barry munday
barry munday is strange and offbeat, and even a little honest and heartfelt .
barry munday: i don' t think it' s fair to use my biological disadvantages against me .
billy osmond, watched barry munday, posted on tuesday, moped on wednesday, took ill on thursday, grew worse on friday, died on saturday, buried on sunday, that was his end, because of barry munday .
barry munday won me over. with an amazing ensemble it flat - out works as a bright - but - deadpan comedy
i’ve been a patrick wilson fan since seeing him in little children a few years ago. i was excited, then, that he got a full - on lead role with barry munday .
like “choke” as a sitcom, “barry munday” suffers from an ever - present lightness despite its vulgar nature, deflating the emotional value intrinsic to the plot. with its character’s dilemma fully in place — after the testicular accident, his work life grows unstable and naturally his sex life goes extinct — “barry munday” falls prey to a tepid plot device: a moody young woman (judy greer) shows up claiming that barry fathered her child after a one - night stand. unable to recollect the incident, barry simply accepts it and attempts to leverage the accident into a means of injecting significance into his life .
barry munday, a suburban wanna - be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions... his testicles. to make matters worse, barry learns he' s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can' t remember having sex with. with this being barry last chance to ever be a father, barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way. filled with an ensemble of unusual characters ,
barry munday
is the surprisingly heart - warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man .
barry munday, a libido - driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed .
barry munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he' s missing his family jewels. to make matters worse, he learns he' s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can' t remember having sex with .
urltoken - follow us! barry mundy hits theaters on october 1st, 2010. premieres on demand, xbox live, playstation, amazon and vudu on august 27th, 2010. cast: judy greer, mae whitman, patrick wilson, chloë sevigny, missi pyle barry munday, a suburban wanna - be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions... his testicles. to make matters worse, barry learns he' s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can' t remember having sex with. with this being barry' s last chance to ever be a father, barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way. filled with an ensemble of unusual characters ,
barry munday
is the surprisingly heart - warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man. barry mundy trailer courtesy magnolia pictures .
with the film the accidental husband, i thought i had found the worst possible premise for a romantic comedy (a hacker legally marries two people who hate each other); then, i saw the switch in order to prove that it was possible to fall even lower (a man exchanges his sperm with... ah, forget about it). and more recently, i watched the film barry munday in order to remind us that there is simply no limit for the presence of bad ideas in hollywood. needless to say, i found barry munday very boring and a waste of time. there was only one reason why i decided to watch barry munday: the great 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 for years to see her huge talent recognized. unfortunately, she seems typecast in supporting roles of
best friend
or
talkative secretary
, even though she still manages to bring solid works in those minor roles. her performance in barry munday is also competent, and it is what saves this film from reaching deplorable levels. for the rest, barry munday is a weak, tedious and unfunny romantic comedy, and i cannot recommend it, despite greer' s performance .
in another successful against - type performance, patrick wilson is convincing as barry, a would - be don juan whose stalking grounds (tgi friday' s and tiki bars) are perfectly suited for his soulless come - ons. after one seduction goes violently awry, leaving barry without his testicles, munday begins to sense his life may not be as full as it should be .
d’arienzo (adapting frank turner hollon’s novel) delivers the usual routine with a few eccentric digressions (the intervention of a genital mutilation support group offers a few shallow laughs), but he simultaneously avoids giving munday’s world more than the vaguest definition. the result often feels like an unfunny “saturday night live” sketch in need of better gags. with no constant sense of reality, “barry munday” feels like a shallow comedy dressed as something far quirkier .
much of the problems with “barry munday” come from its repeatedly uninspiring screenplay, which contains a constant barrage of personal gripes (“i once had options. my balls were great. i was great”) and directionless vulgarity (“my tits feel like they’re two ziploc bags full of oatmeal, ” says the mother of his child) that lacks enough ingenuity to give momentum to the lightness. but the real precedent for the plot of “barry munday” harkens back to preston sturges’s classic 1944 comedy “the miracle of morgan’s creek, ” in which a virtuous young man takes on responsibility for the pregnancy of a woman knocked up by another anonymous soldier. parenthood offers an easy route for the coming - of - age story, even when it involves older men, and “barry munday” occasionally manages to create a gently bittersweet vibe due to this decisive blend. but an appreciable tone and the considerable efforts on wilson’s part to make barry come alive simply fail to compensate for the greater lack of competence needed to excuse the shoddy, half - baked plot. the movie’s forgettable qualities set it up for a put - down on its own lame terms: “barry” is mundane .
