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lakelady37 2012-05-25 06:15:56

Hilarious and Touching

I saw this on demand.I rented it twice as I couldn't get enough of this movie.It is so funnyand endearing.Patrick Wilson plays a wonderfulBarry Munday.This movie will make a great datemovie,as it will appeal to both sexes.It's great.

TxMike 2012-05-24 18:17:05

Can you keep your manhood after you lose the family jewels?

I sought out this movie for one reason, it has Marc Tubert in a briefrole as a maternity doctor. I met Marc last month as we walked thefairways of the Texas A&M golf course, watching his daughter and otherUniversity of Arkansas golfers contend for the NCAA championships.After meeting him there, it was fun to see him in a movie role! I like Patrick Wilson, he is a very talented singer and an actor ableto tackle a variety of roles. Here he is simpleton and slacker BarryMunday, seemingly spending all of his waking energy minimizing theamount of work he actually does, while chasing "tail" at everyopportunity. One fateful day he meets a randy young lady, well actuallya teenage girl, and they end up in the movie theater together. When thegirl's father shows up, with a trumpet in his hand, and assaults Barryto protect his daughter.Barry wakes up in the clinic, not certain at all what happened to him.He soon is told that he lost his testicles, both of them were damagedduring the attack and could not be saved.Barry is coping as well as he can in succeeding days, when he gets wordthat Judy Greer as Ginger Farley is pregnant, and Barry is the father.He asks "how sure are you that I am the father?" She is sure, she was avirgin before she met him, and he is the only one she had been with.Wilson and Greer are remarkably good in this different kind of romanticcomedy. This premise could have gone into the slapstick gutter veryquickly, but it didn't because of an intelligent script. For the firsttime in his adult life Barry had something to care about, and for thefirst time in her adult life Ginger found someone who seemed togenuinely care about her.We enjoyed it.SPOILERS: Barry and Ginger grow on each other, he is there forchildbirth, it appears that they are becoming a close-knit family astheir child begins to grow up.

napierslogs 2012-05-15 12:49:42

A possibly funny premise ruined by inconsistencies, boring comedy, and rude characters

Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson) is a ladies man. At first the movie istrying to tell us that he just thinks of himself as one, but they didshow us him getting his way with a lot of women. I guess I'm supposedto think that since it's just a comedy, there's no point to beingconsistent.Barry wakes up in the hospital and discovers he's missing histesticles. That's an original set-up for what could be a fairly funnycomedy, but 10 minutes in and that premise is mostly forgotten. We thenget a boring comedy about Barry trying to get to know the mother of hisunborn child. The two stories are only related by the fact that if heever wants to be a father, now is his last chance.There are some fairly funny lines, but the situations are not cleverand the characters are not endearing. There is nothing to connect us toBarry and the rest are just rude, unrealistic characters. Notice how Inever called the far-fetched premise unrealistic but I called thecharacters unrealistic? Yeah, that's how bad they are. We were alsotold the impregnation occurred on February 11th and the expected duedate is December 10th. Really, a 10-month gestation period? I actuallythink that they just didn't want me to do the math. Well, I'll make iteasy, don't watch "Barry Munday".Follow my blog Napierslogs' Movie Expositions athttp://napierslogs.blogspot.com

michael c 2012-05-15 01:49:05

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This was the stupidest movie i have ever seen! it was so stupid and cheesy!NEVER SEE THIS MOVIE!! EVER!! There was absulutly no point to this movie! DONT SEE IT!! TRUST ME!!!

2012-05-11 20:12:01

Tears of Joy

My movie rental is long so I don't know or remember why I choose this movie for my list. It has a rather boring promo. I fell in love with it about 10 minutes in. It is a wonderful surprise, I loved it. Everything in it is there for a reason, loving mother, bad ass family turns into a family bond. I don't know how a writer comes up with all these "just right" emotions. I haven't teared up this much during a movie since "Saving Private Ryan", but for very different reasons. If you want to feel good after 1.5 hours of viewing, let me give you my highest recommendation right here. It is emotionally deep if you know where to look.

collipal-1 2012-05-11 14:12:25

A quite boring romantic comedy

With the film The Accidental Husband, I thought I had found the worstpossible premise for a romantic comedy (a hacker legally marries twopeople who hate each other); then, I saw The Switch in order to provethat it was possible to fall even lower (a man exchanges his spermwith...ah, forget about it). And more recently, I watched the filmBarry Munday in order to remind us that there is simply no limit forthe presence of bad ideas in Hollywood. Needless to say, I found BarryMunday very boring and a waste of time.There was only one reason why I decided to watch Barry Munday: thegreat Judy Greer. I have been a fan of this actress' for a long time(since I saw her in the film Jawbreaker), and I have been waiting foryears to see her huge talent recognized. Unfortunately, she seemstypecast in supporting roles of "best friend" or "talkative secretary",even though she still manages to bring solid works in those minorroles. Her performance in Barry Munday is also competent, and it iswhat saves this film from reaching deplorable levels.For the rest, Barry Munday is a weak, tedious and unfunny romanticcomedy, and I cannot recommend it, despite Greer's performance.

