Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monoghan, Jamie Foxx

Director: Todd Phillips

It is difficult to keep your audience on a laugh riot through the length of the movie, however ‘The Hangover’ Director, Todd Phillips, brings us yet another raucous, formulaic comedy, but this time with an improvisational feel and a two-time academy award nominated actor. 

Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr and The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis is structured as your standard comic road-movie. But it’s the terrific chemistry between the leads and the steady stream of dirty jokes that makes it so watchable, despite how familiar the movie feels. The movie tracks the four-day journey of Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.), a stress induced rage filled architecht, as he attempts to make his way home for the birth of his first child. After being forcefully ejected from an aircraft due to an argument over the use of the words “bomb” and “terrorist” on planes, he is left with little other choice than to embark on a cross-country road trip with the very man responsible for said removal, Ethan Tremblay (Zack Galifianakis).

The journey lurches from one outrageous mishap to another. These include a detour to acquire Ethan’s ‘medical marijuana’ from the home of a drug-dealer, a violent encounter with a handicapped bank clerk, a road-accident caused due to Ethan falling asleep at the wheel, and a daring escape from the Mexican border patrol.

For what it is, DUE DATE succeeds in providing a healthy dose of laughs. It’s an easy movie to enjoy if you just sit back shut your brain off and not take too seriously. At times it evokes several déjà vu moments but is different enough from Phillips’ previous films to justify its existence.

There’s more to the film than just this crude humor. In fact, it’s peppered with sentimental touches in the scenes where these mismatched co-passengers find themselves slowly becoming friends.

I give this movie 3 & ½ stars and would definitely recommend to watch it for the actors and the hilarious dialogues that grips you through the movie.