One is tempted to check whether the director’s name is real or not. After all, this is a Martin Lawrence comedy and, in the US, it has to be a ‘black sell’ rather than a ‘white sell’. Obviously, a lot of people enjoy Martin Lawrence comedies.

He is clearly popular when he teams with Will Smith in Bad Boys movies. And, for ten years, he has been making a lot of come and go, hit and miss, comedies. Big Momma’s House in which he was a detective doing a Mrs Doubtfire was one if his more successful outings. Success suggests a franchise, a franchise means a sequel and here it is.

Lawrence is once again detective Malcolm Turner but is on desk duty as his wife is expecting. But, of course, he is itching to get on a case again – and applies for a nanny’s job as Big Momma. That gives him the opportunity to do a lot of mugging as the oversized Momma, to be the substitute parent figure for neglected and pressurised kids and to do a whole lot of gymnastics dressed (and undressed) as Big Momma.

The plot involves computer and terrorism conspiracies, murder and blackmail, abduction. But, this is more of a PG show, so it is all basically in good fun. The plot lines make huge assumptions and leaps that defy a realistic interpretation – but a realistic interpretation is to miss the point of a cheerful, time-passing entertainment.

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