Fried Barry

I wouldn't call this a good movie, the story isn't very good, but it's still an interesting watch and has some cool visuals. I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a buy but if you can stream it free, it's not bad if you want to watch something weird.

If there was a plot for this movie, either I missed it or the director forgot to include it. After what I saw in Fried Barry, I'm inclined to think it's the latter.

This was sprinkled with sparse, nonsensical dialogue, which was mostly drug lingo and swear words, along with bizarre musings from passersby.

Each scenario just felt like a scene being filmed from a checklist. The only common thread between them was Barry. Other than that, it was a messy hodgepodge of sequences with goofy goings-on, little cause, and even less reason to care as it drags on.

I will say that visually, the filmmakers captured the essence of drug-induced calamity, with a smattering of clever camera tricks and lighting and such. Also, the Barry actor decently pulled off the fish-out-of-water, stranger-in-a-strange-land act pretty well.

Classified as a horror/comedy, but there's very little horror, and also very little humor. The alien angle is also sparingly present, really only at the beginning and end.

Overall, a C grade effort from me. 5/10 wouldn't watch again.

I didn't think it was a horror comedy in the sense I'm used to, but it wasn't an overly serious film either. It has some very weird and trippy moments that aren't going to be everyone's taste. Personally I had fun with it.

Most of the plot is odd, because the main character isn't driving the story. A lot of events tend to happen around him instead. And he is going along with whatever every one else is doing. Which works to some degree with the whole fish out of water, he is an alien inside a human body experiencing things for the first time.

The lead did pretty well with his physical comedy too.

I was hoping for something a little more intense. The set-up was there for something truly anarchic but it just didn't quite pull it off. It wasn't too bad though, it just seemed to run out of steam very quickly.

Gary Green, the guy who plays Barry, could easily play an alien without needing any makeup. His face is fascinating and his expressions are endlessly entertaining. I could see him as a successful character actor.

Fried Barry fully commits to insanity. No social commentary, no metaphors, no emotional drama, no tense scares, there's barely even a story tying things together. It just weaves together a series of crazy characters and over the top situations into a drug fuelled kaleidoscope. The cast must be comprised of some sort of local comedy troupe as there are so many great character actors all showing up for one liners, while Gary Green kills it as the lead stoned alien. The psychedelic scenes are all suitably trippy and come at you with manic energy. There are several moments where you can't help but laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all, but this is hardly a traditional comedy. In fact there are so few traditional movie elements in this that I'm sure many won't find anything to grasp on to and enjoy. You gotta just strap in and appreciate the frenzy for what it is, or avoid this one all together.