son are headed It is to the house of the woman who helped raise Sherry, her grandmother, aka Big Momma (Ella Mitchell). They go into that neighborhood undercover to stake out Big Momma's house. When an emergency comes up, Big Momma takes off to be with family before Sherry even arrives. This could blow Malcolm's whole plan. What does he do? He becomes Big Momma himself and everyone in the movie is too stupid to notice.
Everything about this film reeks of stupidity. The only part I laughed at was when Malcolm is doing karate with Sherry's son and the kid knocks him down. Lawrence deserves that for making such horrible films. He clearly belongs back on mediocre sitcom TV.
Giamatti and Long are pleasing and the makeup job on Lawrence is great but it does not makeup for the horrible execution. Other cross dressing films have been fall down funny so it’s sad when this one isn’t. Maybe Lawrence get better as time goes on. He just needs better matrial. I have not thought he has been funny in any of his films except for Life, where he got find support from Eddie Murphy.
The failed jokes and scenes in Big Momma just kept coming though. All we could do is just sit there and groan. It really uses every cliche in the book, and leaves nothing to the imagination. It makes you wonder why it made so much money. Will audiences flock to and enjoy any dumb movie? I think that if they made a movie starring Martin Lawrence and Adam Sandler where the two just sat there for two hours speaking Pig Latin it would make $125 million domestically. I need to stop now before I give Hollywood anymore ideas for annoying film premises.
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