Puppy love in all its wondrous and awkward glory is given the romantic-comedy treatment in "Little Manhattan," an Upper West Side story cooked up by the husband-and-wife team of Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. While the juvenile performances are bright and engaging, and there's no shortage of genuinely humorous observations about love and life in the Big Apple, there's an inescapable small-screen dynamic to the scope and rhythm of the production. [...] while it's a technique that worked memorably on television's "The Wonder Years," where Levin was a co-producer, it begins to wear a little thin in a feature format.

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