Review of Barry Munday (2010) by Frances H — 20 Jan 2013

Barry Munday is a great film, it's entertaining, fun, smart, well acted and hilarious, I really had a great time watching it. It was unfortunately underrated, this movie deserved to be watched by many people. The movie starts off hilariously, showing the crazy central character Barry Munday, but then, after those hilarious and crazy scenes, the movie certainly gets heart when Barry loses his "pair", the movie continues to be funny, but it just has a heart in it that shines, the movie was really well done and I can really indentify it to lots of people. I completely recommend you to watch Barry Munday, it is about fatherhood and it shows that even if the father was a complete idiot, he could still learn a valuable lesson. I really liked this movie, it has a dirty way of making us laugh but it surprisingly still has heart. Watch it if you haven't, it's really worth it, cause Barry Munday knows how to make you laugh out loud and how to leave a smile up your face. Great movie.

Chris D'Arienzo directs this film, I never heard of him before, but I'm sure he has talent, cause he did a great job with this movie, he writed the script so well, he did an amazing job with the characters and he did a great job with the directing. Patrick Wilson takes the lead role, well, he just made me become crazy, cause I'm used to watch him being the supporting actor who's always the "lover", he's almost never funny and he's always annoying, in Barry Munday, he actually turned out to be fantastic and hilarious, this wasn't the best movie of his career, but it was definitely his best perfomance, he was just fantastic here, totally hilarious, Patrick is known from my thirteenth favorite movie, wich is The Switch, he is also known from The A-Team, Morning Glory, Insidious, Hard Candy and some other movies. Judy Greer is great here, she wasn't totally hilarious, but she did had a great perfomance, Judy is known from The Descendents, 13 Going on 30, Three Kings, What Women Want and some other movies. Chloë Sevigny is no big deal here, that's all, Chloë is known from Boys Don't Cry, Zodiac, American Psycho and some other movies. Sow, as you can see, this movie has a great cast, but what really stands out is Patrick Wilson's amazing perfomance, but the rest of the cast was also okay. Great cast.

Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson) is a guy who loves women and doesn't do nothing while he's working, one day, he wakes up at a hospital, realizing that he's missing his "pair". Soon, he recieves a letter saying that Ginger Farley (Judy Greer), is pregnant and Barry is the father, but the problem is that Barry doesn't have a single recolection of having sex with her. It's what's missing that makes them complete.(What I thought about the plot) I loved the plot, is was just genius, it shows that how much paternity can change a man's life, so has the missing of a "pair", I really loved the script, it really looks like it was ment for men and for parents who have no idea what to do. The script was really genius and it worked very well, it was written by Chris D'Arienzo (Director of this movie) and he did a great job with the script and the characters, especially Barry Munday and I think that the script was well adapted, even though I haven't read it, but I know that the movie worked well. Fantastic plot.

Soundtrack, well, I don't remember any theme or something like that, but that's okay, this movie didn't need a great soundtrack if it's already a great movie.

Besides all that, I am now going to tell you what I really thought about this movie. First of all, I think you should really watch Barry Munday, it has a 6 on IMDb but everyone should really watch it, everyone, wich I know it's a big number by the fact that the movie was underrated. Sow, Barry Munday is an indie comedy and it is a stupid movie, it's weird as almost all of the indie comedies, but it has heart and it's a great movie, it was amazingly well done, it was an excellent combination of hilarious and touching but still in the real world, I loved it, it's not a very memorable comedy, but it will still be in my heart, cause this was very worth watching, watch it if you haven't. Overall, Barry Munday is a bery fun movie, it was amazingly well done, it has a great cast, a genius plot and it's a very entertaining movie, I highly recommend it. Is there anything bad about it? No, I don't think so (Just to make you see how good it is). Barry Munday: 8.0/10. Fantastic.

Fantastic movie. Very recommended movie. Grade: B.