Saturday, 29 October 2011

Planes, unoriginality and autmobiles

Due Date (2010)

This is a comedy road film from director Todd Phillips staring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galiflanakis. Up tight man and wacky/annoying man that have just met take a road trip after being put on a no fly list.

There is not a lot of originality about this film which draws a lot of comparisons to Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). What little content there is sticks to common formulas and provides little in the way of humour or mad cap incidents. While there are few positives in the film it is also hard to find any real negatives as the direction and performances are at least average even if they have little to work with.

3/5

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