Keenen Ivory Wayans is best known for ‘Scary Movie’ and the American comedy sketch show ‘In Living Color’, which launched the careers of Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx. Brothers Marlon and Shawn executed the Wayans comedic line – the publicity allowing for regarding ‘Little Man’ calls them ‘the most successful African-American filmmakers in cinema history’ (Spike Lee and John Singleton, take note).
‘Little Man’, like Wayans’ previous dusting, ‘White Chicks’, fails as authentication-your-brain-at-the-door divertissement, and due to the fact that the anyway mind: it’s a concept, not a movie. The concept is that Marlon Wayans’ confront looks really funny shrunk down and digitally unavailable to the thickness of child actor Linden Porco. Together, they’re Calvin Simms, a midget tough on the lam who, disguised as a toddler, hides himself and his loot in the household of newly-engaged Darryl (Shawn Wayans) and Vanessa (Kerry Washington). They end him in. Sooner little ‘pumpkin butt’ gets unmasked, but not before likeable himself to the couple by making demode with their busty white friend, sexually harassing a busty beer-girl at a hockey game, and watching the four have sex.
It’s matured slapstick comedy for children, apparently. Keenen Ivory Wayans loved the nine-year-precious Porco because ‘Linden got every one-liner.’ I couldn’t shake the image of Porco wandering around without a head. Marlon Wayans achieves an occasional laugh using only his face, helped by a series of really pretty baby hats. He did his scenes within the solitary confinement of a green colander stage – sad, no? JM Tyree