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starstarstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Elvis Mitchell - NY Times
starstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Michael Wilmington – Chicago Tribune
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
star Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
star James Berardinelli - ReelViews
star Bob Aulert - culturevulture.net

[P]rogresses from gross- out to legitimately gained hilarity to sentiment. When all's said and done, it turns out to be quite sweet-natured

- Bob Graham

[A] seemingly random collection of shots and scenes strung together with no concern for continuity, common sense, or an audience's intelligence

- Bob Aulert

Big Momma's House

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Martin Lawrence is a detective who must keep tabs on a woman and her son by going undercover as a large, overbearing Southern grandma known as “Big Momma.” Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Terrence Dashon Howard and Eric Arthur Linden. Director: Raja Gosnell (2000, PG-13)

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