Search Review Archive:



Brought to you by
Centerstage Chicago



Big Momma's House
2000, Rated PG-13
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Buy it from
from Amazon

Starring Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, et al. Released to DVD on November 14, 2000.

[Photo]

Maybe I'm too old. Or too refined. Or too intellectual. Whatever the case, I fail to see where the humor is in watching a fat old woman with diarrhea fall onto a toilet exclaiming "Oh, child", while evacuating her entire lunch into the porcelain God. Of course, I failed to see where the rest of the supposed humor was in the lackluster comedy about an FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) who goes undercover as a big, fat, black woman in an attempt to recapture an escaped convict. And even though this was a work of pure fiction, I was still insulted that director Raja Gosnell thought I would accept (and find amusing) the aforementioned undercover agent posing as the 350 pound woman dunking in a pick-up basketball game. This was one of the most offensive movies of the year.

(c) Stumped, 1998-2004