RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
RT's Blu-ray HQ
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / Little Man
Little Man

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Little Man (2006)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
13 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:87

Fresh:11

Rotten:76

Average Rating:3.2/10

Consensus: Another gimmicky comedy from the Wayans brothers, Little Man comes with the requisite raunchiness, but forgot to bring the laughs.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor throughout, language and brief drug references

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $58,255,287

Synopsis: Despite small budgets and a lack of bona fide star power, the Wayans Brothers have proven to be one of the most commercially successful comedy teams in the Hollywood of the early 2000s. The... Despite small budgets and a lack of bona fide star power, the Wayans Brothers have proven to be one of the most commercially successful comedy teams in the Hollywood of the early 2000s. The brothers rose to fame in the 1990s via the IN LIVING COLOR sketch television show and later the gross-out satire-lite of the SCARY MOVIE series. Similar to their 2004 movie WHITE CHICKS--about two undercover black police officers posing as rich white girls--2006's LITTLE MAN is a raunchy crime caper that likewise uses a grotesque fish-out-of-water scenario as its comedic focal point. Marlon Wayans plays the diminutive and unquestionably weird-looking jewel thief who poses as a toddler in order to retrieve a diamond he hid with the childless-but-trying couple Daryl and Vanessa (played by Shawn Wayans and Kerry Washington). Hilarity ensues as the movie runs wild with a slew of breastfeeding jokes, crotch shots, and scatological humor that recognizes no boundaries. When Calvin's boss, Walken (Chazz Palminteri), tracks down the little man and his new family to snatch the diamond that is rightfully his, the movie turns into a familiar riff on HOME ALONE: when a criminal is after you, hit him in the crotch. Calvin and Daryl join together to defeat the evil Walken and his henchmen, and in the process learn a little something about what it means to love and be loved. To discuss matters of taste in the context of LITTLE MAN defeats the purpose of its mere existence--this movie revels in its own base-level humor. However, even the Wayans brothers themselves acknowledge that they are making silly movies for as broad an audience as possible. While some of the sex jokes are perhaps a little too raunchy for children, the movie is packed with sub-Looney Tunes tomfoolery, not to mention a Looney Tunes plot (remember when Bugs Bunny took in Baby-Face Finster? The Wayans brothers certainly do), making this perfect fodder for kids--or adults with a juvenile sense of humor. [More]

Starring: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, Tracy Morgan

Starring: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, Tracy Morgan, Chazz Palminteri

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans
Producer: Joe Roth
Composer: Teddy Castellucci
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 5 of 14

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Nov 7, 2006

[DVD Details]
 
 
  • Hired to steal the fabulous Queen Diamond, pint-sized jewel thief Calvin Sims (Marlon Wayans) and his dimwitted partner Percy (Tracy Morgan) stash the stone in Vanessa Edwards' (Kerry Washington, Ray) handbag when their getaway plans go uproariously awry. Discovering Vanessa's husband, Darryl (Shawn Wayans), who's hopelessly obsessed with becoming a father, Calvin trades in his duds for diapers and poses as an abandoned baby. Suffering through a host of hysterical humiliations and outrageous family outings, Calvin desperately tries to retrieve the gem before his cover is blown, and Darryl and Vanessa really cut him down to size. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans (White Chicks).
  • Source: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  •  
     
     
     

    Reviews for Little Man

    • T-Meter Critics
    • Top Critics
    • RT Community
    • My Critics
    • My Friends
    • DVD
     
     
    1 - 20 (sorted by date)
    Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 >> >|
    Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
     
     
    N/R

    Click to read the article

    Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
    04/23/09
    Tom Meek
    Tom Meek
    Boston Phoenix

    In spite of the admirable effort that the Wayans brothers went to in digitally transplanting Marlon Wayans head and facial expressions onto the two-foot-six-inch body of a nine-year-old actor, "Little Man" is a bawdy and violent comedy that rankles more t

    Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
    04/22/09
    Cole Smithey
    Cole Smithey
    ColeSmithey.com

    Click to read the article

    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    11/20/08
    Brian Marder
    Brian Marder
    Hollywood.com

    Click to read the article

    Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
    08/07/08
    Jim Lane
    Jim Lane
    Sacramento News & Review

    The work of the Wayans brothers, Little Man is even less funny than their last comedy, White Chicks, and enough to get them permanently evicted from the house of mirth.

    Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
    01/20/07
    Philip French
    Philip French
    Observer [UK]

    A slap-happy misadventure featuring Marlon Wayans as a foul-mouthed midget masquerading as a baby in order to retrieve a pilfered diamond from a childless couple.

    Full Review Source: BlackFilm.com | comment Comment
    01/04/07
    Kam Williams
    Kam Williams
    BlackFilm.com

    Slathers itself in scatology, crotch-punching, hilarious elder/child abuse, and a brutal ration of unearned sentiment.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    11/07/06
    Walter Chaw
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    There are some films that are hardly worth the trouble of watching: once you’ve got the central concept, you can pretty much run the movie in your head.

    Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
    09/05/06
    Paul Arendt
    Paul Arendt
    BBC

    Mere words, mere permutations of 26 paltry letters, are an inadequate resource for explaining how fatuous, unfunny, and profoundly un-entertaining it is to watch Marlon Wayans doing a goo-goo-ga fake-baby routine.

    Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
    09/02/06
    Peter Bradshaw
    Peter Bradshaw
    Guardian [UK]

    Slow-moving, tasteless and totally devoid of ingenuity or charisma, this is a gross one-joke monstrosity - and that joke wasn’t very funny in the first place.

    Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
    09/01/06
    David Edwards
    David Edwards
    Daily Mirror [UK]

    The Wayans filmmaking clan strikes with another idiotic compilation of bodily-function gags and lowbrow obnoxiousness masquerading as hip comedy.

    Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | comment Comment
    08/31/06
    Todd Jorgenson
    Todd Jorgenson
    Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

    It’s a concept, not a movie.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    08/31/06
    JM Tyree
    JM Tyree
    Time Out

    Abysmal comedy that's nonsensical, frequently offensive and almost entirely laugh-free.

    Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
    08/31/06
    Matthew Turner
    Matthew Turner
    ViewLondon

    If your taste runs to scatology and you find little people inherently funny, Little Man may be the movie for you.

    Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
    08/08/06
    Peter Canavese
    Peter Canavese
    Groucho Reviews

    Could you really have expected better from the people who made "White Chicks"?

    Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
    07/28/06
    Audrey Rock-Richardson
    Audrey Rock-Richardson
    Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

    [The Wayanses] collaborate on another forgettable farce drenched in vapid vulgarity...[a] pea-brained prank. Anyone game for White Chicks II?

    Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
    07/23/06
    Frank Ochieng
    Frank Ochieng
    Movie Eye

    I understand the satirical import of the race gags. But 97% of the movie will make you need a shower. Possibly two.

    Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
    07/23/06
    Marrit Ingman
    Marrit Ingman
    Austin Chronicle

    Tedious, snickering jokes about infant breast-feeding and adult-male boob lust? You got 'em, baby.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    07/22/06
    Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Entertainment Weekly
    Top Critic Icon Top Critic

    I'm not saying an R rating would have necessarily made Little Man a better movie, but at least it would have made it a more honest one.

    Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
    07/19/06
    Matt Brunson
    Matt Brunson
    Creative Loafing

    I honestly cannot think of anything worse that has been made in between the time the Lumiere Brothers photographed a train pulling into a station in 1895 and today.

    Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
    07/19/06
    Ken Hanke
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
     
     
    1 - 20 (sorted by date)
    Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 >> >|
    all

    Latest News for Little Man

    January 07, 2008: Marlon Wayans Enlists for G.I. Joe
    Say what you will about movies such as Little Man, but Marlon Wayans is officially a real American hero. More...

    December 10, 2007: Wayans Brothers Making Cop Movie Spoof
    The Wayans brothers are getting back into the spoofing business. More...

    July 13, 2007: Box Office Guru Preview: "Potter" Power Takes Control of Multiplexes
    The Hogwarts posse is back with the highly anticipated launch of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the fifth film in the blockbuster wizard series which has... More...

