- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 18, 2011
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The actors are likable, including the Ty Burrell-y Zickel, but this is familiar bromantic terrain.
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Man Up! has potential, especially if it stops belaboring its premise with Will constantly harping about his masculinity feeling threatened.
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There's a smoldering ember of promise here, mainly in the cast, even if the pilot tended to smother it.
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It's all about their attitudes, and on that front, Man Up! is a downer.
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The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.
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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.
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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.
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The point is, a bunch of good actors are stuck in a sitcom that has limited appeal.
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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.
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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.
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A charmless buddy comedy where three tiresome stooges question their embattled masculinity.
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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."
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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.
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Subtlety is not this show's strong suit. That lack of tonal balance dooms the show.
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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]
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The problem with this trio isn't that they're unmanly; it's that they're morons.
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Allen's show may be a clone of "Home Improvement," but it's somewhat watchable. Man Up just isn't.
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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.
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The setup could be mildly amusing if it weren't more common than Starbucks.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 29
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Mixed: 2 out of 29
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Negative: 10 out of 29
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