Two and a Half Men (2003–2015) User Reviews (543)

Charlie Yes Ashton No

[slavkogligor · 8/10 · 5 January 2022]

The show had a soul when Charlie Sheen was in it, and 8 i have given is because of that.

The episodes when Ashton, internet billionaire mambo-jumbo, came in deserve a pure 5. Mayve even a 4.

Charlie Sheen and a man and a half ;)

[Farzad-Doosti · 7/10 · 21 November 2021]

It was only two and a half men until season eight, after that it was just a simple show, a pity ... The role of Ashton Kutcher was good, but this sudden turn of the story and the events that caused it, I could not follow with the same mentality as before, this show belonged to Charlie Sheen, is and will be.

First 8 seasons are classic while the left are sucked

[whothru · 8/10 · 20 December 2013]

I'm giving 8 stars to the S1-S8. They are so funny to watch even repeatedly. To be honest, without Charlie,I never finish watching even one episode of S9 and I would not watch it any more. This show now is dead to me. I'd rather watch the former 8 seasons again and again. I like Charlie, Rose, little Jake, Berta and Evelyn in the show. At first I think this show is just for fun. But as I watch more, I realize that there are a lot of other things that I like which can make people stop to think. Charlie seems to be womanizing and nonchalant to his mother and brother at first. Yet I see a loving Charlie when Evelyn is vulnerable, when he comes into Jake's room to find the sulking Jake who is hiding in his room just because Charlie threatens Alan to move out. Rose loves Charlie so much and she is a good girl. So funny to see her head popping out from the deck. .... This show, S1-S8, is one of the best sitcoms in my eyes.

There's absolutely no reason to watch this show anymore

[slimshady5623 · 11 April 2012]

Two and a half men doesn't deserve to go on,now that they've fired Charlie sheen and hired Asthon Kutcher as his replacement.This show is nothing without Charlie Sheen he was the main reason to watch this show.I have to admit this show started losing its's potential once Jake started getting older. It seems like every episode had the same plot Charlie sleeping with random women he doesn't care about and Alan whining about his social life,don't get me wrong this show was funny during the time Charlie Sheen was on the show.Ever since Ashton Kutcher came on this show its gotten very vulgar it seems like the writers have an obsession with farting,masturbation,sex,and bathroom jokes.Bottom line this show needs to be canceled.

Oh no.

[degaswilson · 8/10 · 19 October 2020]

I just heard about Conchata Ferrell (Berta).

She was very funny and had the best lines.

Nothing else to say.

I will miss her dearly

💜💜💜😘😘😘😘

For me, it's over...

[evalverdes · 6/10 · 3 January 2013]

Forget about watching the new episodes, with Walden Schmidt. Not only, the actor is not very talented, not funny nor the character is interesting, but also has the huge job of filling Sheen's shoes. Let's be honest, the show is nothing without Charlie Sheen. OK, Jake and Alan are also great characters. But the thing about this show was the issues between the two brothers and their trouble raising a kid. It makes no sense to change the main character. They should have cancelled it. No doubt the Charlie-Alan-Jake seasons are fantastic. But that is it. Forget that someone even tried to make episodes without one of those three. It's better to remember it as good show, as it was.

Classic!

[Rob1331 · 8/10 · 26 January 2023]

Two and a Half Men is one of guilty pleasures. While not the best sitcom ever, it's still good. The show dropped down in quality a little bit when Charlie Sheen left and Ashton Kutcher took over. Charlie Sheen and John Cryer just had such great chemistry that it was going to drop a little in quality regardless who took over. The Sheen years were better than Kutchers but it's still decent with Kutcher. I would've like to see more with Sheen but unfortunately he lost his mind and had to be fired. The supporting actors are all pretty funny in this too. There are too many to name but they all do a good job. There's a reason that reruns are always on and that's because it's such a popular show.

Should end with Charlie

[alirezasho · 6/10 · 28 December 2019]

This show would get a higher rating if it ended with Charlies death, but they had to drag it on with Kutcher. He doesn't have the weight and celebrity status of Charlie Sheen to carry on the show

The show with Charlie Sheen gets a 10, the show with Ashton Kutcher gets a 1

[harten-92837 · 9/10 · 16 November 2022]

The chemistry between Charlie (Sheen), Jon Cryer (Alan) and the young Angus T. Jones (Jake) is magical. Especially when Jake was the age of the elementary school he was fabulous. What a talented young boy! Also all the girlfriends of Charlie and Alan were hilarious.

They feel like a real family. And it looks like they are really having fun with each other. Holland Taylor (Evelyn) and Conchata Ferrell (Berta) also did a great job. Then Ashton Kutcher came in. He spoiled everything with his awful bad acting. The chemistry between everybody vanished immediately. It looked like the cast did not enjoy it anymore. So we stopped seeing the show. Tried though.

Two and a Half Men died when Charlie Harper did.

