Barry Munday (2010)

Barry Munday was a movie I hadn’t heard anything about. After seeing the trailer, which looked like fun I decided to watch it. It also stars Patrick Wilson who can be very funny.
Enough reason to give this movie a chance. Barry Munday has got an office job, a girlfriend he hardly sees and as a result of that he is a womanizer. He has some success, until he chooses the wrong girl. This results in him being attacked by a guy with a trumpet and losing both his testicles. Yeah, definitely a painful idea, but although some jokes are being made about it at the start, not much more is done with that fact. You would expect other characters to keep making jokes about it, but this is not the case.
Barry receives a letter from a lawyer stating that one of the women he slept with is pregnant.

Of course he can’t remember a thing about it, but decides to meet up with her. They don’t seem to get along, but Barry has to make a choice. Will he take responsibility and be a father or does he choose to live his life as he already was?

The trailer makes this movie look a lot funnier than it actually is. I expect a lot of jokes in comedy and the film just doesn’t deliver. It has some dramatic scenes, but they somehow don’t seem to fit. It makes the movie feel strange. You can’t really laugh a lot about the characters, but at the same time they don’t have any depth, so you don’t feel for them.
It also doesn’t help that you have two characters that don’t like each other. It’s something that might work in other movies, but didn’t feel like it did here.

Although I had no expectations about this movie at all, it still left me disappointed when the credits finally rolled. The movie just doesn’t move along quickly enough to really grab your attention and there aren’t enough jokes. Despite quite a lot of familiar faces the story isn’t good enough to recommend this movie. It’s all real forgettable, so my advice is to skip this.

Score: 4