Underrated rom-com. Charming

| May 9, 2024

Entertaining performances from Pegg and the American Bell, who adopts a convincing English accent, help make Man Up a surprise delight.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2021

There's nothing new here, but that's okay. Man Up is an unchallenging yet refreshingly nice and funny piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2019

A top-notch romantic comedy...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 19, 2018

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

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?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2018

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

Pegg and Bell click, and that's enough to carry the picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2016

So many modern romantic comedies are the equivalent of a date that pukes on your shoes and steals your wallet; at least Man Up wants to be friends.

| Jul 19, 2016

A ruthless rom-com for the Tinder age, Ben Palmer's London-set love match is speedy, amusing and utterly, utterly heartless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2016

Genuinely appealing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2016

For all the rom-com conventions of the film (and there many...), it has a low-key charm and an adult take on expectations, disappointments, and missed opportunities...

| Mar 24, 2016

It's all very gener ic and predictable, but not in an entirely bad way. Man Up has its charms and it'll raise a smile, perhaps even a chuckle or two, if you're looking for a no-frills romcom.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2016

[Man Up] benefits largely from the hilarious dynamic between Pegg and Bell, and the humor alone is strong enough to recommend the film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 5, 2016

[Lake Bell and Simon Pegg] make for an amiable pairing in a hugely enjoyable and fast-paced comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2016

The kind of romantic comedy that reminds you why the genre continues to wheeze and sputter and die.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 22, 2015

Formulaic romcom has lots of sex talk, drinking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2015

Bell and Pegg are utterly defeated by a screenplay that favours plot over characterization to an almost surreal, parodic degree.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 20, 2015

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