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.. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it.

As it stands, with my full faculties intact, this film is the loosest collection of random happenings I've ever seen committed to film. Things just happen with no rhyme or reason, Ryan is as limp as an old wet dishrag and barely reacts to anything, and the characters are so stupid they'd lose a battle of wits with a cheese sandwich.

I think another watch - maybe with friends and a boatload of drinks - is in order: at least we might get a good laugh out of it.

Bottom line: If you've exhausted the Neil Breen watchlist, this should definitely be next on your list.

I tried watching this after reading some of the comments (my favourite: "I thought this picture was better than Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and Gone With The Wind all put together, to the power of seven billion").

Sorry. Much as I'd love to cheer on a movie from Saskatchewan, "Ryan's Babe" is utterly unwatchable. The performances, script, and inept direction would be enough to sink it. However, I must single out "composer" Ross Nykiforuk for special mention. His bizarre and relentless score ( and I mean relentless -- the awful music never lets up for a second) had me shaking my head in disbelief.

Oh, and what's with the credit "Directed by Ray Ramayya, PhD"? We're pleased that you successfully defended your thesis, Dr. Ray. Now put it to better use.

The actors are forgettable, but oh my, the cars!

It seems they plumbed the depths of the Sascatchewan used car lots to find cars for Ryan. We have K-cars, J-cars, and worse. Usually movies outfit the leads with Lambos and Maseratis, but this movie goes with the unwashed Corsica with the crached-windshield motif. Is the writer trying to say that the characters are as broken and dull as the cars? Why doesn't the hottie get a better car than the rest? Does the director drive a Yugo? This movie raises more questions than it answers.

Never before has a film evoked so many different emotions in me. It is a perfectly structured, well thought out, well written and shot film. Ryan's Babe needs a 2018 reboot with Rich Evans as the lead.

A must see.

This film broke new ground. Ryan is the key to all of this. If we could get Ryan working, because he's a funnier character than we've ever had.

As you can tell from some of the other, obviously tongue in cheek reviews, people watch 'Ryan's Babe' as a kind of so-bad-it's-good, unintentional comedy. The film holds your interest, and on that level it is entirely enjoyable.

There's only one problem: we can't tell whether director Ray Ramayya is an idiot or a genius.

'Ryan's Babe' is a portrait of Ryan (Bill LeVasseur), who is handsome and attractive to women but otherwise a zero. 'Ryan's Babe' is a road film- but Ryan isn't going anywhere, and Ryan never does anything. Instead, things happen to him. His character and motives are nonexistent. When Ryan isn't kidnapped (which happens three times), he is captive to his utter lack of judgment. Ryan is neither to be liked nor disliked- he is totally null and void.

'Ryan's Babe' is the cinematic equivalent of a picaresque novel, a genre that follows the life of a low level criminal. These novels follow the character through a series of loosely connected episodes, but lack a conventional plot. In the world of film, 'Ryan's Babe' is in the same territory as Stanley Kubricks 'Barry Lyndon' and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Querelle'.

So far so good. But intentionally or not, Ramayya filmed a movie about a man whose life is totally out of control in a style which is totally out of control. It's difficult to make a film about a bore which isn't boring, yet this film is enjoyable and the style genuinely innovative.

Ramayya juxtaposes action, dialog, sound, and expression in a way we have never seen before. Dialog is a series of non sequiturs, and the automated dialogue replacement is strangely dissonant. Foreshadowing leads nowhere, and there is a near total disconnect between events. Flashbacks within flashbacks recall 'Pulp fiction's' non-sequential editing.

Ryan's adventures are violent and entirely ludicrous, which only adds to the film. More than making any statement, Ramayya seems intent on creating his own reality (something John Waters did successfully in 'Dangerous living').

'Ryan's Babe' is a paradox. We can't tell if it's more in keeping with 'An Andalusian dog' or 'The room'- surrealism often verges on the ridiculous. Either way, David Lynch should take note.

