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Thanks to fine performances from Lake Bell and Simon Pegg, Man Up largely strikes the deceptively difficult balance between romance and comedy.
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Bell and Pegg are utterly defeated by a screenplay that favours plot over characterization to an almost surreal, parodic degree. Nov 20, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Bell and Pegg are utterly defeated by a screenplay that favours plot over characterization to an almost surreal, parodic degree.
Nathan Rabin
Both actors stay sharp through some pretty degrading moments, and if Palmer and screenwriter Tess Morris are bent on serious button-pushing in the closing scenes, at least they garnish it with playfulness and wit. Nov 19, 2015 | Full Review…
Both actors stay sharp through some pretty degrading moments, and if Palmer and screenwriter Tess Morris are bent on serious button-pushing in the closing scenes, at least they garnish it with playfulness and wit.
John DeFore
Man Up has a couple of bits that don't quite work and the ending is just silly, but for the most part, Pegg and Bell carry this thing through sheer force of personality. Nov 19, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Man Up has a couple of bits that don't quite work and the ending is just silly, but for the most part, Pegg and Bell carry this thing through sheer force of personality.
Liz Braun
Aside from the silly title and disappointingly pat ending, even the rom-com-averse will find something to love about Man Up. Nov 19, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Aside from the silly title and disappointingly pat ending, even the rom-com-averse will find something to love about Man Up.
Linda Barnard
Bell and Pegg, both terrific comic actors, mine small gestures and reactions for laughs. But they're at their best when they're talking, and they talk a lot in "Man Up." Nov 19, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Bell and Pegg, both terrific comic actors, mine small gestures and reactions for laughs. But they're at their best when they're talking, and they talk a lot in "Man Up."
Bill Goodykoontz
There are enough twists, turns and strange little bumps in the road to make this well-traveled journey to romantic comedy bliss surprisingly worthwhile. Nov 13, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There are enough twists, turns and strange little bumps in the road to make this well-traveled journey to romantic comedy bliss surprisingly worthwhile.
Christy Lemire
There's nothing new here, but that's okay. Man Up is an unchallenging yet refreshingly nice and funny piece of cinema. May 10, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's nothing new here, but that's okay. Man Up is an unchallenging yet refreshingly nice and funny piece of cinema.
David Brake
For all its superficial flirt with sexual politics, the film's traditionally conservative view of a happily coupled-off society inevitably evokes the atmosphere of Jane Austen novels, minus the self-ironic wit. Apr 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
For all its superficial flirt with sexual politics, the film's traditionally conservative view of a happily coupled-off society inevitably evokes the atmosphere of Jane Austen novels, minus the self-ironic wit.
Christine Jun
A top-notch romantic comedy... Oct 19, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A top-notch romantic comedy...
David Nusair
Man Up is supposedly a rom-com but, it's so formulaic and full of cliches, by the end of the 88 mins you're left thinking Man Down, Man Down! Aug 22, 2018 | Full Review…
Man Up is supposedly a rom-com but, it's so formulaic and full of cliches, by the end of the 88 mins you're left thinking Man Down, Man Down!
Rosalynn Try-Hane
Man Up is so far from selling anything, I began to wonder if it was some kind of audience test or scientific experiment: how many undesirable characters and situations can we get into a single film? Jan 4, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Man Up is so far from selling anything, I began to wonder if it was some kind of audience test or scientific experiment: how many undesirable characters and situations can we get into a single film?
Camilla Long
Man Up is a classic romantic comedy about two people who are too old, too wise, too jaded for classic romantic comedies, and that's precisely why it works. Jun 14, 2017 | Full Review…
Man Up is a classic romantic comedy about two people who are too old, too wise, too jaded for classic romantic comedies, and that's precisely why it works.
Angie Han
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