Man Up!
ABC | Release Date: October 18, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The actors are likable, including the Ty Burrell-y Zickel, but this is familiar bromantic terrain. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: Man Up! has potential, especially if it stops belaboring its premise with Will constantly harping about his masculinity feeling threatened. Read full review
58
NewsdayVerne GayOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: There's a smoldering ember of promise here, mainly in the cast, even if the pilot tended to smother it. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's all about their attitudes, and on that front, Man Up! is a downer. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: At this stage, Man Up! (which was actually created by co-star Chris Moynihan) is a show with forgettable characters, jokes that don't land and a shaky grasp at best on its own premise. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: Male characters are incompetent but lovable, and their wives nagging but wise, as if both groups had been snatched straight out of ads for beer and yogurt, respectively. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: The point is, a bunch of good actors are stuck in a sitcom that has limited appeal. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's presented in such a familiar single-camera manner it would be easy to mistakenly assume "Man Up!" is a rerun of recent sitcoms past. Read full review
30
TimeJames PoniewozikOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: Man Up!, to its credit, is the better of the three: it's at least scantly funnier than the retro Last Man Standing, and the upcoming cross-dressing comedy, Work It, will make Last Man Standing look like Mamet. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: A charmless buddy comedy where three tiresome stooges question their embattled masculinity. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's just the sheer bone-idle laziness of the writing, which is a dumbed-way-down "Modern Family" crossed with watered-way-down "Two and a Half Men." Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 14, 2011
Season 1 Review: The real deficiency, the one that matters, that's evident in all of them is in the writing of comedy, the capacity to imagine characters--a lack impossible to overcome, and this case is no exception. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 10, 2011
Season 1 Review: Subtlety is not this show's strong suit. That lack of tonal balance dooms the show. Read full review
25
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: The only thing that might make them come to their senses would be a violent but salutary shock. Like Cancellation. [7 Nov 2011, p.45]
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 17, 2011
Season 1 Review: The problem with this trio isn't that they're unmanly; it's that they're morons. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Allen's show may be a clone of "Home Improvement," but it's somewhat watchable. Man Up just isn't. Read full review
25
Washington PostHank StueverSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: There's no zing whatsoever left in leftover Patio Man material like that, but the cast members (including Christopher Moynihan and Dan Folger as Will's unlikable fellow man-children) give it whatever energy they can muster. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: The setup could be mildly amusing if it weren't more common than Starbucks. Read full review
10
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: No show in the history of television has more relentlessly defamed the male gender as ABC's Man Up!, an alleged sitcom that debuts Tuesday and with any luck will be dead and buried, along with its producers, by Wednesday. Read full review
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