Console best movie i've ever seen.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

areatw 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.

James Like many other British romantic comedies, Ben Palmer's "Man Up" gets an immediate head start by being able to draw on the vast wealth of UK popular music. Here we have snippets of Paloma Faith, Duran Duran, Whitesnake and Elbow to name but four, and this gives just an inkling of the diversity on offer in Britain, and in this rather-less-lightweight-than-it-seems British comedy offering. And, given that the number of people (aside from myself) who can claim to like all four of these groups/performers must be close to zero, and given that all are nevertheless worked seamlessly and ingeniously into the content of the film, we can see the makers' triumphantly successful interest in reconciling different tastes and overcoming apparent divisions and difficulties that actually represents a hallmark of their film (just as they were hallmarks of "About a Boy", "Love Actually" and many others).Repeatedly, and with increasing intensity as the 86 minutes pass, we are shown how young and old might work together, and how people who ought to be resentful of each other can find some synergistic magic to allow all to come out ahead.This is then the pleasant and surprisingly powerful watching that accompanies a simple enough story of deliberately concealed blind-date identity featuring Simon Pegg as Jack and the intriguing-looking Lake Bell as not-Jessica-but-Nancy. The latter is American, but you would never know it, and she has a quite endearing ability to move from being relatively unattractive to super-attractive from one moment to another. There's never a dull moment on that score, and all the more so given the likable nature of her character.Indeed, Pegg and Bell do surprisingly well together, and one has to concede that the acting is actually of a pretty reasonable standard.This is not an uproariously funny film (and for me that's good, given that it's a reflection of a certain world-weary realism). Indeed - as the clear downside of this, like so many other recent British films, no opportunity is lost to recall and emphasise the key, nay sine qua non, role of alcohol in British social life. This lionisation of a drug that would obviously represent an instant crime were any other substance to be involved is perhaps - sadly - a reflection of real life, but it is also miserable, and all the more since the movie makes no bones about the fact that these people are not getting any true happiness out of the bottle, only "drowning their sorrows" in time-honoured fashion.A further point to criticise, and something that this film shares with "Bridget Jones" and other British stuff, is the entirely fake belief that laughs can be milked by the extremely regular use of four-letter words.Given these very noticeable downsides, it is surprising that the overall impact of "Man UP" is remarkably positive, primarily for the reason mentioned above.As a whole piece, then, this is really a presentation of eccentric, self-conscious, sometimes crude yet well-meaning Brits that is smooth, cool in its uncoolness, likable and sympathetic; and also surprisingly meaningful in its treatment of loneliness, the pressures of modern life, and the yearning for love that represents the great leveller for just about all of us. Ultimately, it is just nice to watch, and well worth watching - and I surprise myself by writing this, given that I had no major expectations at all.

jlayland 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.

Lola A I loved this movie. Emotional break down after a divorce or failed relationship, struggle to move on and be happy again, struggle to fight the idea that you are a loser are all emotions that all of us have gone through or will go through and this movie gives you hope that everything will be fine in the end and that a happy ending is still possible. It also nicely shows that in relationships age, career, smartness; none of those matter if there is not the connection- the click moment. You might be the best looking or the most successful (like working in the city for example) but if you are not right for that person none of those will matter. This is a nice reminder not to compare yourself with others when it comes to relationships ( as s/he left me for this other person so s/he must be better then me). I live in London so seeing the movie shot in places that are quite familiar also made me love the movie even more. Also the chemistry between Simon Pegg and Lake Bell is just amazing, perfect. On another note now, the reason why I did not like the movie is that it suggested that you are a loser if you are in your 30s and 40s and still single. I understand that a lot of people think that and it just a reflection of real life but movies like just fuel that feeling even more. It is from movies like this that people get ideas like that in the first place. But again, good relationships are very important; they make us feel good and feelings are all that matter. But romantic relationships should not define your happiness. I mean Nancy had a very good relationship with her family. Making herself crazy about being single is the reason she is not happy, not because she is single but because she believes she should not be. Another thing I did nit like about the movie is the ending. I just found it too cringy. But its supposed to be a romantic love story so a cringy ending is a must I'd say.