Little Man: Critic Reviews

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

A belligerent midget jewel thief assaults groins and molests women in this infantile comedy from the Wayans brothers.

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.

Give the Wayans brothers some credit. For a movie that could have fallen flat on its infantile face, Man scores some points for thinking big.

As I said, orifices and their products, and that's about it.

Everybody looks like they're having fun in Little Man, another inane outing from the Wayans brothers. And with some ineptly made comedies, that's good enough.

Well, it was bound to happen: The Wayans brothers have made a movie that's even more two-dimensional than a cartoon.

The Wayanses rely on their usual tired jokes here -- spittakes, white people speaking jive, Marlon grimacing in gastrointestinal distress.

The Wayans brothers are funny guys. But this is the kind of premise that should have stayed in cartoon-land.

The slapstick is funnier for the nifty CGI, and the script gets in some sly digs at racist cops and multitasking soccer moms.

At least in spurts, Little Man provides some big laughs.

Viewers who seek out this film will get just what they deserve and exactly what they want. Crass as it is, Little Man will have a special place in the right sort of heart.

Little Man is a comedy based on a single gag that's not very funny. Therefore, it's exactly one joke short of being a one-joke film.

The brothers' work on the Scary Movie franchise notwithstanding, Little Man may just be their scariest movie yet, with credit going entirely to its mesmerizingly freaky title character.

Shawn's Darryl comes off as terminally stupid, enduring many blows to the groin (there's even a montage of them) while lavishing affection on his dubious 'son.'

The effect works better than you might guess, though it's still an ugly, artless movie.

Unless you're of the temperament that derives boundless pleasure from the serial assault on the genitals of large people by a cut-and-paste little person, Little Man will likely prove about as bearable as diaper rash.

There's nothing like a well-placed nod to the classics to help elevate a dumb summer comedy.

Although you'll likely hate yourself in the morning for having succumbed to the sophomore silliness of it all, at the time resistance proves ridiculously futile.

All the adults are complete idiots, of course, because no one seems to notice or care about how freakish baby Calvin is - the fact that he has a full set of teeth, for example -- not even the doctor who examines him.

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.

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