Review: Due Date

Watching trailers for Due Date reminded me instantly of some of the classic scenes from Tommy Boy when Chris Farley and David Spade road-tripped across the states in order to save their auto parts factory. In this case, Zack Galifianakis took on Farley's role and Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., took on Spades as the two travel across the country in order to make it home in time for the birth of Jr.'s characters child.

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Photo source- Tommy Boy Poster

Tommy Boy and Due Date's promotional poster are almost identical

Despite the fact that this story has been done before, Galifianakis takes on the role of the ignorant and kind-hearted character and makes it his own. His character, Ethan Tremblay's almost female mannerisms and complete disregard for society's unspoken rules is what makes the majority of laughs in this film. But it's the "bromance" between Jr.'s character (Peter) and Ethan that creates the real meat of the story.

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Galifianakis and Jr.'s characters fighinting in Due Date

Jamie Foxx has a small role in the film playing the calm, cool and collected friend of Peter. Juliette Lewis also make a cameo staring at a drug-dealing mother of two and Danny McBride of Eastbound & Down fame, is just another character who makes the road-trip more interesting in the film. But the best performance in the movie has to go to Galifianakis's characters dog for reasons I want spoil, but let's just say it's nothing I've ever seen on screen before.


My main gripe with this film is its mistake of choosing for Jr.'s character to perform a monologue in the first minute, which so blatantly gives away the ending. Other than that, Due Date fulfills its purpose by providing enough laughs to want to sit through the entire film.