[doubleb58 · 7/10 · 30 October 2013]

Two and a Half Men was my all-time favorite TV show. I watched every episode when it aired from the series premiere up until Charlie's exit. Now, I see it time to time, and I couldn't be more disappointed with Chuck Lorre and his crew. Nothing against Ashton Kutcher, he's trying his best to be funny, but he and Jon Cryer don't have the amazing chemistry that Sheen and Cryer did. To pile on, Jake (Angus T. Jones) has now left the show, replaced by Charlie's 25-year old lesbian daughter, Jenny (Amber Tamblyn).

I'll admit that I do still watch the show occasionally, not because I enjoy it, but more out of curiosity to see how bad it can really get. In my opinion, if the writers had done it right (assuming that firing Sheen was right, which it absolutely was not), after Charlie's death, they should have bumped Cryer up to lead actor, with Jones beside him, and added a young boy to the cast, carrying the title Two and a Half Men. Now it's Two Men, a Lesbian and a Housekeeper.

The plot is getting more and more far-fetched and unbelievable. That, and the jokes are nothing new. Alan, get out of my Malibu beach house. Bring home a woman and sleep with her. Blah blah blah, what used to be funny is not funny the hundredth time. With or without Charlie Sheen, this show is years past its prime, and needs to be done. Eleven seasons is a good run. Jon Cryer is great, and deserves better than this. Charlie, you were the heart of this show. And it died when Charlie Harper died.

The series has become too long

[gilgongo1980 · 5/10 · 23 October 2019]

With Charlie, the series was really funny. When Ashton replaced him, the actors became increasingly stupid and the gags became shallow and unwitting. The quality has dropped with Charlie's departure.

Ruined

[Tactrix · 8/10 · 21 September 2011]

Where once stood a proud and mighty hilarious comedy with Charlie Sheen now stands a terrible pile of garbage with Ashton Kutcher. If they had simply traded actors and kept the writing it would have been excellent, but does anyone else get the feeling that the writers left with sheen? Or it might be the fact that Charlie knew how to act in TV shows as where kutcher... well come to think of it where was he a good actor because in all the movies I remember him in he's always this really dumb guy who just walks around clueless. Perhaps he figured that would work on shows too, it didn't. Being a slacker in your movie carrier doesn't give you license to be an idiot in a beloved series, but thanks for ruining that for us well done producers you just firebombed a good show. 1/10 since season 9.

Awesome show

[sharathkumarharishi · 7/10 · 15 October 2020]

As long as Charlie Sheen was there it was an awesome show. After he left the show, later seasons felt dud.

The show should have been canceled.

[romet6 · 1/10 · 21 September 2011]

The show was awesome with Sheen. Without him, it's done.

Watching the first episode of the latest season, I would say that they couldn't have done much more to completely destroy the show. They brought in a completely different type of personality, one that I personally have no interest in.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Ashton Kutcher or his acting but he simply doesn't fit in this role. They should have tried to work things out with sheen or they could have just cut their losses and canceled the show.

Would they really expect any of the old fans to keep watching this?

This show is so dead.

[ricardopthomaz · 20 October 2011]

I gave it a chance, I believed in this season, I tried to like it, very hard, despite everything, but I just can't stand anymore. This show is dead! And don't get me wrong, I know that Kutcher have made some decent work in the past, take The Butterfly Effect for example, which I simply love to watch. I love this movie so much that I try to make like there's never been two lame sequels to it. It's just this one movie and that's it.

As about one of my favorite sitcoms of all time, sorry, but as much as Kutcher tries, there's no salvation to it.

I mean, Charlie Sheen is lots of fun, he can be an a**hole as a person, I don't care, but in the series, I used to LMAO with him and the rest of the cast.

Even the worst episode with Sheen is far better than this travesty now that they call Two and a Half Men Season 9.

Five episodes. No laughs, not even giggles. I'm done. The show is pretty dead to me.

As long as they don't bring Charlie back to this, do not even consider calling me to watch this garbage again.

3 stars in memory of what this show used to be once. A funny as hell experience. Now nothing but a travesty of itself.

Two and a Half Men (2003 - 2011) R.I.P.

Great Sitcom

[Supermanfan-13 · 8/10 · 27 April 2023]

I have to say Two and Half Men has really grown on me over the years. It's always on so it's hard to miss but I've come to like it a lot. Like most people have already pointed out it was obviously a lot better with Charlie Sheen but I don't think it was as terrible with Ashton Kutcher as some people say. It was still watchable as long as you try to look at it as its own show and not compare the two. It's just too bad that Sheen went nuts because they could've probably got a few more good seasons with him and Cryer. This is one of those shows you can have on in the background as you're doing other stuff around the house because you've seen all the episodes several times.

THIS SHOW DESERVES TWO RATINGS

[svharma · 7/10 · 1 September 2021]

IMDB should have the option of rating this show in two parts as follows Season 1-8 - Rating 10.

Rating 9-12 - Rating 1.

Charlie Harper was the soul of the show. The last 4 seasons are a torture to watch without him.

