Man Up Movie Review

Man Up (2015)

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Written by: Tess Morris
Directed by: Ben Palmer
Starring: Lake Bell, Simon Pegg, Ophelia Lovibond 
Rated: R
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Plot
Jack mistakes Nancy for his blind date. It's the wrong date, but it may be the right match.

Verdict
This movie combines and recycles the common rom-com tropes producing nothing original or interesting. There was a brief moment where it broke from reality, and not in the sense that dialog and characters aren't realistic but something actually that might make for a solid ending, but the break was only temporary. If you're expecting funny Simon Pegg, this is not the movie.
Skip it.

Review
The first scene is Lake Bell talking into a mirror. It's not original or funny, it's just depressing how bad this movie is in just a couple of minutes. This movie could have been framed so much better. Why would I want to see a movie with weepy Simon Pegg? I want comedy. Towards the end, he's making a frantic dash to find this girl. He's dropped off at the wrong location by Sean, who had a childhood crush on Nancy, but finds someone at a teenage party for whom Nancy babysitted. It's senseless but it leads to everyone at this teenage party running down the street, following him on this quest. It's ridiculous but at least it was entertaining. It only lasted a few minutes before coming back to the mind numbing drivel that is this movie. The whole movie should have been Pegg trying to find the girl and encountering various situations and characters. That would have been utilized his talents.

Man Up - More like movie down.

Nancy's sister calls her after she has just met Jack. Jack assumes it's a rescue call, answers and tells Nancy's sister everything is okay, and he's not a psycho. How does Nancy's sister write that off?
It took so long for Simon Pegg to appear in the movie, I wondered if he was just a supporting character. I hoped he could this movie bearable. He doesn't.

Every situation is recycled from other movies in the genre. The blind date mix up may be the only unique idea in this, and that's probably from an obscure rom-com I just haven't seen.
The dialog is bad. It tries to bring a couple of things full circle in an attempt to be clever that fail. It's not particularly funny despite my expectations with a Simon Pegg movie.