Take My Bro, Please: ‘Someone Marry Barry,’ a Gross-Out Rom-Com

For a gross-out movie, “Someone Marry Barry” has a respectable number of genuinely funny moments. Over all, it’s still kind of crass and lowbrow, showing a particular obsession with flatulence, but there’s a good-heartedness to it that somehow overrides your gut instinct to stop watching.

Tyler Labine is Barry, a lunk who lacks the social filters most of us have and is thus constantly embarrassing his three best friends (Thomas Middleditch, Hayes MacArthur and Damon Wayans Jr.). They decide that the best way to solve this persistent problem is to find a wife for Barry, so that he can become her problem.

That leads to some matchmaking scenes, including a speed-dating sequence, that look borrowed from a zillion other movies of this ilk. But things perk up once Barry meets Melanie (Lucy Punch), a female version of himself in terms of inappropriateness.

Mr. Labine and Ms. Punch find a workable comic chemistry, and the script by Rob Pearlstein (who also directed) gives Barry’s buddies some amusing bits as well. There’s nothing sophisticated or groundbreaking here, but the movie is a moderately good entry in the bro-grows-up genre.

For a gross-out movie, “Someone Marry Barry” has a respectable number of genuinely funny moments. Over all, it’s still kind of crass and lowbrow, showing a particular obsession with flatulence, but there’s a good-heartedness to it that somehow overrides your gut instinct to stop watching.

Tyler Labine is Barry, a lunk who lacks the social filters most of us have and is thus constantly embarrassing his three best friends (Thomas Middleditch, Hayes MacArthur and Damon Wayans Jr.). They decide that the best way to solve this persistent problem is to find a wife for Barry, so that he can become her problem.

That leads to some matchmaking scenes, including a speed-dating sequence, that look borrowed from a zillion other movies of this ilk. But things perk up once Barry meets Melanie (Lucy Punch), a female version of himself in terms of inappropriateness.

Mr. Labine and Ms. Punch find a workable comic chemistry, and the script by Rob Pearlstein (who also directed) gives Barry’s buddies some amusing bits as well. There’s nothing sophisticated or groundbreaking here, but the movie is a moderately good entry in the bro-grows-up genre.