Review - Due Date

Sort of, kind of like an updated Planes, Trains and Automobiles, this mis-fire from Todd Phillips has its moments, unfortunately most of them aren't funny.

The plot crunch -

Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) must get to LA in five days to be at the birth of his firstborn. He is about to fly home from Atlanta when his luggage and wallet are sent to LA without him, and he is put on the "no-fly" list. Desperate to get home Peter is forced to accept the offer of Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) to hitch a ride with him cross-country. Peter is about to go on the most terrifying and agonizing journey of his life.

Thus starts the cycle of the film, Ethan does something annoying ----->Peter gets insanely angry, lashes out---->Peter apologises---->Out of place emotional scene ensues----> Repeat.

Zack Galifianakis plays his typecast role of the annoying, somewhat defective D-bag Ethan, a role that he must get tired of playing because I am defintely getting tired of seeing it. Downey jr doesn't fair much better, basically playing an angry, untight A-hole.

Galifianakis and Downey Jr, hug after having to sit through the film

I mentioned before the out of place emotional scenes in the film, i think this film suffers from the too many writers syndrome, with five writers - I would say not in the same room - collabrating on this, casusing the film to lurch from one scene to the next. Then there is many implausible situations in the film, which are so over the top, you can't but help roll your eyes as the two protagonists are so unlikeable you can't give a  crap what happens to them. Not even a Juliette Lewis and a Jamie Foxx cameo can raise this dud.
Not a great film, not even a good film this is one long boring, annoying, joyless road trip that you wish would end with a head on smash.