CNS Movie Review: Little Man

Little Man

By David DiCerto
Catholic News Service

NEW YORK (CNS) -- "Little Man" (Columbia) is about as much fun as a bad case of diaper rash.

In this imbecilic comedy from director Keenen Ivory Wayans, brother Marlon Wayans -- shrunk by special effects to toddler size -- plays diminutive jewel thief Calvin Sims, on the run with bumbling partner-in-crime Percy P (Tracy Morgan) after a botched heist. Calvin poses as an abandoned baby and is taken in by a childless couple (Shawn Wayans and Kerry Washington), playing on their kindness to retrieve a stolen diamond which wound up in the wife's handbag during the chaotic getaway. Much unfunniness involving dirty diapers and rectal thermometers ensues.

What could have been a serviceable farce with a sentimental plug for parenthood is instead a one-joke blunder full of infantile slapstick and crass sight gags that play to diminishing returns.

The film contains crude sexual and bathroom humor, an implied bedroom encounter, vulgar gestures, some comic violence and scattered rude expressions. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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DiCerto is on the staff of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

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