Movie | Man Up | Liked It

I was really looking forward to this; despite the blockbuster drek that pays his bills, Simon Pegg pumps out some really great movies. And this one promised to be a good date night movie...what could go wrong?

Plenty.

First thing up, the always excellent Lake Bell had a British accent. Whaaaaaat? That's a real change of pace; an American doing an English accent in an English movie. But she's so good that she pulled it off. Phew. We can forgive it. But...the entire first two-thirds of the movie is practically unlikable, in which pretty much all of the characters are horribly irritating. Thank goodness for the final 30 minutes. The movie was saved by that last third. Otherwise, I would have written "Didn't Like It" above. What a huge bummer, it should have been great all the way through, from start to finish.