barry remains immature in serious situations like a doctors office. he does follow a respectable character arc, never sacrificing humor to learn his lessons .
barry munday, a wanna - be ladies man, wakes up on a hospital after a freak accident to discover he’s missing his “family jewels. ” making it worse, he then faces a paternity lawsuit from a woman doesn’t even remember. follow this hilarious and heart - warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man .
when barry and ginger are having sex, barry points out a smiley face tattoo that ginger has on her left leg, which ginger said she got in college. but in a previous scene, before ginger was to give birth, there is a clear shot of her left leg and no sign of any tattoo .
austin - - like a frumpy version of
knocked up
playing out in a sadder, stranger world ,
barry munday
offers two icky humans and hopes that, by the tale' s end, we' ll be happy they' re procreating. it comes closer to achieving that than we might expect, but the film' s focus on some pretty unappealing quirks limits its commercial appeal .
a surprisingly wistful and winning ode to growing up and finding one' s place in the world. barry is a character straight out of the cult hit office space .
the story follows an average, somewhat - sleazy, middle - brow womanizer. one day while at the movies, he meets and starts hooking up with a (possibly legal ?) teenager, only to have her father show up fresh from the music store with a trumpet in hand. the dad attacks barry with the trumpet, aiming for his most “useful” appendage, leading to an emergency removal of both of barry’s testicles. once out of the hospital and in recovery, barry learns that a woman he had a one night stand with prior to the accident is…
one of the more unusual surprises at south by southwest this year was barry munday, a comedy about a man who loses his testicles and then learns that a one - night stand he had before the incident has resulted in pregnancy. the fact that he was too drunk to remember the tryst is irrelevant, as is the fact that the woman hates him. what matters is that this is the only chance he' ll ever have to be a father .
here' s a film with a plot that sounds so ridiculous it can only turn out to be a stupid movie with horrible acting and cheap laughs. and while some of the laughs are cheap and the acting not oscar worthy by any means, this film ended up being far from stupid. the basic plot is that barry munday is a man who looks at women as your stereotypical single male looks at women. he doesn' t see them for who they are but rather only for their appearance. unfortunately, this results in the loss of his testicles. and that might be where you begin to think
stupid movie ,
but there' s more. following the loss of his testicles, barry receives a call…
knocked up took criticism from skeptics who thought it was a preposterous slacker fantasy that a thin, attractive, motivated career gal like katherine heigl could fall for a lumpen, unemployed stoner like seth rogen. no one, however, would consider judy greer’s character in barry munday —which suggests knocked up re - imagined as sundance fodder—to be a dream girl. playing an angry geek perpetually on the verge of exploding into sour rage, greer is more like a nightmare with legs. she’s an aggressive nerd, carrying a surplus of inchoate anger with nowhere to release it .
what' s surprising about the film is that its loose, goofy central performance is by patrick wilson, who has nearly always come across in movies as stiff and flat. (the major exception was hard candy, in which he was threatened with castration. apparently what you have to do to get a great performance out of patrick wilson is talk about cutting his junk off .) barry munday has some odd plot holes, but they are more than outweighed by wilson' s character - - a kind of horndog michael scott - - and by judy greer' s adorably snarky turn as the dowdy woman he knocks up .
when barry and ginger are in the doctor' s office, the doctor states that the due date is december 10th. this would be about one month longer than expected since the conception date was february 11th. this would be a ten month pregnancy rather than the usual nine month time frame .
