Last Man Standing (2011)
ABC | FOX | Release Date: October 4, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
16

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 7, 2011
Season 1 Review: Allen and Travis, who are both better than you r average comic actor, seem aware that they're trapped in a particular cookie-cutter sitcom hell, forced to laugh their way through stale gags about kids while other new TV comedies explore family life with clever, contemporary touches. [17 Oct 2011, p.39]
33
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: The whole thing feels like a gross miscalculation--a failed attempt to update Allen's familiar persona for an angrier, more desperate time. Read full review
33
NewsdayVerne GayOct 7, 2011
Season 1 Review: Dreadful. Or to use a more manly phrase, aaarrgggh, awful. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: The jokes and plots have been efficiently constructed, but most have no traction; they slide right off you, and the characters themselves seem disconnected from one another. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: We all know Allen can work a punchline. He just shouldn't have to be working these so hard. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 10, 2011
Season 1 Review: It feels both orchestrated and dated, like a show whose time came and went around the same TV era that "Home Improvement" aired in. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryOct 10, 2011
Season 1 Review: Mostly, it's an excuse to watch Allen occupy an Archie Bunker-like role 20 years after he began raking in cash for ABC. Good luck catching lightning in a bottle twice. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's strange that the same network that airs these two stellar comedies [Modern Family & The Middle] would chose to regress and put this dreck on the air. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 7, 2011
Season 1 Review: We're supposed to believe that there's a nice guy lurking underneath that misogynistic, bigoted shell. But just like everything that's for sale at Outdoor Man, I'm not buying it. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Allen tries too hard to be cranky and offensive and misogynistic and yet ultimately--aww--a good guy. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Everything in Mike's life seems contrived to set up ba-ba-boom punch lines. Read full review
20
TimeJames PoniewozikOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's a stale sitcom right out of the early '90s, and like Mike, it seems to believe it can just harangue the world into changing back with it. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's pretty much impossible to care, since we've heard it all before, and it was funnier and fresher the first time around. Read full review
10
SlateTroy PattersonOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Very probably the worst sitcom on network television, Last Man Standing makes Whitney Cummings look like Noël Coward. Read full review
10
Washington PostHank StueverOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's less of a newly conceived comedy and more of a prime-time haunting. Read full review
0
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: With tediously unfunny scripts and a listless cast that looks as if it can barely wait for the director to shout "Cut!" so it can head en masse to the unemployment office, Last Man Standing is some kind of voracious video parasite that sucks out all intellect, sense of purpose or will to live. Read full review
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