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80It's a big cast where every piece fits, and at least upfront, the writing and jokes are good enough that Anger Management only uses sex gags where they work, not to cover up any lack of other ideas.
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75The laughs can carry the show, so they seriously don't need the canned laughter and traditional TV sitcom sets. It keeps it all too safe. But so far? Not so bad.
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70The accomplishment here is that tight writing and editing, a solid cast with good timing and Mr. Sheen's chops as the ne plus ultra of sitcom performers, make the whole thing feel, if not entirely fresh-then crisp.
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70Anger Management turns out to be a likable, nicely loaded sitcom.
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70[Anger Management is] funny in that way where you might see the joke hanging there and even if it's a little bit obvious, you're happy enough when the actor hits it.
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63Based on two preview episodes, Anger Management is at least more interesting than "Two and a Half Men" (take that, Ashton Kutcher). That's certainly not saying much, though.
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60This is, quite simply, a Frankencom, stitched together from pieces of other comedies. To their credit, Sheen, the talented cast and seasoned writers know how to make it all look slick and polished.
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60Anger Management is really just a slightly more content-dangerous network sitcom.
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58They're [the initial episodes of Anger Management are] somewhat more amusing than expected.
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58Not great comedy, but hopefully the beginning of long overdue recovery process for a talented, troubled actor.
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50Anger Management is a perfectly acceptable, standard-issue sitcom.
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50Anger Management is kind of a mirror image of Sheen: scabrously, outrageously funny at times and monotonously one-note at others.
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50It's sometimes broadly funny and sometimes broadly bad.
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50Anger Management is at heart a simple, old-fashioned sitcom, with raucous recorded laughter and predictable one-liners.
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50If the series was actually a disaster, that might at least be captivating, but as is, Anger Management is just an average sitcom with a few good laugh lines here and there that could star any middle-age actor
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50Anger Management is a so-so sitcom peppered with equal parts funny lines and groaners.
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50It is not a train wreck; it's just a train--chugging along from A to B, carrying the people, delivering the freight.
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50Anger Management is Charlie Sheen doing what Charlie Sheen does-- on-screen. It's not artful, it's not elegant.
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50This is all fairly predictable stuff and makes for a show that you'd watch because of the cast but would never put in the top tier of TV shows or talk about the next day at the office.
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40Now that finished episodes are out there, we can tell you that it's not great.
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40Nothing in Anger Management is all bad, but not much of it is better than half-good.
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40Sheen's obvious, minimally funny new sitcom.
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38For now, it's a mess. [2 Jul 2012, p.37]
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37Sheen and Bruce Helford ("The Drew Carey Show") have conspired here to create a show completely free of ambition to be anything except a showcase for Charlie Sheen.
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37What fans are about to discover is that Goodson is a less amusing character than the one Chuck Lorre created for Sheen at Men, and that Sheen's new show is a pale substitute for his old one at its height, and not much of an improvement on Men at its depth.
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30The dialogue is so weak, the characters so thin, and Sheen's performance so uncommitted that Anger Management sleepwalks across the screen.
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30They [the producers] have failed to uphold their usual high standards, having not mastered the calculus of delivering the boorishness for which Sheen loyalists thirst while simultaneously tinkering with themes of redemption.
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25It wants you to believe that Sheen is playing the most sane, vulnerable man in the world, yet he still comes off like a creep.
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Jun 28, 201220The network has risked its own reputation for cutting-edge, genre-busting shows by churning out a sitcom whose main joke is how derivative, unfunny, and unconvincing it is.
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10With its deafening laugh track and its banal barrage of gamy insult humor, it intrudes on FX's otherwise distinctive comedy lineup like an obnoxious drunk uncle who's not as funny as he thinks he is.
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10Unlike most new series, and certainly unlike every other series on FX, it is totally uninterested in originality.
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0Anger Management is a colossally wasted opportunity for both Sheen and FX.
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0Despite the careful attention to image enhancement possibilities, the core ugliness and toxic narcissism of Anger Management are impossible to ignore.
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0Anger Management isn't going to bring that [good] actor out though, and it isn't even trying to, as it's just another cynical cash-in that lamely tries to milk laughs from casual, unquestioned dehumanization.