Big Momma's House 2 (2006) poster
2006 · comedy · crime · spy

Big Momma's House 2

Directed by John Whitesell1h 39m2006
ElsewhereIMDb4.848kRT5%Metacritic34
  • warm
  • brisk
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper-class kids in order to spy on their computer hacker father.

Our read · Big Momma's House 2 (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want broad Martin Lawrence slapstick with zero pretensions tonight.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 4attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightCross-dressing gags and juvenile humor make you wince instantly.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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