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  • Summary: When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally created one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    Sep 14, 2011
    75
    Bate invites a disparate bunch of SULM true-believers to explain their obsession, and many of them point to the same spirit of voyeurism that makes YouTube videos go viral today: that sense of getting an unfiltered look into how other people live.
  2. Reviewed by: David Lewis
    Sep 13, 2011
    75
    Has to rank right up there as one of the oddest films of the year. But odd in a very good way.
  3. Reviewed by: David Fear
    Sep 13, 2011
    60
    For once, trying to expand into a bigger exploration of the zeitgeist actually proves to be a misstep; the movie works best when it simply shuts up and concentrates more on the anatomy of a prank gone pop phenomenal.
  4. Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Sep 12, 2011
    38
    Shut Up Little Man! fails to legitimize its topic as one of any significance.

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