Critic Reviews

The actors are likable, including the Ty Burrell-y Zickel, but this is familiar bromantic terrain.

Man Up! has potential, especially if it stops belaboring its premise with Will constantly harping about his masculinity feeling threatened.

There's a smoldering ember of promise here, mainly in the cast, even if the pilot tended to smother it.

The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.

It's all about their attitudes, and on that front, Man Up! is a downer.

Male characters are incompetent but lovable, and their wives nagging but wise, as if both groups had been snatched straight out of ads for beer and yogurt, respectively.

At this stage, Man Up! (which was actually created by co-star Chris Moynihan) is a show with forgettable characters, jokes that don't land and a shaky grasp at best on its own premise.

The point is, a bunch of good actors are stuck in a sitcom that has limited appeal.

It's presented in such a familiar single-camera manner it would be easy to mistakenly assume "Man Up!" is a rerun of recent sitcoms past.

Subtlety is not this show's strong suit. That lack of tonal balance dooms the show.