- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 18, 2011
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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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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.
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The setup could be mildly amusing if it weren't more common than Starbucks.
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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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The problem with this trio isn't that they're unmanly; it's that they're morons.
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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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Allen's show may be a clone of "Home Improvement," but it's somewhat watchable. Man Up just isn't.
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Subtlety is not this show's strong suit. That lack of tonal balance dooms the show.
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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.
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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Nov 5, 2011
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Oct 20, 2011