    February 27, 2007: 2006 Razzie Awards Announced; "Basic Instinct 2" Leads the Pack
    With the arrival of the Oscars comes the stench of the raspberries. The Razzie Awards, of course, which claims to "honor" the very worst of the past year's films ...... More...

    See All

    More DVDs

    Close
    Top Rentals
    Tomatometer Percentage Movie
    14% 14% The Ugly Truth
    98% 98% Up
    36% 36% G.I. Joe: The Rise of …
    52% 52% The Taking of Pelham 1…
    45% 45% Ice Age: Dawn of the D…

    More Rentals…

    New On DVD This Week
    Tomatometer Percentage Movie
    32% 32% Terminator Salvation
    44% 44% Night at the Museum: B…
    86% 86% A Christmas Tale
    60% 60% Paper Heart

    More New Releases…

    See All

    RT On Current TV

    The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current TV

    DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196 | More...

    Learn how you can be part of the show

    More...

    What’s Hot On RT

    Nine Pictures

    Nine Pictures

    Hottest poster ever? 14 pictures from Nine

    Disney Countdown

    Disney Countdown

    Look back on Disney's best animated movies!

    RT's Gift Guide

    RT's Gift Guide

    Give the best movies, gear, and more!

    Natalie Portman

    Natalie Portman

    See what her 10 best reviewed films are!

    Other News

    Close
    • Top Stories
    • Popular
    • Interviews
     
     

    Comments

     
     
    Top Stories
    Headlines Comments
      
    • Don't Hold Your Breath for Hancock 2 Source: HitFix
    0
    • Peter Berg Talks Battleship Source: CHUD
    0
    • Summit Ponders Twilight Finale Source: Variety
    84
    • First Look at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Source: USA Today
    32
    • Jeremy Renner Talks Hawkeye Possibilities Source: Superhero Hype
    14
    • Todd Phillips Talks The Hangover 2 Source: Entertainment Weekly
    18
    • Tron Legacy Duo Heading into The Black Hole Source: Hollywood Reporter
    9
    • First Iron Man 2 Poster Released Source: Yahoo! Movies
    80
    • Ryan Reynolds Talks Green Lantern Source: MTV
    16
    • Paul Greengrass Quits Fourth Bourne Source: The Playlist
    36
    Popular
    Headlines Comments
      
    • Ban Them All! 10 Infamously Controversial Movies
    96
    • Friday Harvest: The Road, Avatar, and more!
    96
    • 5 Facts About The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    91
    • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Vampires and Football Break Thanksgiving Records
    35
    • Weekly Ketchup: Zombieland 2 in 3D?
    28
    • Five Favorite Films With Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer
    24
    • Total Recall: Natalie Portman's Best Movies
    18
    • RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Terminator Salvation and a Smithsonian Battle
    17
    • Five Favorite Films with Jesse Ventura
    12
    • Duncan Jones Reteams With Kevin Spacey
    5
    Interviews
    Headlines Comments
      
    • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
    17
    • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
    11
    • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
    21
    • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
    8
    • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
    15
    • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
    22
    • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
    9
    • Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film
    28
    • Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine; Possible Sequel
    28
    • Duncan Jones talks Moon, Sam Rockwell, and Mute
    14
     
     

    Sponsored Links

    Around The Network

    • Little Man at Rotten Tomatoes
    • Little Man at IGN
    • Little Man at AskMen

    Fresh Links

    Featured
    Wes Anderson on Fox
    Wes Anderson on Fox External Link

    The director talks about puppetry perfection and his film, Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Animated Oscar?
    Animated Oscar? External Link

    Hollywood.com ponders whether or not an animated film could win Best Picture.

    TIME's Holiday Movie Preview
    TIME's Holiday Movie Preview External Link

    Richard Corliss previews the season's best offerings and hottest tickets.

    Scenic Routes
    Scenic Routes External Link

    The AV Club's Mike D'Angelo airs his beefs with Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.

    Promos
    Follow RT on Twitter
    Follow RT on Twitter External Link

    Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!

     
     
    About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
    IGN Logo

    IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
    TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
    AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


    By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
    Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
    IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
    Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.