Review of Due Date (2010) by Oxana — 23 Aug 2014
A funny, insane, and insanely funny movie.
Peter (Robert Downey Jr.) really has some temper issues. It seems like he's looking at it, although I'm not sure whether this road trip was the best thing for him... It seems he came through in the end; bad-tempered and easily irritated, Peter is put into a real test of wills when a man he's never met before causes him to end up on the no-fly list, takes him to the Mexican border and almost ends up killing them - while they are trying to get to LA for the birth of Peter's child!
Ethan (Zach Galifianakis) is a... special case. I didn't really get him. He was nice, and very weird. Almost too nice and too weird. But he also brought the comedy into the big picture, almost naturally.
Sonny, Ethan's French bulldog, was insanely cute but also overlooked; they could have used the dog so much more. Then again, perhaps it was good they left the dog out of the action, seeing how much it had to endure as it was...
There were parts in the plot - and especially characters - who didn't really give anything to the story in general. That gave the pace of the story a bit more slack than it needed, taking us to places that weren't entirely useful. Then again, they had a meaning, albeit a small one, in the general picture.
Altogether, this is a road trip I'll want to see again. Such turns of events, such misery and pain, not to mention the hi-speed chase. A little unrealistic and unbelievable at places, but I liked this movie - and not just because Robert Downey Jr. happens to be one of my favorite actors.
This review of Due Date (2010) was written by Oxana on 23 Aug 2014.
Due Date has generally received mixed reviews.
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