the story of an aging man - child has been told and retold so many times that it has evolved into a kind of narrative ritual. witness the phenomena of seth rogen and his ilk, a brand exclusively defined for their dopey charm in the face of adult responsibilities, or the series of stubborn lackadaisical men throughout mike judge’s oeuvre: the character type often works because he remains likable in spite of his archetypical trainwreck routine. chris d’arienzo’s “ barry munday ” runs this playful stereotype into the ground with its titular crude ladies’ man (patrick wilson), whose rough wake - up call arrives when he loses both testicles and looks beyond the bedroom to a more settled life. thanks to wilson’s gentle, unassuming performance, the character works well enough to generate a steady volume of pathos. the rest of the movie is a different story .
barry: he slacks off at work, savors one - nights stands, and is getting older (young people call him
sir
). then, he loses his testicles in an assault and gets a letter saying he' s to become a father. he can' t remember the woman and asks if she' ll meet with him: she' s ginger, a solitary waspish woman about his age. he acknowledges paternity and wants to be a part of the pregnancy and parenthood. with reluctance and lots of put - downs, ginger introduces him to her family, including the favored younger sister, and allows him to come with her to her doctor' s. with his own father issues, a canny boss, brittle ginger, and her vampy sister, can barry hang in there ?
stunned when a lawyer' s letter claims he has impregnated a woman he doesn' t remember meeting, barry is a good sport when she turns out to be cartoonishly unattractive and foul - tempered: ginger farley (judy greer, laying it on a bit thick) doesn' t seem interested in wringing child - support from him, and appears to have made contact solely to insult him for having drunkenly seduced her .
after making broadway safe for hair metal in
rock of ages ,
director chris d' arienzo probably feels he owns the self - consciously schlocky songs that pepper the soundtrack, but those don' t help the picture' s efforts to find the right tone - - and groups like styx and whitesnake have been used ironically in so many other films now that they' re as stale as barry' s friend' s obsession with air - guitar .
if ginger' s motivations are poorly established, the script makes more sense of barry' s decision to insist on being involved with the pregnancy: knowing he' ll never have the opportunity to be a father again, he has reconsidered his playboy ideal. but the low - key way this sentiment is conveyed sits uncomfortably with the movie' s overall tone, with frank helmer' s costumes and paul oberman' s production design emphasizing the garish and unfashionable, and plentiful other touches - - like ginger' s parents munching snacks as they observe their daughter' s labor pains - - seem intended to keep us from taking any of this seriously .
judy greer als alice die kellnerin in
adaptation
hat sich für immer in mein gehirn gebort und ich bin immer noch der meinung, dass sie als schauspielerin unterbewertet ist. auch bei patrick wilson hatte ich nach
little children
und
watchmen
das gefühl, dass er total unterschätzt wird. die beiden waren der hauptgrund, warum ich diesen merkwürdigen film immer sehen wollte über einen mann der als chauvinist und womanizer startet, dann seine eier verliert und durch einen one - night stand, an den er sich nicht mehr erinnern kann, vater wird. was für eine ausgangssituation. gerade die wandlung von barry und das zusammen kommen mit ginger wirkt sehr sprunghaft und der ganze film verläuft irgendwie querbeet. aber irgendwie hat der film sein herz wohl doch am rechten fleck kann es nur nicht so umsetzen .
don jon
war da besser .
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hilarious. it' s one of those comedies that just works so well, delivering laughs from a lot of unexpected places, and it may be one of wilson' s best roles to date .
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d' arienzo' s screenplay and direction goes for a cross between naturalism and absurdity, but it' s largely a queasy, oil - and - water blend .
an oddball feature lacking a fine point to tie it all together, but it spotlights a cast game to try something new for a change, committing to the aimlessness with endearing slack - jawed concentration .
d' arienzo' s love of trite indie - movie signposts of comic quirkiness - - deadpan delivery, overly formal camerawork, characters delivering dialogue into the camera, stunt casting - - is ultimately regrettable .
this sluggishly paced quirkfest is awfully sophomoric for a film all about giving up the facile thrills of youth for the responsibilities of adulthood .
just what we need, another self - consciously quirky indie comedy as low on laughs as it is on inspiration .
manages to be both funny and touching when it doesn' t seem capable of either .
handsome actor patrick wilson dons a scruffy goatee and a hideous clothing to play a loser whose life revolves around picking up women in sad little bars for one - night stands. wilson leads a shallow life unencumbered by meaning until he makes out with the wrong stranger and ends up on the receiving end of a vicious beatdown that costs him his testicles. shortly after his unfortunate accident, wilson receives news that he’s impregnated greer, though he has no memory of sleeping with her. seeking purpose in a rudderless existence, wilson throws himself into future fatherhood .
