Those enticed by the potential fireworks of a Robert De Niro/Al Pacino team-up are in for a major disappointment, as the two stars are wasted in a serial-killer thriller so rife with plot holes that one wonders why the two actors even bothered.
Big Momma's House 2 is precisely what you'd expect from a sequel whose title no longer has any affiliation with the current "story": a few harmless, lowbrow laughs, all of which are forever indebted to the formulas of crap past.
Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy fans will admire the striking visual effects, laugh at familiar scenes and leave the theater satisfied, though a little disappointed with the left-out bits. But the inside jokes and loopy antics could throw the general population into a panic--a violation of the Guide's golden rule.