# Little Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471 "2006-07-14T14:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/1 "2006-07-14T14:53:31Z")
Oh dear Lord, just saw the trailer now for Little Man again, I’m wondering how this thing is going to do. I mean everything thing the Wayans Brothers put out turns into (suprsingly) Box office gold. I was strangely amused by White Chix…anyone else gonna check out this out… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/2 "2006-07-14T15:02:42Z")
> [@iluvurmom](#): > > Oh dear Lord, just saw the trailer now for Little Man again, I’m wondering how this thing is going to do. I mean everything thing the Wayans Brothers put out turns into (suprsingly) Box office gold. I was strangely amused by White Chix…anyone else gonna check out this out… Judging by the trailer, this is a movie that should be quietly taken out behind the woodshed and shot. Everyone should deny knowing it ever _existed_. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/3 "2006-07-14T15:17:33Z")
As pointed out (by **Push You Down** et al) in these threads, the concept has already been done by Bugs Bunny. [It’s official: It’s the end times, and humanity is doomed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=377318) [“Little Man,” The New Worst Movie of All Time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378675) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/4 "2006-07-14T15:19:56Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > As pointed out (by **Push You Down** et al) in these threads, the concept has already been done by Bugs Bunny. > > [It’s official: It’s the end times, and humanity is doomed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=377318) > [“Little Man,” The New Worst Movie of All Time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378675) . . . and by Rainier Wolfcastle . . . ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/5 "2006-07-14T15:29:32Z")
I don’t know. I guess I don’t get the hate. It looks at least as funny as any other “hideout in disguise” movie. That’s not to say I have high hopes for it, but at least as high hopes as for “Big Mommas House” or “Blue Streak”. To me, it all depends on whether you think Marlon Wayans is funny. Even if you don’t, I don’t get why this should be the worst movie ever, or that people are actively hoping that it fails. I think the guy shaving while wearing the diaper looks pretty funny, and the dad getting in the tub with him looks funny. A local reviewer suggested they should have just used the short dude from Bad Santa in it. I think that would have been a good choice. Poor taste. But a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/6 "2006-07-14T15:54:45Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > A local reviewer suggested they should have just used the short dude from Bad Santa in it. I think that would have been a good choice. Poor taste. But a good choice. How so; they used a nine-year-old [white dwarf](http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=ac24b6d5-3245-4859-8a37-496cbf007786&k=41764) painted brown for the body as it was. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/7 "2006-07-14T16:08:15Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > How so; they used a nine-year-old [white dwarf](http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=ac24b6d5-3245-4859-8a37-496cbf007786&k=41764) painted brown for the body as it was. How so what? The reviewer suggested they actually use the actor[Tony Cox](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185272/) instead of Marlon’s head digitally stuck on a body. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/8 "2006-07-14T17:04:47Z")
As I said in the thread I started, I can not buy for a second that someone could think this little-person criminal is a toddler. HE HAS TATTOOS! ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/9 "2006-07-14T17:13:34Z")
I liked the idea more when it was Bugs Bunny starring in it. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/10 "2006-07-14T17:43:06Z")
I like the phrase used [here](http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9647) regarding the parents’ intelligence: “cataclysmically stupid”. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/11 "2006-07-14T17:45:18Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I don’t know. I guess I don’t get the hate. > > It looks at least as funny as any other “hideout in disguise” movie. \ What more reason do you need? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/12 "2006-07-14T17:53:52Z")
Did anyone catch the ad for this movie they were running on Adult Swim? I really, really hate, nay, despise, the commercial spots during AS which sort of pretend to be AS bumps. And the one for Little Man was just about the best example illustrating why I hate it. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man/364471/13 "2006-07-14T20:17:49Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > How so what? > > The reviewer suggested they actually use the actor[Tony Cox](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185272/) instead of Marlon’s head digitally stuck on a body. I guess I wasn’t clear on how that would be in poor taste, and that maybe what they did was in worse taste??