4/10
Big Momma's House
23 November 2021
If Eddie Murphy can get into a latex fat suit and be funny.

Martin Lawrence said: Hold my beer.

In Big Momma's House he plays Malcolm a FBI agent and a master of disguise.

When Lester Vesco (Terrence Howard) a bank robber escapes prison. Malcolm and his partner John (Paul Giamatti) figure he will hook up with ex girlfriend and the mother of his child Sherry Pierce. She worked in the bank that Lester robbed and she might had colluded with him.

Malcolm disguises himself as Sherry's estranged grandmother, Hattie Mae Pierce. He hopes she will confess of her involvement to the robbery as the money was never recovered.

Big Mamma is the big woman in the local neighbourhood. She is the midwife, she attracts lecherous old men, some of her neighbours are jealous of her and Malcolm falls for Sherry.

Big Momma's House is a low brow action comedy. It was a box office hit but it is a silly one joke movie having to rely on lavatorial humour for some of the funny bits.

Surprisingly the film now features two Oscar nominees and one Oscar winner as Octavia Spencer has a small role.
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