Due Date
From The Hangover director Todd Phillips, Due Date throws two unlikely companions together on a road trip that turns out to be as life-changing as it is outrageous. Expectant first-time father Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships and Peter's last nerve.
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Interesting. - Romer819
I refused to go see this in theaters because I thought it looked kinda of dumb. Something recently has gotten me to like that fuzzy fuzz ball of an Actor Zack Galafanakis**(complete incorrect spelling sorry)**. To my surprise this movie actually turned out to be very good and very meaningful. The story of a child like man who wants to persue his dreams and the story of a man, who's heading home to witness the birth of his child, has to take care of this child like man.
I hate going into details because I usually won't stop rambling, so I won't. All I will says is, this movie is worth the view.Funny throughout. - Metricmiler
This characters of this movie at times were very annoying but that is what made it funny. You went from hating one character then the other but in the end they both grew on you. I would recommend this movie for a great laugh and a heart warming movie with a moral. All in all it was very entertainingBelly laughs....... but no Hangover - HotTubber
Recipe for nutso fun: Mix Zach Galifianakis with Robert Downey Jr. Apply the same mold John Hughes used for Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Have Todd Phillips stir with wack-ass abandon. Don't worry about missing ingredients, like plot. Serve to an audience ready to lap it up.
There you have Due Date, a raucous ride built out of used parts and bizarre shifts in tone but driven by two comic virtuosos who know that the best laugh riffs rise from a baseline of character. Director and co-writer Phillips realizes his new movie has an 800-pound monkey on its back. That would be The Hangover, the 2009 farce that came out of nowhere to sprinkle Galifianakis with stardust and rule the world. Is Due Date the new Hangover? It is not. But it has its own rewards.
They all have to do with the interaction of the lead actors. Downey plays Peter Highman, a stressed-out suit in a hurry to leave Atlanta and get home to Los Angeles, where his wife is about to give birth. Is he the father, or is it his BFF (Jamie Foxx)? Don't care. You won't either. What matters is that Peter meets Ethan Tremblay (Galifianakis), a wanna-be actor and full-fledged pain in the ass who gets them kicked off a jet and sharing a car to L.A. When they aren't out to kill each other, they grudgingly reveal their secret hearts. Sugar shock? Sometimes. But when Peter pushes Ethan into improvs to prove he can act, or the two just let their emotions bleed, Galifianakis and Downey gift Due Date with something rare in any kind of movie: a soul.
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Interesting. - Romer819
I refused to go see this in theaters because I thought it looked kinda of dumb. Something recently has gotten me to like that fuzzy fuzz ball of an Actor Zack Galafanakis**(complete incorrect spelling sorry)**. To my surprise this movie actually turned out ...Funny throughout. - Metricmiler
This characters of this movie at times were very annoying but that is what made it funny. You went from hating one character then the other but in the end they both grew on you. I would recommend this movie for a great laugh and a heart warming movie with ...Belly laughs....... but no Hangover - HotTubber
Recipe for nutso fun: Mix Zach Galifianakis with Robert Downey Jr. Apply the same mold John Hughes used for Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Have Todd Phillips stir with wack-ass abandon. Don't worry about missing ingredients, like plot. Serve to an audience ...