Another Hangover was too much to hope for, especially as this was scripted by committee. It’s a bit funny but also quite a bit nasty.
Painfully funny, perfectly cast, Due Date is one of the finest comedies of the year. Todd Phillips’ verve drives the odd-couple-bromanceroad- movie to a bright new destination.
Phillips is never one to shy away from pushing the envelope as far as what’s permissible is concerned, but gags involving spitting in a dog’s face and punching a child fly a little too close to the mark.
There are some nice moments, but the comedy mostly doesn't come off and there is no double-act chemistry between Downey and Galifianakis.
Between Highman’s vicious rants and some eye-wateringly bad-taste jokes, Phillips’s picture doesn’t so much push the envelope of comedy as put the thing through the shredder.
This odd-couple road comedy is – how to put it? – adequate.
It is all about making you laugh and succeeds on that basis at regular intervals.
Worst road movie of the year.
More often, the meandering script lands them in a gooey no-mirth zone, and here it is that the tactics of desperation come into play.
While it's pretty much a rip-off of Planes, Trains And Automobiles there are just about enough laughs to excuse the similarities. This is no Hangover, mind you.
The result is a film that's tonally all over the place and – bar one hilarious scene involving Downey punching a small child – depressingly short on laugh-out-loud gags.
Both actors are quirky enough to make their characters unusual, even if their situation isn't.
A sporadically very funny outing by the director of The Hangover.
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