Review of Due Date (2010) by Lela E — 13 Jan 2012

My 4th favorite movie, that's right, you heard me, this movie is nothing more than clever, entertaining and hilarious. Let me just tell you something, lots of people say that this movie is similliar to The Hangover, I don't think so, Horrible Bosses is my favorite movie, The Hangover is my second, The Hangover Part 2 is my third, but still, I don't think Due Date is similliar to The Hangover, just because Todd Phillips directs it, just because Zach Galifianakis stars in it and it's rated R, it doesn't mean it's similliar to The Hangover, and not just that, this movie is not better than The Hangover or The Hangover Part 2, but it's pretty close to be. When this movie arrived to cinemas I just coodn't wait to watch it, but I unfortunatly didn't, when it came to DVD, I rented it, but just after watching it, two months later, I bout it, it was just extremely necessary, this is a memorable movie, it really is. It has a great cast, it has a clever story, it's super entertaining and it's super hilarious.

Todd Phillips is my second favorite director, he directed my second, my third and my fourth favorite movie, wich is this one, he just keeps surprising me and in this movie, even though it's not similliar to The Hangover, Todd was necessary to direct this movie, he cood gave it the theme of The Hangover that I like, the same kind of comedy, deep, dark and hilarious comedy. Robert Downey Jr. takes the lead role perfectly, I didn't know he was funny at comedies, but even though he had a funny role, he also had a cruel one as well, but that's okay, I liked his perfomance, Robert is known from Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shaddows, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Shaggy Dog, Tropic Thunder, The Soloist and much other movies. Zach is just hilarious again, but he only had a thing about his perfomance wich I don't knw if it's good or not, wich is that Zach basicly plays Alan Garner with other name, but that's okay, because if he does that, it's just because he will make you laugh out-loud, Zach is known from The Hangover, The Hangover Part 2, Dinner for Schmucks, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Puss In Boots and G-Force. Jamie Foxx completes the main men cast, he has a very small role in this movie, I thought he was going to be in it for some longer, but that's okay, he had an ejoyable character, but he had a much better one though, Jamie is known from my favorite movie, Horrible Bosses, The Soloist, Ray and some other movies. So, the rest of the cast is completed by Michelle Monaghan and by several hilarious cameos with Juliette Lewis and Todd Phillips and Danny McBride. Sow, as you can see, this movie has an awesome cast, every actor fitt in their character.

Peter Highman (Robert Downye Jr.) is soon-to-be a father, he is an arqhitect, and he will have to get to Los Angeles to be with Sarah Highman (Michelle Monaghan), his wife, during their son's birth. Peter has the ticket to the airplane, but after meeting a guy, who is Ethan Tremblay/Ethan Chase (Zach Galifianakis), who he met before he went to the plane, everything just seemed to become bad. Because of Ethan, Peter is now on the no fly list, so simplfying, Peter just can't get to Los Angeles on an airplane. He has no wallet or money, so Peter accepts a ride from Ethan, who just maked everything worst for Peter. The ride was starting off good, but then it will become much worse, they will fall from a bridge because of Ethan, Ethan will spend all their money on drugs, Ethan will bve constantly being pissing Peter off, that will be a dangerous memorable ride, a dangerous, unfortunatly memorable ride, will Peter get to L.A. for his son's birth? Clever story, right?

Soundtrack, I liked the soundtrack, but I didn't love it,e ven though I think it applies to this movie, I don't think it's awesome, I mean, who cares about the soundtrack, this movie cood have the most horrifying songs ever, but I wood still love it, so that doesn't matter, but overall, I liked this soundtrack. This movie had surprisingly, action in it, I loved to see the car falling from the bridge, one of the best moments of the movie, I loved the incredible car chase and I loved Ethan thinking the gun in the car was fake (Fact: In The Hangover Part 2, Alan Garner, played by Zach, he also carrys a gun and he thinks is fake and shoots it.). Overall, this movie had a fine soundtrack and some good action, I know that because I've seen this movie so much times I can't even remember how much they were.

Besides all that, let me tell you what I think about this movie, it's just simply the best road-trip movie ever made, and it's also the fourth best movie ever made. This movie is a bit cruel, the characters treat the other ones bad, but I thought that was a good thing about this movie, this movie is not a dark comedy, but it has a dark comedy, if you know what I mean, it has some cruel and dark jokes, but I enjoyed that. This movie is clever, highly entertaining and highly hilarious, but not everyone will appreciate this movie, I did, and I shood probably say that who doesn't like it must be crazy, but I didn't and I don't, this movie is probably not enjoyed by everyone, as I said, this is the fourth best movie ever made, but that's just my opinion, 60% of people will defenitly like it and the rest 40% will probably don't, but that's just a stupid guess, because this is hard to not like, but I just said that, because I've seen several good and bad reviews about this movie, I've seen three stars reviews for this movie, three and a half stars reviews, four stars reviews for this movie and a five star review, wich is mine, my appreciate for this movie is 100%, congrats Todd, I hope you can make an awesome sequel like you showed in The Hangover Part 2.

Fourth best movie ever made. Extremely recommended, 100% recommended. Grade: A+.