non-shill 2012-05-05 22:33:26

Horrible waste of time

I'm not sure what genre this movie was supposed to fall under. Comedy?It isn't funny. Drama? Get serious.What we have is a guy who loses his testicles under ridiculouscircumstances, and seems OK with it from the start. Me, I'd be prettyupset, but hey, maybe I'm just nutty. Apparently, this is supposed tobe hilarious--a guy losing his balls--because... Well, specificallybecause it's a guy.Roughly 90% of the movie is spent with almost everyone treating themain character like total garbage, including general nastiness andincessant name-calling. Why this happens, I've no idea. Was it supposedto be funny? It's not. Why is Ginger so incredibly hostile? The twomain characters had consensual sex, and she is every bit to blame forthe situation as he is. She informs him that she's pregnant, and ratherthan blow her off, he steps up to the plate and tries being nothingshort of an excellent man and father. Yet this is met with nothing buthostility.Oh yes, she tells her family that he raped her. Comedy gold! And ofcourse, he forgoes the paternity test. Uh... WHY would he do this?Because someone he doesn't even know claims she was a virgin beforethey had a one-night stand? Sure. Very realistic.Not funny, not entertaining, and constantly annoying. There is noreason to watch this movie.

tieman64 2012-05-05 06:43:42

Family Jewels

Patrick Wilson, who has made a name for himself starring in films inwhich he is literally or symbolically castrated and/or left impotent("Hard Candy", "Little Children", "Lakeview Terrace", "Watchmen"),stars in "Barry Munday", a film in which he finally fully loses hisgonads.Wilson plays Barry Munday, a serial womaniser who unfortunately suffersa vicious attack in which his manhood is mauled. The rest of the filmfinds him struggling to woo a dorky woman whom he impregnated beforehis crotch luggage went AWOL. She hates him because she rightfullyviews Barry as a lazy, filthy oaf. He loves her because, nowemasculated, she's the only woman who can bear him a child. It's a goodidea for a comedy, but director Chris D'Arienzo struggles with hisjokes, and the film's quirkiness is strained, forced and second-hand.The film suggests that the only thing keeping men from domestication(and monogamy) is the phallus. Remove the penis and the philandererdies, shifting from a conqueror to a feminized male desperate for anywoman he can get. In the real world, all labour is itself becomingfeminized. Some gender theorists deem this as being beneficial, as itprevents the resuscitation of stable gender orders. Others insist that"masculinity" isn't dying; today it simply "violates" you with perfumeon, or even worse, via the invisible currents of binary transactions.The film goes into dark, interesting territory during its second half,but D'Arienzo's script isn't smart enough to do anything with thematerial. It's "Knocked Up" for the indie crowd.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.

Saad Khan 2012-05-05 05:06:52

well it's an Awful Awful and Awful movie. Who knew Patrick Wilson can do a movie like that!

BARRY MUNDAY – TRASH IT ( F ) Barry Munday, well it's an Awful Awfuland Awful movie. I wasted my time on this movie because I thought ithas Patrick Wilson and he doesn't seem like a guy who does terriblemovies but I was wrong. The movie and premises looked funny in thepromos "a guy who lost his tactical/balls and then he gets the newsthat his one night stand is making him a father so, now he tries tofulfill his fatherly duties". The story looks fresh on paper but it'sterrible on screen; I had to forward almost the entire movie. PatrickWilson was over the top & weird. Judy Greer was incredibly annoying anddreadful. I think it's the entire director's fault that made hercharacter as annoying as he could have made. Maybe he was thinking itscomedy and it works but lets be honest it DOES NOT!!