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a fairly broad comedy that tries admirably to straddle the line between bawdy / slacker and romantic. patrick wilson and judy greer are great as the leads and there are a few good laughs to be had. the biggest problem is that there' s too much heart for the movie to fully take the plunge into shocking humour, and there' s too little of the latter to truly appeal to the chic flick brigade. there is no real narrative focus and the movie has several points late on where it could' ve ended. in fact, it felt as though a good half hour had been removed in editing as the pacing gets whacky about an hour in. worth a watch if simply for patrick wilson' s comedic turn. this man should do more of the funny .
after unwillingly and violently becoming castrated, womanizing patrick wilson discovers he impregnated ugly duckling judy greer in a one night stand... but he decides to change his ways and support her! an unsubtle allegory for life with an expecting mother it may be, but what starts out as a flimsy comedy morphs into a light blend of drama comedy with appealing performances from the leads and a genuinely warm message. especially recommended for daddies .
this is a good movie. not great, but charming, funny, and in the end sincere .
such a blah movie. just goes to show that a good cast don' t mean shit when your script doesn' t know what it' s doing. it' s stupid but it mostly plays it safe, creating a truly unmemorable experience .
weder fisch noch fleisch, aber mit einer umwerfenden judy greer, die man hier mal in einer hauptrolle bewundern darf .
i expected this to be something full of cheap laughs and typical
man feels bad for himself and thus is insufferable
stuff but i was so surprised at how much it avoided being just that and it turned into genuine character development for both the leads. judy greer is a talent that really deserves bigger roles because she is genuinely so funny without trying and patrick wilson is much funnier than i gave him credit for .
cute movie and all, but i don’t want to live in a world where patrick wilson doesn’t have his testicles. i know it’s just a movie, but still .
this film has one leg in the will ferrell / ben stiller brand of absurdist comedy, but where they' re turned up to an unbearable 10, this one settles in at around 5, with far more subtle laughs (especially in the facial reactions) and more heart. patrick wilson and judy greer are simply fantastic in this. for my money, this may be the most underrated comedy of the last 10 years .
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eric d. snider (website) is pretty easy to persuade, actually, so no need to get rough .
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barry munday ( alternatively known as family jewels ) is a 2010 american comedy film directed by chris d'arienzo ; it is based on the novel life is a strange place by frank turner hollon . the film stars patrick wilson as the title character , as well as judy greer , malcolm mcdowell , chloë sevigny , cybill shepherd , billy dee williams , emily procter , colin hanks , jean smart , mae whitman , and kyle gass . it premiered at the south by southwest film festival in march 2010 . the film was released on october 1 , 2010 . 
barry munday (alternatively known as family jewels) is a 2010 american comedy film directed by chris d'arienzo; it is based on the novel life is a strange place by frank turner hollon. the film stars patrick wilson as the title character, as well as judy greer, malcolm mcdowell, chloë sevigny, cybill shepherd, billy dee williams, emily procter, colin hanks, jean smart, mae whitman, and kyle gass. it premiered at the south by southwest film festival in march 2010. the film was released on october 1, 2010.
barry munday (alternatively known as family jewels) is a 2010 american comedy film directed by chris d'arienzo; it is based on the novel life is a strange place by frank turner hollon. the film stars patrick wilson as the title character, as well as judy greer, malcolm mcdowell, chloë sevigny, cybill shepherd, billy dee williams, emily procter, colin hanks, jean smart, mae whitman, and kyle gass. it premiered at the south by southwest film festival in march 2010. the film was released on october 1, 2010.