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Man Up review: a film that treats female singledom as if it were cancer

<span style="color: #333333;">Too much of the behaviour of the main characters is shitty – and too much of the script is stolen from Bridget Jones or Richard Curtis</span>

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

Man Up

15, Nationwide

Man Up is a British rom-com starring Simon Pegg as Jack and Lake Bell as Nancy. Nancy’s problem, at the outset, is that she is 34 and still single — has yet to ‘man up’ — and is therefore a failure, and if you can buy that as a premise for a film, then that’s your look-out.

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