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- 2014
- Not Rated
- FilmBuff
- 1 h 27 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- FilmBuff
- 1 h 27 m
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.
Directed By: Rob Pearlstein
Written By: Rob Pearlstein
- 2014
- Not Rated
- FilmBuff
- 1 h 27 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- FilmBuff
- 1 h 27 m
Someone Marry Barry
52
5.0
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.
Directed By: Rob Pearlstein
Written By: Rob Pearlstein
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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80% Mixed
4 Reviews
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20% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
52
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There’s nothing sophisticated or groundbreaking here, but the movie is a moderately good entry in the bro-grows-up genre.
Labine and Punch invest their performances with enough anarchic comic inventiveness and genuine chemistry to make their characters’ courtship and relationship issues funnily entertaining.
Someone Marry Barry is a reasonably entertaining argument that good performers can enliven weak material.
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.
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
5.0
33% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
5.0
33% Positive
3 Ratings
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33% Mixed
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3 Ratings
33% Negative
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