Review of Due Date (2010) by Eli T — 21 Jan 2013
Downey Jr works with what he has, but Due Date's poor script and its dramatically unfunny co-star Zach Galifianakis weighs the movie down beyond the boundaries of funny into the dull territory of tired cliches and monotonous archetypes.
I want to like Zach Galifianakis. I really do. But his character from The Hangover was literally cloned and shoved right back into this movie, rendering it useless. If I didn't like the character the first time around, this time immediately got under my skin.
The chemistry is practically nonexistent, mainly because the old stuffy-guy-forced-to-travel-with-blundering-chubby-moron brings absolutely nothing new to the table, having been done a hundred times before in films like Tommy Boy and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
The script is uninspired and the jokes mostly fall flat. Due Date is a comedy that should have been much better than it was, and it actually has a decently satisfying ending, but the journey was not close to worth it.
Give this one a miss.
This review of Due Date (2010) was written by Eli T on 21 Jan 2013.
Due Date has generally received mixed reviews.
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