*This movie is meant
for mature audiences.
I caught a bit of this movie on tv and decided to rent this
movie so I could watch the rest of it. Due
Date is in the same vein as Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It is a movie where
two opposite people must travel together and everything goes wrong.
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Robert Downey Jnr plays Peter Highman. He’s a quick
tempered, upstanding man who must get home in time to see the birth of his first
child. Peter meets Ethan Tremblay( Zach
Galifianakis) who is a kindhearted, naïve and ignorant man who has
annoying tendencies. Both the men are
heading to Los Angeles but get kicked off the plane after an argument. Both of the
men are on the no fly list so must find another way to travel. Peter has no
money after leaving his wallet in his luggage on the plane. However, Ethan
offers to take him to Los Angeles in a rental car and fund the whole trip. During the journey, lots of arguments and
crazy stuff happens.
This movie has Mature Adult 15+ rating in Australia so I was
expecting to see some depravity. However, I thought the crude humor and
profanity wasn’t that bad in this film. There is drug use but it isn’t a stoner film
as Peter is against drugs and is a straitlaced person. There is hardly any sexual
content in the movie except for one moment of self pleasure. I don’t really
like gross out humor so I was glad this film was tamer than the usual fare.
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I thought that Robert Downey Jnr was perfect as Peter, whose
personality was similar to Tony Stark. He played off well to Zach Galifianakis
who was both gratingly annoying and sympathetic. The two had good chemistry and
it was believable that their characters become friends despite their
differences.
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I thought there weren’t as many hijinks compared to other
movies. I think because there wasn’t as much slapstick humor. I still found the
movie to be entertaining and funny.
Personally, I didn’t have many laugh out loud moments. What I found the
most entertaining was the dialogue between Ethan and Peter.
This movie is good to watch with friends. I think it would
be fun to watch Due Date and Planes, Trains and Automobiles for a movie night.
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