Little Man (2006)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 79
Another gimmicky comedy from the Wayans brothers, Little Man comes with the requisite raunchiness, but forgot to bring the laughs.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 20
Another gimmicky comedy from the Wayans brothers, Little Man comes with the requisite raunchiness, but forgot to bring the laughs.
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Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy -- who happens to have a criminal record -- in this comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) is a master criminal who with the help of his friend and sidekick, Percy (Tracy Morgan), plans a daring robbery of a museum where one of the world's largest diamonds is on display. One of reasons Calvin is able to get inside secure areas is his size -- Calvin is dwarf who stands less than two feet tall, and can slip in unnoticed
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Cast
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Marlon Wayans
Calvin Sims -
Shawn Wayans
Darryl Edwards -
Kerry Washington
Vanessa Edwards -
John Witherspoon
Pops -
Tracy Morgan
Percy -
Lochlyn Munro
Greg -
Chazz Palminteri
Walken -
Gabe Pimental
Calvin Body -
Molly Shannon
Soccer Mom -
Linden Porco
Calvin Body -
David Alan Grier
David -
Dave Sheridan
Rosco -
Fred Stoller
Richard -
Brittany Daniel
Brittany -
Alex Borstein
Janet -
Kelly Coffield Park
The Jeweller -
Damien Dante Wayans
Officer Wilson -
Gary Owen
Officer Jankowski -
John De Santis
Bruno -
Chloe Mathews
Chrissy -
Matthew Ast
Tommy -
Reece Leslie Knight
Nicholas -
Malcom Scott
Big Fan -
Christopher Gauthier
Big Fan's Buddy -
Nancy Bell
Older White Lady -
Ken Kramer
Doctor Murphy -
Glenn Ennis
Fontana -
Moneca Delain
Hockey Waitress -
Sabine Raskin
Little Girl -
Sebastian Godbout
Little Boy -
Michael Bardach
Cellmate -
Fraser Attcheson
Muscular Inmate -
Anthony St. John
Scrawny Inmate -
Chris Burns
Guard -
Mark Docherty
News Anchor -
Peter Hanlon
Representative -
Jeff Ballard
Ballplayer -
Kai Kennedy
Park Boy -
Isaiah States
Park Boy -
Stephen Thompson
Park Boy -
Anthony Harrison
Policeman -
Josh Laster
Van Kid -
Samantha Laster
Van Kid -
Brett Irving Coppa
Dinosaurus Rex Kid -
Taylor Weaver
Dinosaurus Rex Kid -
Christopher Burns
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (83) | DVD (13)
It's a concept, not a movie.
Top CriticTedious, snickering jokes about infant breast-feeding and adult-male boob lust? You got 'em, baby.
The Wayanses rely on their usual tired jokes here -- spittakes, white people speaking jive, Marlon grimacing in gastrointestinal distress.
The sizable laughs in Little Man make it better than just about anyone expected.
There's nothing like a well-placed nod to the classics to help elevate a dumb summer comedy.
If seeing a guy get whacked in the privates doesn't make you laugh the first time, maybe it will the fourth, or the 24th time.
It plays like nothing so much as an extended In Living Color stretched to fill 90 minutes, and it feels as thin as it sounds like it should. By the umpteenth variation of mistaking Calvin for a baby the joke has long, long stopped being funny.
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
Crude, rude one-joke failed comedy.
Is it funny and entertaining? Yep. Though you might not want to admit it in the morning.
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.
There's something about a baby tongue-kissing, molesting and mating with unsuspecting women that struck this critic as just a little too gross.
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.
Slathers itself in scatology, crotch-punching, hilarious elder/child abuse, and a brutal ration of unearned sentiment.
Really, it could have been worse--like, say, Shadowboxer's fantasy of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mo'Nique as lovers.
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.
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.
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.
The Wayans filmmaking clan strikes with another idiotic compilation of bodily-function gags and lowbrow obnoxiousness masquerading as hip comedy.
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Saw it again! Very funny movie. The movie is hilarious and with an easy to follow story that even kids can follow even though I wouldn't recommend this movie for kids. Nice cast, the Wayans almost always bring extreme comedy to the table, keep it up!
After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.