Seeing a picture of Kurtis with Canetti, Malcolm realizes that he is the friend, and tries to find out more about the music box. While scoping out the library, Big Momma encounters security guard Kurtis Kool ( Faizon Love), who attempts to woo her while giving a tour. The headmistress announces that a historic music box has been stolen from the library, and Malcolm deduces that this music box contains the flash drive. Surrounded by attractive young women, Trent nearly blows his cover, but manages to befriend a girl named Haley Robinson ( Jessica Lucas). Big Momma takes a job as a house mother at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts, while Charmaine is enrolled as a student. Malcolm once again becomes Sherry's grandmother, Big Momma, and also disguises Trent as an obese girl named "Charmaine", Big Momma's great-niece. Malcolm eventually rescues Trent and they escape, but since Trent's car was left at the scene Malcolm knows the gang members will be able to track them down so Malcolm and Trent are forced to hide undercover. Canetti ( Max Casella) reveals that the flash drive is empty and a duplicate is hidden with a friend at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts.ĭuring the exchange, Canetti's cover is blown and he is killed, which Trent witnesses.
Malcolm, in an attempt to capture Russian gang member Chirkoff ( Tony Curran), uses an informant named Canetti to deliver a flash drive to the gang, while Trent attempts to ambush Malcolm on the job.
When Malcolm refuses, Trent's best friends encourage him to ambush Malcolm on the job in order to obtain the signature. However, Trent is uninterested and instead wants Malcolm to sign a recording contract for him since he is underage. Jackson), has been accepted to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. FBI agent Malcolm Turner ( Martin Lawrence) is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce ( Brandon T. And while sharing a dorm room may not be the ideal way to get a little dad and teen bonding time, it seems that both Malcolm and Trent learn a thing or two about the other that contributes to a better footing for this stepfather and son relationship. Still the filmmakers manage to pull off the story with less parental concerns than previous Big Momma movies.
(I’m sure the first rule of FBI surveillance is to turn the lights off so the criminals aren’t watching you watch them.) Unfortunately, this script is often as cumbersome as the characters’ prosthetic chests, with gapping plot holes, useless scenes and illogical scenarios all contributing. Yet, despite the circumstances, the sexual element is smaller than it could be, even when Big Momma is talked into posing in the nude for an art class. The result is plenty of sexually charged dialogue and innuendo along with some crude anatomical slang terms. While Malcolm hunts for the location of the loaded flash drive and wards off advances from the school’s handyman (Faizon Love), Trent tries-often unsuccessfully-to control his male impulses, especially when he is invited to attend a girls’ pajama party. However, putting a 17-year-old boy (played by a 27-year-old actor) in a female dorm is more dangerous than leaving him out to face the thugs (Henri Lubatti, Lorenzo Pisoni) who want him dead.