Amazing ... but not season 9

[greeg-260-615858 · 10/10 · 8 January 2012]

The show is lovely, I mean all seasons except season 9 when Charlie Harper dies. Seriously, the first episode was just a disaster. Funeral ? Oh come on, Charlie deserved at least few tears (you Mr producer own this your audience !!!) From the bottom of his heart, Charlie was a good person. And then a new character came. A grown man who acts like a child. This is not funny. It's irritating. First 4-5 episodes were a disaster, then it started to be a little better but overall, the show lost all the chemistry which was between Charlie, Alan, Jake, Berta + Charlie & Alan's mother. In addition with Judith and Herb it was an amazing show.

Now it's just Alan trying to save the show, Jake being still fun but he's growing up and that's pretty much it. Walden is just a bad character. It just irritates me - when 30 year old (or whatever) person acts like a child it is not funny at all. And what's the point of him being undressed all the time ? Not funny at all.

Actually, by watching Season 9 I couldn't believe that one person can have such an impact on show. I loved that humor when Charlie wanted Alan to "get out of my house" but we all knew that at the end they loved each other. The show was ... natural. I could actually imagine such weird family. With Walden character I just can't.

If S1-8 were like Champions League, Premiership in football (in US - Soccer) then S9 is something around ... Division :( Bring back Charlie.

The show was best with Charlie Sheen

[zizumia · 6/10 · 10 September 2012]

I personally enjoyed this show a lot, especially when Charlie Sheen was on it. Now with Ashton Kutcher as the star, the show has died for me, and I don't watch it anymore.

In the time before Charlie Sheen's little breakup with the show, I enjoyed the show a lot. The jokes were humorous, the acting was great and I could easily point out the characters character. The usual shows I watch that have child actors, the child usually lacks in acting skills, but Angus T. Jones (Jake) was a great actor from the beginning.

I personally don't recommend this show as of the newest Season with Kutcher, just because the humor is dead and now the show seems like a drag, for Charlie was really the main character that made the whole plot fit together. Yet, I do recommend watching the episodes with Sheen, because I find those humorous.

rating just for 1-8 season

[lucastm-588-342931 · 10/10 · 18 June 2020]

Two and Half Men remake whit Charlie Sheen ? It will definitely be successful once again ;) I love this 1-8 season series.

Not anymore...

[musamir · 6/10 · 27 February 2019]

The show was great and was very fun to watch but the day Charlie Sheen left the show the show became boring. The old non-funny lame jokes and non-funny sexual acts to keep the show alive. They just kept on adding adult-scenes to attract the audience and they were successful in doing that but audience doesn't matter because the show was lame in last 4 seasons. There is no reason to watch last 4 seasons. I stopped watching the series when the 9th season started, truth is charlie sheen was the only man keeping the show together, the day he left, there was no reason left to continue watching the season!

Also excuse the english, am not an American nor British.

charlie come back

[contact-950-192374 · 1/10 · 2 October 2011]

10/10 with charlie 1/10 without him....

its like taking the motor out of a lamborghini and replace it with 2 pedals for the driver. its not a lamborghini anymore. face it.

the whole concept of the show is based on charlies character. it makes absolutely no sense to continue without him. the only reason they do, they want the money so hard, since two and a half men was the most successful TV show. a lot of people say sheen went crazy, i say: charlie was right when he flipped out and offended the producers. it doesn't look like they love what they do, they just love the money. he wants double the money? pay him and get him back, only way to rescue a sinking boat. the show will be cancelled soon, if they continue like this.

My review is only for the first 8 seasons.

[OrangeSequins · 9/10 · 10 April 2023]

This review is only for the first 8 seasons of the series. Because I heard a lot about how bad the last seasons were, I didn't even get to the point of starting watching them.

The writing: Good. Nothing special, but it's good: it has good jokes and the structure of the story is also good.

The acting: Very good from every actor! But in my opinion, mostly Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer bring out their best.

The direction: Let's call it good. But that's just "good" too, nothing special. I think this is as good as a series like this can get.

So in summary: the first 8 seasons are good. They have funny jokes, great acting and good direction.

Great show...... but just the first 8 seasons

[pajsi · 7/10 · 18 September 2013]

In my opinion Two and a half men was one of the best TV show ever. I loved this show, it was very funny with likable characters and interesting storyline. Until the main character Charlie Sheen have been changed for Ashton Kutcher. I think that was a huge mistake. The show should have stopped with season 8. I rated it with 9 stars. Seasons 9 and 10 are quite watchable, but it is no more funny and it started to be awkward sometimes. It's not as good as before. My rating for these two seasons is 5.5. But after all I highly recommend this TV show for everyone who have not decided yet. Especially the first 8 seasons. You'll be satisfied and you're going to laugh a lot.

Another great show that died a shameful death.

[13Funbags · 1/10 · 16 April 2018]

What can I say? This show should have ended when Charlie left but now we have 100 episodes of garbage that will be on tv everyday for the rest of our lives. 10 stars for Charlie, minus 5 for that second idiot.