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Also opening: Nanny 911 for Big Momma
By STEVE PERSALL
Published January 26, 2006
Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man) and Terrence Howard (Hustle and Flow, Crash) are Academy Award contenders now, so nobody expects them to reprise their roles from 2000's crudely successful comedy Big Momma's House. Martin Lawrence's career isn't nearly as charmed, so the idea of making Big Momma's House 2 (PG-13) sounds good.
Lawrence again plays FBI agent Malcolm Turner, whose cross-dressing disguise and senior citizen stereotyping in the original helped protect a federal witness. Turner again breaks out the fat suit, gray wig and frumpy dresses to pose as a nanny hired by a murder suspect (Emily Proctor). Turner juggles the investigation, his holdover girlfriend (Nia Long) from the first movie and three dysfunctional children.
Twentieth Century Fox didn't make Big Momma's House 2 available to critics in time for Weekend.
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