jotix100 2012-05-04 11:58:13

The batter on deck, Barry Munday, has one strike, no balls

Barry Munday cannot pass an opportunity in which to have sex with anywomen that strike his fancy. Barry is an insurance salesman whose workis a sort of an afterthought. He and Donald, his partying friend, arealways chasing women they can have an easy time with. Most of the timehe scores, so when he spots a shapely young woman going into amultiplex movie complex, he decides to follow her. She wants to sit ona specific location. As Barry starts getting frisky with the woman, aman coming out of nowhere holding a trumpet, attacks him viciously.Next thing we see is Barry Mundy in a hospital room. He wakes up toterrible news, because of the attack, he has lost his testicles!As if that was not enough, Barry Munday gets hit with another setback:a paternity suit from Ginger, a woman claiming they engaged inunprotected sex, and now she finds herself pregnant. Barry comes from abackground where his own father abandoned his mother and himself, at anearly age. As much as he tries, Barry cannot, however much he tries, torecollect his time in the sack with Ginger. So Barry goes along, albeitreluctantly trying to make good about something he does not evenremembering doing.The months preceding the baby's birth are not happy for Barry. To makematters worse, Ginger is the antithesis of the woman he went after. Ontop of that, she makes it clear, all she wants is a father for herbaby, nothing more. With his new handicap, Barry has to face a futurethat is not too bright, but with the help of his single-mother heconfronts the situation head on. Ginger, on the other hand, gives nohint as to how they met since Barry does not remember their timetogether.An interesting premise by Chris D'Arienzo, who is making his screendebut. He also contributed to the screenplay which is based on a novelby Frank Turner Hollon, which we never read. The material is fresh,although the director makes Ginger to be someone hard to love byanyone. The idea of a man castrated because he messes with someoneelse's lover is not exactly new, but as written, one feels for whatlife had dealt Barry, despite his womanizing and wild days. The comedyinvolves the families of Barry and Ginger who can do crazy things whenthey are together. Then, there is also the question of the Asianneighbor who might, or might not have been involved with the plainGinger, something that is not explored by Barry.Patrick Wilson is a fine actor who gets better with each newappearance. His life as a Lothario dominates the first portion of themovie. Barry had a way with the ladies. Judy Greer has been kept busylately. She deserves all the work she gets for she is an actress thateven in the tacky outfits she is made to wear, always delivers. Theonly thing that does not work is the character of Jennifer, Ginger'ssister, who does not seem real, and as played by Chloe Sevigny, she isan obnoxious presence in the film. Jean Marsh is wonderful as Barry'smother. Others in supporting roles include Malcom McDowell, CybillShepherd, and the suave Billy Dee Williams playing Barry's boss.

screamingfoot 2012-05-03 07:44:54

A perfect film

Yes, I said it. Perfect. No, it's not a Hollywood blockbuster and it'snot populated with A-list actors, but it's pitch perfect and has thebest possible balance of cast and story brought to life with a subtlehand.Judy Greer is a joy to watch on screen and I looked forward to everymoment of her in this film.If you don't need action and fireworks and gun-play and are a fan ofgreat writing, acting, and great filmmaking, this is for you. I hope itmakes it into a theater near me because I'm definitely seeing it andwill be dragging some friends with me because I know they'll appreciateit.

2012-05-02 20:03:48

clever and sweet film

This review is from: Barry Munday (DVD) an off the radar moviethat had no money in the budget for publicitybut great castall in it to do their best and create a poignant storyworth seeing

2012-04-26 13:27:14

Apparently, Juno hunted him down and finished what she started in Hard Candy

I missed the first 18 minutes of the film when I first watched it so I didn't know what an idiot Barry Munday was BEFORE the big change. After watching the beginning, I recommend missing the first 18 minutes so that what you see is a sweet funny snide film. Barry before meeting Dad with a Trumpet is such a sleazebag jerk.I find this movie entertaining and Judy Greer is pretty as always and really funny as always with lots of funny rude things to say to Barry Maunday. I hate suburbia so I am thrilled that the character actors are styled so horribly because THAT is what suburbia and being bored out of your mind will do to you including a horrifying Devon Aoki false alarm. But at the end of the movie, you may well wonder if there is such a thing as macabre guardian angels looking out for ... Judy Greer's character. Heee.The way these two interact, it's almost as if God FORCED them together.And apparently, Chloe Sevigny got some skills from Doctor Who.

