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.
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.
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.
The sizable laughs in Little Man make it better than just about anyone expected.
Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
July 14, 2006
There's nothing like a well-placed nod to the classics to help elevate a dumb summer comedy.
Paul Arendt
BBC.com
September 05, 2006
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.
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
