Man Up (2015)
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
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Wonderful character development!
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Absolutely Brilliant. I laughed. I cried. I WILL watch this again.
After a laughless first half-an-hour, I came very close to giving up on this one. It was practically identical to the first half-an-hour of every other romcom I've seen, only without the humour. Pegg is a great actor and a funny guy, but his performance was boring me. Likewise, I didn't take an instant shining to Lake Bell's character either.I did stick with it though, and thankfully the second half of the film is a lot more rewarding that the first half. The story picks up, the humour is more prevalent and, despite the very obvious ending, there's a lot more to like in the second half. Ultimately, 'Man Up' ends up somewhere in the middle - average.
I paid money for this one because the critics were bandying about words like "clever, refreshing and exceedingly charming" and "frequently laugh-out-loud funny." I love Simon Pegg and, until now, have never been disappointed in him. The actress was quite talented and if facial gymnastics alone could make a movie, she would have made this one.The problem was the script. Clichéd. Forced. Tedious. And above all, NOT FUNNY. To me, this one was cringe-worthy, not a chuckle-fest. My husband agreed so we bailed early.If it got better later on, it still wasn't worth sitting through until then.
I'm not a rom-com lover by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever. But browsing through prime, I saw Simon Pegg and Lake Bell appear on a cover. So decided to give it a go as Pegg, is usually quite amusing in most things... So I took the decision, 90 minutes I'll never get back or 90 minutes that made me smile - Most definitely the latter. From the beginning I had a feeling it would be not too dissimilar to 500 Days Of Summer, just happier. I couldn't have been more wrong. Smiling and glued to the screen from the get go as everyone can relate to each of the characters in some way. It's exactly as you would expect a rom-com, BBC funded film to be; witty, charming, short, very British, cringeworthy, typically British, with an excellent soundtrack from the beginning - music perfectly fitting everywhere. Some other very good up-and-coming British actors making short appearances here and there, following on from TV performances etc. Definitely made me smile like a fool in love for the last 15 minutes. Will be my future pep talk film as to why I'm so unlucky in love.