we recommend
THE PUFFY CHAIR
See Film feature. (Edwards University, Irvine)
also showing
LITTLE MAN
The Wayans brothers' white-faced farce White Chicks was the most pleasurably guilty attraction of the 2004 summer movie season. On paper, this new Wayans caper, about a diminutive jewel thief (Marlon Wayans) masquerading as a newborn baby, sounds like a suitably irreverent follow-up. But the surprise of Little Man is that it turns out to be the last thing you'd expect (or want) from the brothers: a bid for respectability. Well, maybe respectability is too strong a term for a movie with this many dick jokes, hits to the groin, and a parade of the dumbest white people this side of a blaxploitation picture. But there's no question that the Wayanses have dialed down the outrageousness here to nearly sub-PG-13 levels. The sight of the pint-sized thief—created by elaborate computer effects that graft Wayans' face onto the body of a child actor—is indeed a hoot, but having accomplished that feat, the movie (directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans) runs dry of ideas. (Scott Foundas) (Countywide)
THE OH IN OHIO
See Film feature. (Edwards South Coast Village, Santa Ana)
YOU, ME AND DUPRESS
See Film feature. (Countywide)
previews
LADY IN THE WATER
12:01 a.m. Thurs., July 20. (AMC at the Block, Orange)
MONSTER HOUSE
7 p.m. Sat. (Countywide)
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND
12:01 a.m. Thurs., July 20. (AMC at the Block, Orange)
