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Little Man

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Little Man (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 85

Fresh: 11

Rotten:74

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.

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 brothers rose to fame in the 1990s via the IN LIVING... 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

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Nov 7, 2006

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DVD Features:

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Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, French - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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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
Observer [UK]
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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
BlackFilm.com
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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
Film Freak Central
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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
BBC
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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
Guardian [UK]
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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
Daily Mirror [UK]
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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
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
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It’s a concept, not a movie.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
08/31/06
JM Tyree
Time Out
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Abysmal comedy that's nonsensical, frequently offensive and almost entirely laugh-free.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/31/06
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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If your taste runs to scatology and you find little people inherently funny, Little Man may be the movie for you.

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08/08/06
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
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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
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
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[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
Movie Eye
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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
Austin Chronicle
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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
Entertainment Weekly
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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
Creative Loafing
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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
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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I'm sure it's fun to be a multi-millionaire, but whatever creativity and dignity Ivory Wayans had to offer the world in his youth is lost for good in Little Man to a series of crotch wallops and fart jokes.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
07/19/06
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com
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There's a degree of social comedy in White Chicks' black cops posing as wax mannequin exaggerations of the Hilton sisters. Nothing much is gained when delinquent midgets see what it's like to live as babies.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
07/18/06
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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A fitful, effects-driven and remarkably unambitious summer release about a midget jewel thief masquerading as a baby.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/18/06
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine
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