Nancy (34) is a rather unseemly looking woman who is fed up with her four years of being single. She tries to break out of this cicyle by accepting a blind date at an engagement party, but it leads nowhere. Later, at a train station, she picks up a book a certain Jessica left behind, and is approached by Jack (40), who thinks Nancy is Jessica, his blind date. Nancy accepts and keeps up the lie since she likes Jack and enjoys their date. However, when he finds out, they argue and he goes on to meet the real Jessica on a date. Realizing he has nothing in common with Jessica, he wildly searches for Nancy's address. Jack finds Nancy at her home, where she was celebrating her parents' 40th anniversary, and the two fall in love.
A rather messy, uneven and chaotic, "Man Up" is still an overall sympathetic little rom-com thanks exclusively to the two main performances by Lake Bell and Simon Pegg, who share a certain chemistry even during the film's "low punches". A wacky spoof on the 'blind date' situation, "Man Up" was turned into a comedy of mistaken identity (in one delicious moment, Jack assumes that Nancy (34) is Jessica, a 24-year old girl, and Nancy does not flinch to correct him on the age mistake), but it has too many 'rough edges' and forced moments (the quasi-villain Sean), which make it not that well thought out. As a light piece of entertainment, it is overall fun, and poses some questions about the modern era of singles who are lost, whereas at least one moment is highly amusing, the one where Jack explains his paradox that if a man claims that he does not want to have sex and only wants to take it easy, the woman will then converesly want to have sex with him.
Grade:++
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