“Leave your comfort zone”
I suggest you stay in your comfort zone. Due Date is the 2010 road movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. It’s about a man played by Downey who tries to make it to L.A. from Atlanta in time for his wife’s due date. However, he runs into the most annoying guy played by Galifianakis. Will they make it on time? Yes, yes they will.
The film was funny, yet it had real touching moments that made you want to sniffle. However, Galifianakis didn’t fool me. I wanted to punch him really, really bad, yet I wanted to hug him. It was hard to sit through this, because it seemed like it was going nowhere; just one mishap after another. The director Todd Philips who directed The Hangover, Road Trip, and Old School, which are all good films, didn’t deliver his clever writing and those funny scenes where we talk about at school. My views are actually mixed, but nonetheless it really didn’t turn out like I expected it to.
With only few laugh out loud scenes and a couple of memorable lines, Due Date doesn’t deliver close comedy as does other films despite its director and the cast. I give the film a 2.5 out of 5 and, although it’s in theatres, I highly recommend you wait until it is released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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