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It's all standard stuff, but outside of the tiresome, heard-it-all-before rants, it's not without its appeal.
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While it returns Allen to a Mr. Fix-it style of parenting and some broad he-man comedy, the show offers fewer grunts and more shrieking female voices.
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[Tim Allen'd] be insufferable and unbelievable (even this doofus would know what Glee is), except Allen has the chops to make a studio audience laugh just through intonation and timing.
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The only differences between Last Man Standing and the old "Home Improvement" are that Allen's name is Mike this time, his job is working for a sporting goods company as opposed to a hardware manufacturer, and his three kids are teenage daughters.
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It still carries a decidedly throwback vibe, and the ongoing bluster about the state of manhood in the world feels, at best, two steps behind the times.
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Very little of it feels fresh or funny. Nor does Allen's character strike me as someone viewers would want to spend a great deal of time with.
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Allen's mere presence may keep it in business for a while. But it already seems as though it belongs on TV Land, where Home Improvement repeats already reside.
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As bad as Last Man Standing is, it would be a trillion times worse without Allen's veteran presence and ability to sell comedy in that set-up/punch-line kind of way.
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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]
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The whole thing feels like a gross miscalculation--a failed attempt to update Allen's familiar persona for an angrier, more desperate time.
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Dreadful. Or to use a more manly phrase, aaarrgggh, awful.
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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.
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We all know Allen can work a punchline. He just shouldn't have to be working these so hard.
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It feels both orchestrated and dated, like a show whose time came and went around the same TV era that "Home Improvement" aired in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Allen tries too hard to be cranky and offensive and misogynistic and yet ultimately--aww--a good guy.
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Everything in Mike's life seems contrived to set up ba-ba-boom punch lines.
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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.
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It's pretty much impossible to care, since we've heard it all before, and it was funnier and fresher the first time around.
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Very probably the worst sitcom on network television, Last Man Standing makes Whitney Cummings look like Noël Coward.
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It's less of a newly conceived comedy and more of a prime-time haunting.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 74 out of 116
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Mixed: 17 out of 116
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Negative: 25 out of 116
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Nov 15, 2011
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Oct 29, 2011Love this show! It reminds me of the sitcoms I grew up with in the 90's!!! Tim Allen is funny as usual!
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Jan 5, 2012