Someone Marry Barry

Name: Someone Marry Barry
Genre: Comedy
Released: February 7, 2014
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 52

2014

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FilmBuff | Release Date: February 7, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Three childhood friends scheme to find a wife for their socially inappropriate pal Barry (Tyler Labine), but their plan backfires when his new girlfriend, Melanie (Lucy Punch), turns out to be just like him.

Director: Rob Pearlstein

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Frank Scheck

Feb 9, 2014

Labine and Punch invest their performances with enough anarchic comic inventiveness and genuine chemistry to make their characters’ courtship and relationship issues funnily entertaining. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Feb 12, 2014

There’s nothing sophisticated or groundbreaking here, but the movie is a moderately good entry in the bro-grows-up genre. Read full review

The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth

Feb 7, 2014

Someone Marry Barry is a reasonably entertaining argument that good performers can enliven weak material. Read full review

Nick Schager

Feb 4, 2014

The way the film hews to tiresome conventions is itself a buzzkill, but worse is its sheer lack of energy, as Pearlstein stages serious and/or heartfelt conversations that go on twice as long as necessary and treat the characters as more than the two-dimensional caricatures they actually are. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Feb 7, 2014

But because the movie is at heart as fake-sentimental as any other such motion picture, or greeting card, or what have you, there's a lot of backpedaling after, say, a random attempt to milk laughs out of human trafficking. Read full review

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LeZee

May 11, 2015

There are no mass actors in this film yet fulfills with the quality of the A list movies. What a wonderful launch pad for an aspiring filmmaker. He wrote it, as well handled everything and everyone carefully. In the name of comedy, he did not go lousy, like most of the B movies do. One ofThere are no mass actors in this film yet fulfills with the quality of the A list movies. What a wonderful launch pad for an aspiring filmmaker. He wrote it, as well handled everything and everyone carefully. In the name of comedy, he did not go lousy, like most of the B movies do. One of the best main roles ever it was for Lucy Punch in her entire career as far my observation and she outclassed it. Daman Wayans also having a good time recently with movies like 'Let's be Cops', 'Big Hero 6' and this. Certainly his career graph mounting like any actor dreamt for.

Very similar storyline to the movie 'Let's Kill Ward's Wife', but instead 'kill', it replaced with the word 'marry'. Yep, Barry is the character in the movie who is very annoying, so his best buddies plan to set up with a woman to get rid of him. The title character Barry was the most important in the movie and it went to the right person to play. I know him barely, seen in a couple of films and again he was splendid with a casual performance. I am pretty much sure, the sequel is on the card. It will be a double trouble for Barry's buddies, but all my concern is the filmmakers don't want to mess it up like 'Horrible Bosses 2'.

So hilarious, even though, consider it is not a so popular flick. Worry is people will miss this enjoyable movie due to the unaware of its existence. That's the reason I review not-so-popular-good-movie on the regular basis. In my opinion, disappointment is not on the card. Believe me, the movie might not be a good as I am stating, but definitely not a bad one. So in the end, it's up to the collective of the individual's statement that decides the fate of a movie which involves yours as well.

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Benkoko11

Feb 23, 2017

Pearlstein's collection of fart jokes and other scatological bits will only tickle the sides of kids up past bedtime. Some **** are better left unscooped and some films are better left unwatched.

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