Little Man
Little Man
PG-13 | 31 August 2006 (USA)
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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.

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FlashCallahan

A vertically challenged criminal named Calvin has just stole a precious diamond from a jewellery store along with his dim-witted partner, Percy. The snatch goes awry, and Calvin ends up ditching the diamond by stashing it in a woman named Vanessa's purse. Vanessa Is married to wannabe-dad named Darryl. Calvin must now pose as a young infant in order to retrieve the stolen diamond. However, a simple quick-and-grab turns into a relationship between Calvin and Darryl which offers life lessons like a hammer to the head.The Wayans family output is as hit and miss as you could imagine. There are a few gems in there, but you have to trudge through a load of pap to get to the goodies. I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!, was a tidy homage to the blaxploitation sub-genre, offering plenty of laughs, but referencing its subject with respect. Mo' Money isn't everyone's favourite film, but it's fresh and funny enough to catch it when it's ever on TV. After A Low Down Dirty Shame, their output became more and more smutty, and the scripts relied on bodily fluid gags rather than actual intellectual humour.This is where this film lies.Littleman is another high concept idea that is executed poorly, and once the titular character is transformed into a toddler, the film resorts to racial, toilet, orifice, and competitive dad jokes, and it becomes lethargic very quickly.It's not funny, it verges on offensive, and the racial undertones just don't sit right in what should have been a family film. And there is one bedroom scene that is judged so badly, it ruins the rest of the film.When a Rob Schneider cameo is the best thing about a film, times are a changing for the writers.Scary Movie had a lot to answer for comedies in the noughties, arguable one of the poorest decades for American comedy.At least John Witherspoon is good. Oh, and a Chazz Palminteri plays a mobster for the umpteenth time, in a worthless role.

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Steve Anakin Eggleston

As a viewer, suspension of disbelief is critical in the success of any cinematic experience - this movie fails in that regard. No suspension, no disbelief: just awful, unbelievable crap that fails not only as a comedy but also as any form of escapism. If you wish to escape from life for a couple of hours, watching this movie will not get you there.The visual effects of transposing the adult actor into the form of the 'baby' is poor. Believing that the foster parents accept the 'baby' as a baby is beyond belief... As other have commented, the crotch related 'humour' is tiresome and infantile. It was not funny or humorous: it was simply poorly scripted and shallow. You will not see any awards or nominations for this movie, plot, actors or otherwise. It is immediately forgettable (except it is so bad) and that is the way it should remain.Somehow this movie made it on to Saturday night prime-time TV where I live: a sad indictment indeed of Peth, Western Australia's free-to-air TV programming efforts. Yes, 7 Mate, you wasted an opportunity to increase viewer numbers for your advertisers.

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chrisp_0001

Well I loved it! There are so many side splitting scenes! The 'baby' feeding scene! The thermometer! The nappy changing! The football game! Breast feeding! Barney the Baer! The ice hockey fight was a bit disturbing though! But I laughed until my sides hurt! White people don't like it cos there's no white actors? Jesus! Get a life why don't you! If you don't laugh with this film, then you urgently need a sense of humour transplant -urgently!There are far worse films than this!Step Brothers, was Soooooo dull, I wanted to leave the cinema!

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Allen Williams

I think I've had just about enough of The Wayans Family. I really don't understand how this particular acting family keeps making money at the box-office. It just doesn't make any sense.The only reason I gave this movie a shot is because of the fact that Brittany Daniel was in it. In fact, she is why I was even able to finish watching the film.The scene that upset me enough to write this review had to do with the title character crawling into bed with the wife of Darryl played by Shawn Wayans.The wife is looking overwhelmingly satisfied in the morning which confuses Darryl because she is convinced that they had sex more then once, which they didn't.Oh hey, the little man is in the bed, which means what? That the wife had been raped and didn't realize it? Why is that supposed to be funny? I have never felt so sick to the stomach in my life...And to make matters worse...This very scene was used in the movie trailer and the film still made money at the box office...What's wrong with this picture..??It doesn't matter if she enjoyed herself or not, rape is rape, and there's nothing funny about it. This movie made me sick, and that's all there is too it.... ....

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