Man Up

R

Released Nov 13, 2015

1 hr. 28 min.

Romance

Comedy

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80%

80 Reviews

Tomatometer

69%

10,000+ Ratings

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When a man (Simon Pegg) mistakes her for his blind date, a woman (Lake Bell) decides to play along to see what happens.

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Critics Consensus

Thanks to fine performances from Lake Bell and Simon Pegg, Man Up largely strikes the deceptively difficult balance between romance and comedy.

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Daniel W

6/10 - A goodish comedy that made me chuckle a few times and I would enjoy seeing it again. Meet Jack (Simon Pegg) a 40 year old newly single man whose going through a tough deforce, but is about to go on a blind date with a girl called Jessica (Ophelia Lovibond) right? Wrong, meet Nancy (Lake Bell) a girl who finds out about the blind date and in the spur of the moment decides to pretend to be Jessica and goes on a date with Jack. Overall I really enjoyed this film but I felt like it took a little while to get going, then Jessica and Jack go bowling and that's when I started chuckling. The film also gets better when Nancy bumps into her old highschool friend, Sean (Rory Kinnear), at the bowling alley amd he threatens to tell Jack the who Nancy really is. This then leads to a funny blackmailing scene between Nancy and Sean. But the funniest scene is at the end when Jack finds out Nancy's secret at a bar. But even though this does lead to the funniest bit of the film, it also leads to an argument which makes the film drag on for a bit. Then right at the end of the film, it gets funny again and overall I had a good time with this film.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/13/24

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Wildflower R

An engaging rom com that succeeds in making you care about the characters and root for their (predictably) getting together in the end. It's the getting there that matters. There are a few crass moments (the sleazy "blackmail" restroom encounter is one--it would have been easy for Nancy to tell the high school acquaintance that she hadn't seen in years that she now went by "Jessica"--I had a HS friend who later decided to go by her middle name--and thus avoid the fuss), but I liked the film enough to purchase it. Lake Bell's British accent is amazing.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Dee F

Fine example of the genre. Hits all the right notes with just enough quirk to make it feel fresh. Lovely to see Rory Kinnear being silly.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/15/23

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Floris D

'Man Up' done the job it meant to do. For a film I had never really heard of until watching it tonight, I wasn't expecting much from it at all. But, I in fact enjoyed it more that I expected. I laughed, I cried, and I had a good time. I felt that the film done an excellent job at making me feel empathetic towards the characters, and often it had me feeling the emotions of the leads at the same time. I also found that for a film that's never talked about, it's story line wasn't that basic. It was in fact, quite unique. Though it is nothing breathtaking, and nothing ambitious, but it is quite good. The only complaint I have is the side character Seán. He fit the plot quite well when he appeared in the film the first time, but upon his second appearance, his presence felt quite forced and unrealistic. I also felt towards the end, I started to come off as a bit too creepy.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/28/23

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Roy V

Simon Pegg and Lake Bell are in their element! Their zany characters are surface light, heat, and sound thrown at each other and absorbed. The energy created and released is explosive!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/25/23

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Wayne L

Charming Romantic comedy. Lake Bell is brilliant as Nancy.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Ben Palmer

Director

Simon Pegg

Jack

Lake Bell

Nancy

Ophelia Lovibond

Jessica

Olivia Williams

Hilary

Rory Kinnear

Sean

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Angie Han

Slashfilm

Man Up is a classic romantic comedy about two people who are too old, too wise, too jaded for classic romantic comedies, and that's precisely why it works.

Jun 14, 2017

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Nathan Rabin

Globe and Mail

Bell and Pegg are utterly defeated by a screenplay that favours plot over characterization to an almost surreal, parodic degree.

Rated: 1.5/4

Nov 20, 2015

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John DeFore

Hollywood Reporter

Both actors stay sharp through some pretty degrading moments, and if Palmer and screenwriter Tess Morris are bent on serious button-pushing in the closing scenes, at least they garnish it with playfulness and wit.

Nov 19, 2015

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Nick Levine

NME (New Musical Express)

Entertaining performances from Pegg and the American Bell, who adopts a convincing English accent, help make Man Up a surprise delight.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jun 2, 2021

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David Brake

One Room With A View

There's nothing new here, but that's okay. Man Up is an unchallenging yet refreshingly nice and funny piece of cinema.

Rated: 4/5

May 10, 2019

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Christine Jun

CineVue

For all its superficial flirt with sexual politics, the film's traditionally conservative view of a happily coupled-off society inevitably evokes the atmosphere of Jane Austen novels, minus the self-ironic wit.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 5, 2019

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Synopsis

When a man (Simon Pegg) mistakes her for his blind date, a woman (Lake Bell) decides to play along to see what happens.

Director: Ben Palmer
Executive Producer: Jenny Borgars, Dan Cheesbrough, Matthew Justice, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer, Simon Pegg, Danny Perkins
Screenwriter: Tess Morris
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Big Talk
Rating: R (Sexual References|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 2, 2016

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