Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After leaving prison, dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy in stealing an expensive huge diamond from a jewelry store for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards' house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.
Little Man is a low-brow comedy built on a single high-concept gimmick: a grown dwarf criminal digitally composited onto a baby's body to infiltrate a household. The premise earns some novelty credit for its audacious absurdity, but the execution is thoroughly mediocre. The plot is predictable and paper-thin, relying on repetitive slapstick and crude humor with no meaningful character development. Acting is broad and cartoonish across the board, with the Wayans brothers delivering their trademark exaggerated style to diminishing returns. Cinematography is functional at best — flat, sitcom-level visual storytelling with nothing memorable in framing or lighting. The ending is formulaic and emotionally unearned, wrapping up with sentimental beats the film hasn't justified. A curiosity of its era but largely derivative of better fish-out-of-water comedies.