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Little Man
- Review Date: November 6, 2006
- PG-13
- Genre: Comedy
- 2006
Common Sense Media says
Crude, rude one-joke failed comedy.
Parents say
QUALITY
Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this film is filled with sexual allusions pushing the PG-13 envelope (visible tongue-kissing, foreplay under covers, references to penis sizes and sperm counts, bouncing breasts, comments about women's bodies). Characters commit frequent, loud acts of violence (hits, falls, collisions, and kicks), resulting in brief bruising and pain inflicted on small children. A character tricks another into having sex with him. The film includes vulgar bodily-function jokes alongside the sex and violence, including a dog urinating on Cal dressed as a baby in a basket, flatulence in a bathtub, spitting up/spraying breast milk, a thunderous bowel movement, and the "baby" rubbing Pops' bedtime cookie on his crotch and bottom to make it stinky.
What's the story?
Just released from prison and in need of fast cash, a very short thief named Cal (Marlon Wayans) and his dimwitted partner Percy (Tracy Morgan) steal a gigantic diamond from a posh jeweler. A dog gets in the way, the cops show up, and Cal drops the rock into a nearby purse, belonging to Vanessa (Kerry Washington). To recover his loot, Cal pretends to be a baby and so moves in with Vanessa, her husband Darryl (Shawn Wayans), and her father Pops (John Witherspoon). As an "infant," Cal tries to nurse on a visitor's buxom breasts, hits Darryl in the crotch repeatedly, steals Pops bacon and pancakes, and suffers the insertion of a rectal thermometer, but he's also agile enough to play tackle football, drive a car while chased by screeching police cars, and beat up the thugs who come to take the diamond from him. At night Cal sneaks into Vanessa's bed and has sex with her (off camera); the next morning she compliments Darryl for his new energy and creativity.
Is it any good?
Noisy and gleefully stupid, LITTLE MAN is a one-joke movie that doesn't pretend to be anything else. None of it is very funny -- the gags are both predictable and uneven. Aside from the antics, there's a central pseudo-emotional story having to do with Cal's evolving relationship with Darryl, who bond over some similarities. Also submerged beneath the overwrought gags and terrible special effects is an idea: What if babies did have thoughts about their parents' inane conduct? But the movie doesn't do much beyond set up the possibility.
Though director Keenen Ivory Wayans started out making politically edgy spoofs of pop cultural clichés (see: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka or Scary Movie), this film is focused on juvenile poop, sex, and physical abuse jokes. While these are repetitive, the utter lack of imagination regarding the women characters (reduced to types: sex object, careerist, mother) is flat-out irritating.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the film's seeming reinforcement of good father-son relations through a premise that involves deception, selfishness, and adultery. When Darryl and Cal finally bond "as adults," why is it significant that this involves violence and then drinking? They can also talk about the appeal of gross-out comedies and where the line is between silly and offensive.
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NO WAY
This was one of the most uninteresting and absolutely terrible MOVIE. TRUST ME don't waist your time ! ! ! !
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It was okay but prefer to have an adult with the 17 years old
One thing I didnt like - expose to kids is this. The head of the baby switch from a baby head to an adult head. It should be role model to make the kids today think they're not as smart as they are. At that age, no one think like an adult. Not that I have seen one.
Its just somewhat wrong to give the wrong impression to the kids who are 17 - however; 17+ with an adult is ok.
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Kid, 12 years old
November 29, 2008
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LOL!!!
Little man is hilarious,lol,clasic movie!it made me pee my pants in the part when a kids mom told her son to take medicine and told him that it would slide right out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Funny movie, but doesn't deliver
I thought that this movie was a little funny, but not the best movie I saw. Hollywood is running out of ideas. A robber that is only the size of the baby is unheard of.I would know right from the start that it was an adult, not a baby. It took me 2 days to laugh. The plot was okay, but somebody else could've done better.
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| Studio: | Columbia Tristar |
| Director: | Keenen Ivory Wayans |
| Cast: | Kerry Washington, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 90 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | July 14, 2006 |
| DVD release date: | November 7, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | crude and sexual humor throughout, language and brief drug references |
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