{"id":129,"date":"2006-02-10T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-02-11T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T01:00:20","slug":"big-mommas-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/02\/10\/big-mommas-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Momma&#8217;s House 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Lawrence returns for the sequel to 2000 comedy that made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=bigmommashouse.htm\" target=\"_self\">an inexplicable amount of money at the box office<\/a>&nbsp;and the result is just as bad. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like the first film, it is basically an extended riff on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107614\/\" target=\"_self\">Mrs Doubtfire<\/a> with Martin Lawrence instead of Robin Williams dressing up as an older woman. The plot here sees Lawrence go undercover as a nanny to a family in the hope of thwarting a threat to national security but essentially, this is a clumsy selection of unfunny situations centred on a man in a dress. Lowlights include the improbably quick transformations into Big Momma, a seemingly endless supply of laboured and truly unfunny gags laboured gags and a cheesy underbelly of &#8216;family is important &#8216; sentimentality. Despite all this, the stone faced reaction of the critics I saw it with <em>was<\/em> funny in a surreal way. At the climax &#8211; which seems to hint strongly of a Big Momma&#8217;s House 3 on the horizon &#8211;&nbsp;someone cried &quot;Christ!&quot; in desperation. Need I say any more? (20th Century Fox, PG)<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigmommashouse2.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Official Site<\/a><br \/>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0421729\/\" target=\"_self\">IMDb Link<\/a><br \/>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/bigmommashouse2\" target=\"_self\">Reviews at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lawrence returns for the sequel to 2000 comedy that made an inexplicable amount of money at the box office and the result is just as bad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}