Little Man 2006

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The Wayans brothers are funny guys. But this is the kind of premise that should have stayed in cartoon-land. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: A belligerent midget jewel thief assaults groins and molests women in this infantile comedy from the Wayans brothers. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: The slapstick is funnier for the nifty CGI, and the script gets in some sly digs at racist cops and multitasking soccer moms. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Buried under all this is a rather sweet story about families, but it's hard to see it amongst all the tastelessness. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Some verbal jokes simply don't work, and Darryl's persistent I-wanna-be-a-daddy musings are more insipid than inspiring. But some of the physical comedy scores. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: In the search for gags involving inappropriate contact between adults and a supposed child, the film doesn't overlook an orifice or an excretion. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: 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. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Tedious, snickering jokes about infant breast-feeding and adult-male boob lust? You got 'em, baby. Read more

Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press: The sizable laughs in Little Man make it better than just about anyone expected. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: [Little Man] quickly runs dry of ideas. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Every gross baby joke imaginable is wedged into the story -- with mishaps involving diapers, breast milk, castor oil and rectal thermometers. It's supposed to be hilarious because the infant is actually a grown man. Really, it's just creepy. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Well, it was bound to happen: The Wayans brothers have made a movie that's even more two-dimensional than a cartoon. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The effect works better than you might guess, though it's still an ugly, artless movie. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Most of the jokes fall in one of two creepy categories -- slapstick having to do with the baby's superhuman strength or slapstick involving the baby's sex drive. Read more

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Darel Jevens, Chicago Sun-Times: The Wayanses rely on their usual tired jokes here -- spittakes, white people speaking jive, Marlon grimacing in gastrointestinal distress. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: There's nothing like a well-placed nod to the classics to help elevate a dumb summer comedy. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more

JM Tyree, Time Out: It's a concept, not a movie. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: 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. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: 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. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As I said, orifices and their products, and that's about it. Read more