Man Up (2015)

Man Up (2015) 

Martin, a 19 year old slacker, has his life turned upside down when he gets his Mormon girlfriend pregnant so he moves in with his stoner best friend, Randall, who teaches him to be a man.

Director: Justin Chon
Writers: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, 1 more credit
Stars: Dion Basco, Gerry Bednob, Nichole Bloom, See full cast and crew

Storyline:

Martin, a 19 year old post high school bum is on a year long extended summer vacation when his world gets flipped after learning that his Mormon girlfriend is pregnant. With the help of his offbeat best friend Randall, Martin must turn from his slacker ways and man up or risk losing everything.

Movie Reviews:

Man Up is a decent premise for a movie - basically a slacker takes a year off so he and his girlfriend can be in the same classes in college (though he pretty obviously does not have any plans to ever actually go to college, which infuriates his mother and rest of his family), then she drops the bomb that she is pregnant. He gets kicked out of the house, she dumps him and moves away until the baby is ready to be born, and he has to move in with his best friend Randall and "man up" to try to win her back.

The story isn't awful but the acting of the two leads is pretty bad. At times it feels a bit painful. Also the writing is not very good with some really obvious plot holes and bad jokes, such as "my neighbors have a baby and it is so annoying, it cries like a baby!"

I made myself finish watching it because I almost never bail on a movie before it's finished, but I kind of wish I hadn't. Thought it would get better at some point but it really didn't.