Big Momma's House 2 (2006)

An FBI agent reprises his disguise as a corpulent old lady and takes a job as a nanny in a crime suspect's house.

Director:

John Whitesell

Writers:

Don Rhymer, Darryl Quarles (characters)

Stars:

Martin Lawrence, Emily Procter, Nia Long

1 win & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Martin Lawrence	...	Malcolm / Big Momma
Nia Long	...	Sherri
Emily Procter	...	Leah Fuller
Zachary Levi	...	Kevin
Mark Moses	...	Tom Fuller
Kat Dennings	...	Molly
Chloë Grace Moretz	...	Carrie (as Chloe Grace Moretz)
Marisol Nichols	...	Liliana Morales
Josh Flitter	...	Stewart
Dan Lauria	...	Crawford
Jascha Washington	...	Trent
Jeanene Fox	...	Yasmeen
Preston Shores	...	Andrew
Trevor Shores	...	Andrew
Sarah Brown	...	Constance (as Sarah Joy Brown)

Storyline

Undercover Agent Malcolm Turner is back and this time he's out to expose the suspected designer of a deadly computer "worm" that would allow outside forces access to sophistical and critical government intelligence files. But unfortunately, the only way the crafty agent can get next to the worm's creator, Tom Fuller, is to access the programmer's Orange County home as the new "nanny" to Fuller and his wife Leah's children: toddler Andrew and his two older sisters, Carrie and Molly. This means that Malcolm must once again rely on his sure-fire alter ego, the take-no-prisoners Hattie Mae Pierce, a.k.a. "Big Momma," to bring down the bad guys and prove that a woman's work is never done! But once undercover, the job proves another tough juggling act for Big Momma as "she" must manage the hectic lives of the three Fuller kids, keep up with their myriad of daily activities, and handle the many household chores, all while secretly trying to dig up information on Tom's computer virus. Of ...

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Plot Keywords:

repeat sequel | undercover | fbi | nanny | fbi agent | 

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Taglines:

The Momma of all Comedies is Back.

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some sexual humor and a humorous drug reference

Details

Official Sites:

20th Century Fox [France] Twentieth Century Fox [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 January 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mi abuela es un peligro 2

Filming Locations:

Costa Mesa, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$27,736,056, 29 January 2006, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$70,165,972

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$138,259,062

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Regency Enterprises, Deep River Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The dog who played Pancho (the Fuller family's dog) is a chihuahua named Danny.

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Goofs

When Andrew jumps off the bunk bed onto the mat of alphabet letters, the letter "S" is missing.

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Quotes

Leah Fuller: If you'd checked the schedule you would've seen that Carrie had a violin lesson, and Andrew had tutoring.
Malcolm: Tutoring? He's only 2 years old.

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Connections

References Live with Kelly and Ryan (1988)

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Soundtracks

Round for Round
Written by Jasmin Lopez and J.R. Rotem (as Jonathan Rotem)
Performed by Jasmin Lopez
Courtesy of Southside Independent

User Reviews

Middling comedy with some surprises

If you're looking for an intellectual comedy or even something with some actual substance to it, this is not the movie to go to. It is the type of movie you go to, to turn off your brain and just take in some escapist entertainment. It does the job decently, better than most of the other light comedies out there. But what really surprises is how relatively few stupid moments come throughout the movie. A lesser-quality movie would have gone for the easy jokes about dorky white people vs. smooth black people. A lesser flick would have had some of the characters be less perceptive and observant than they actually ended up turning out to be. Poorer-quality fare would have turned this movie into something approaching blaxploitation, where all parties involved ended up humiliated by the experience.

This didn't do any of the aforementioned. Certain characters who could have been written as dumber were actually written as credibly perceptive. Certain scenarios that could have been played out as ridiculous ended up being plausible. There was less of a black/white good vs. evil conundrum going on in this movie, and the suspense involved actually seemed worth it instead of just being suspense for suspense's sake. I don't think there was one moment in the whole film where I was rolling my eyes going, "OH COME ON," the way I was throughout the last film I was obliged to go see, this year's remake of Last Holiday.

Had the premise been more original, had the comedy been more sharply written, more intelligent, I would have been inclined to give this comedy ten stars. It really is one of the better commercial movies to be released in Hollywood over the last five years. It even manages to be better than its predecessor. However, the comedy was actually quite dull, pedestrian, uninvolved, and unintellectual, which means it earns six stars out of ten. Just barely passable, but a heck of a lot better than its contemporaries.