2012-04-26 09:25:46

Good Indy Watch

Patric Wilson does a fine job as Barry Munday who works in an insurance office and whose life revolves around the sexual conquest of women. His conquests lead to his losing his testicles in an attack by an angry father. Shortly thereafter he finds out that, just prior to the testicle incident, he fathered a child with a woman he doesn't even remember. He now wants to step up and do the right thing, and it changes his life and the lives of others around him.This is a good-hearted Indy flick. Some have mentioned that it's a chick flick and I don't know that I agree. More time is spent with Barry than any of the female characters and it's mostly his transformation we witness. Though it is nice to see Judy Greer's Ginger come around, it's something that happens only in the final stage of the movie.This is an Indy movie with a somewhat limited budget but it seems most of the money went into the cast. Jean Smart, Chloe Sevigny, Cybill Shepherd, Shea Whigham, Malcolm McDowell and others help move this puppy along. I wish they'd used a few of those dollars to punch up a couple of the sets but that's a minor quibble. I would put this in the same zip code as, say, "Juno" or "Little Miss Sunshine" but it really isn't quite as good. Where this lacks is in the characterizations. Though the Barry and Ginger characters are written very well, there is a significant drop off after that. Cybill Shepherd and Malcolm MacDowell have surprisingly little to do. Even the Chloe Sevigny character is a bit of a mystery. What is it she's supposed to be doing here other than supplying a counterpart to to her nerdy sister? She adds little to the proceedings. That aside, this is still a decent watch. At a crisp 95 minutes you probably won't be checking your watch. It's a decent story supported by a few very good performances. If you're looking for something off the beaten path, this is a good bet.

napierslogs 2012-04-25 19:01:12

A possibly funny premise ruined by inconsistencies, boring comedy, and rude characters

Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson) is a ladies man. At first the movie istrying to tell us that he just thinks of himself as one, but they didshow us him getting his way with a lot of women. I guess I'm supposedto think that since it's just a comedy, there's no point to beingconsistent.Barry wakes up in the hospital and discovers he's missing histesticles. That's an original set-up for what could be a fairly funnycomedy, but 10 minutes in and that premise is mostly forgotten. We thenget a boring comedy about Barry trying to get to know the mother of hisunborn child. The two stories are only related by the fact that if heever wants to be a father, now is his last chance.There are some fairly funny lines, but the situations are not cleverand the characters are not endearing. There is nothing to connect us toBarry and the rest are just rude, unrealistic characters. Notice how Inever called the far-fetched premise unrealistic but I called thecharacters unrealistic? Yeah, that's how bad they are. We were alsotold the impregnation occurred on February 11th and the expected duedate is December 10th. Really, a 10-month gestation period? I actuallythink that they just didn't want me to do the math. Well, I'll make iteasy, don't watch "Barry Munday".

2012-04-25 01:34:00

Only Sporadically Engaging

This review is from: Barry Munday [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray) Given the project's prosaic (and that's being generous) script, I cannot imagine how such a talented cast was assembled. "Barry Munday" is a sadly lifeless affair; and that is a shame.

2012-04-20 05:37:32

Romantic Comedy - Great Acting but Light on Laughs

Barry Munday stands out from most straight to DVD movies in that it has a terrific cast. Just keep in mind that it's a chick flick, don't expect plenty of laugh out loud moments like most comedies.What's great about the film is that it has a cast of veteran actors. Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Hard Candy) stars as Barry Munday, an aging womanizer whose testicles are removed after an injury. Judy Greer does a terrific job as Ginger, the pregnant who claims that Barry is the father. I've enjoyed her work before, but she makes for some great reaction shots in this film.Wilson and Greer are supplemented by a solid cast of veteran actors. British actor Malcolm McDowell, Chloe Sevigny, Cybill Shepherd, Shea Whigham, Missi Pyle, and even Billy Dee Williams. For this being Chris D'Arienzo's first gig as a director, he did a great job shooting the film.My only real complaint was that the film wasn't as funny as I had expected. There are only two or three laugh out loud moments, otherwise the humor is extremely light throughout the film. It's also not written as well as other chick flicks that I've enjoyed such as What Women Want, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or Sweet Home Alabama.I watched the movie a second time with an interesting commentary by the director, Patrick Wilson, and Judy Greer. Turns out one of the funnier scenes in the movie (Barry's support group) involves Wilson's real friends improvising their lines. Other extras include some light outtakes, bloopers, and a fake PSA for men like Barry.Barry Munday is worth renting for the great performances by Judy Greer and Jean Smart. Just know in advance that it's a light romantic comedy, so don't expect The Hangover or I Love You Man. Give this one a rent before you decide to buy the DVD.

2012-04-19 23:39:09

Funny movie and great characters

This is a very funny movie with a unique story. If you enjoy a movie that is not just the same old formula, you will really like this one.The movie is based on a hilarious book titled "Life is Strange Place" by Frank Turner Hollon.Check out the cast of this movie. You will see some great actors and be pleasantly surprised by some of the folks in the movie. Enjoy.

Christopher Roussell 2012-04-19 12:25:52

good

it was good,a lot of funny parts no it was really funny like hell and good like hell i hope youlike my reveiw and i hope you see the movie

Sheryl Behr 2012-04-18 23:36:58

Shouldn't be a comedy

While we enjoyed this movie, it shouldn't be a comedy. We were disappointed that it wasn't all that funny. There are a few funny parts though.