Hello, I am Greta Van Susteren. I was recently in Canada and came across this move, which melted my cold cold heart. I laughed so hard that I nearly choked on my burrito that I was eating at the time. The makers of this motion picture should be very proud of themselves. I thought this picture was better than Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and Gone With The Wind all put together, to the power of seven billion, I mean this honestly, with no hyberbole. The male lead was a bit drab, but this was made up for by the hilarious ending and that hot little number in his car in the end scene. Whoa momma. She was pretty enough to make even me, the most heterosexual woman of all time think about changing my mind.

It left my brain feeling like it had been drained of oxygen. I was bewildered, frustrated, and in pain. I highly recommend it if you hate yourself

I thought this was a movie with much that I call "ha-ha", in that it produced copious amounts of the "ha-ha" as I watched the images produced by this film flicker across the "screen" of my tele-visor. My favourite part was when the policeman turned his automobile around with great haste to arrest the protagonist in this moving picture, for some sort of infringement of local law. I give this movie two thumbs up, even if I no longer have the use of one of my thumbs.

It is rare, when wandering through this haze we call life, to encounter something that utterly defeats our logical faculties. It is rarer, still, for this to occur in an artistic medium. Ryan's Babe is one such piece of art. It is baffling, energizing, and ultimately, it's about family.

If you desire an insight into this haunted visage through which we direct our gaze, one can do no better than Ryan's Babe.

May Ray Ramayya rest in piece. We are all in his debt.

Throughout the entire movie, I was wondering exactly what genre this movie fell under. Was this movie a comedy, drama, romance? Somewhere around the halfway mark when he was about to drive home with a teddy bear and got distracted by his girlfriend or something in a domestic dispute, I realized that it was not defined by a basic genre ever seen before in the media industry. I came to the conclusion that this movie was the first Ryan-type film, much like Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding. The entire movie made me feel like I was lost in a museum and every hallway was teasing me that it was an exit but it was just an entrance into another exhibit with no end in sight and no rhyme or reason to its machinations.

Also, it's worth pointing out that every single character in this movie is not actually talking in real time; it's all dubbed over. My favorite scene is when one of the "babe's" fathers kidnapped his own daughter, and the moment she got into his car, he said the words, "YOU LOOK LIKE A PIECE OF SH**!" in a tone that didn't match the character's personality, and then proceeded to dump her on the side of the curb. I don't recall this leading to anything meaningful in the film or mattering in any way and I was entirely confused by the whole ordeal.

All in all, I would watch this again just to read the names of the people who made it in the credits and laugh at their obscurity.

This flick had all ya want in a movie! It had jokes, wacky plot twists, and also turns! All the actors in this movie was good! As I watched it, I could not believe these people who were on the television had never acted before in movies! Well, let ol' Ray Palmer tell you one thing-- these folks got chops! I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the REAL Ryan's Babe (Arabala judd) in a couple of years accepting an award from the academy awards ceremony held in hollywood, where they give out awards for the top actress. Serious. So, I hope this movie gets some support behind it, because I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard, as that last scene with the police, and the hottie in the skirt and--well you'll just have to see it! It's worth it!

We had a fu*king blast with this film. It's one of those kinds of movies that it's so bad it's good. I noticed that the voice lines are dubbed over the actors but in a way where the audio and video were extremely de-synced. The story was so bad, it felt like a fever dream to me. Every scene is so unrelated to the one before and the one after it, and this is because the writer may be so intelligent or extremely brain-dead, it felt like a Tarantino film but watered down to a factor of 12 million. The acting job was far from good, but yet at the same time far from terrible. This film had no actors that my friends or I had ever heard of. Bill LeVasseur's role as Ryan was surprisingly one of the best jobs of acting in this film, because his character was very poorly written, as was this film, but that was what me and my friends thought made the film one of the funniest experiences we have ever had together. Great job, Ray Ramayya.

The film was hilarious in some ways and sad in others times but most of all, fun to watch. I give Ray two thumbs up on this accomplishment and I think Ryan (Bill LeVasseur) was stellar as a guy who just cant win, no matter what he did...nice flick

I had a chance to see Ryan's Babe a few days ago and it was wonderful if maybe a bit campy but I like campy, it's good. As far as the lead actor I don't know who he is but he's hot. Definatley worth watching the movie just to get another look at his acting abilitity. A must watch.