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80Phillips goes too far sometimes (border-jail breakout?), but his new direction is promising.
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75The situations sometimes feel contrived, but the characters never do, particularly because Galifianakis remains simultaneously charming and unrelentingly irritating.
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75Shockingly, it's funny. Often in shocking or at least wildly inappropriate ways.
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75It's hard to resist the pairing of such talented actors as Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galifianakis - and they prove why here. They are funny guys, both of whom make the most of the material.
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Dec 15, 201070So infuriating is Ethan that Due Date very nearly loses us, too, at the outset, but over time, the bearded boor manages to win everyone over, audience included.
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70Their friendship in Due Date is hard-won, and the audience is right there with them.
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67It's a nice pairing of singular personalities deserving better material, or a shorter leash on the improv.
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67In its best moments, the film's duo of Galifianakis and Downey Jr. remind us of a bickering Laurel & Hardy digging themselves out of another fine mess. And we're happy to be along for the ride.
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67And so by the time the pair admire the Grand Canyon and, Due Date has lost its way, relying on its leading men to lead by charisma alone, even though their characters have nowhere interesting to go besides the happily-ever-after of dull, responsible male maturity.
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63More a matter of chemistry than deadlines.
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63Due Date isn't pretty; in fact, it gets kind of ugly. But, at least in the eyes of certain beholders, therein lies its peculiar, bent beauty.
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63Pregnant with possibility; it's the delivery that disappoints.
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63Recipe for nutso fun: Mix Zach Galifianakis with Robert Downey Jr. Apply the same mold John Hughes used for "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." Have Todd Phillips stir with wack-ass abandon. Don't worry about missing ingredients, like plot. Serve to an audience ready to lap it up.
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63I winced more than laughed at this movie, which has almost as many broken bones as punch lines.
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63So the movie probably contains enough laughs to satisfy the weekend audience. Where it falls short is in the characters and relationships.
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Dec 15, 201060Fast, lazy, and out of control in a manner that's basically commendable.
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60Equal parts appealing and appalling innocence, with a spark of anarchic menace, Mr. Galifianakis is good enough to make you almost forget the movie.
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60Due Date should be a disaster, derivative of every road-trip movie you've ever seen. What prevents that are the efforts of the two stars.
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55A massive wedgie of a comedy, which is to say it's a comedy of extreme discomfort.
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50Todd Phillips' follow-up to the most successful R-rated comedy of all time serves up its share of laughs while not actually providing a terribly enjoyable time because of a queasy undercurrent that never goes away.
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50Manic with an itch.
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50The actors are fine: It's their long, arduous trek that lets the movie down.
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50Not without humor, but it lacks the explosive spontaneity of "The Hangover."
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50Like the direction, the script veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination.
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50Still, this feels like minor Phillips to me -- something in the neighborhood of 2006's "School for Scoundrels," quality-wise, though with a much grimmer heart.
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50An oddly listless and downbeat affair, setting these two beloved eccentrics adrift in a road movie that's rarely funny enough to connect as absurdist comedy and rarely compelling enough to work as recession-era male-bonding melodrama.
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50This is a disappointing turn coming from Phillips, particularly since "The Hangover" was such a fresh, bracing brew of black comic fun.
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50A rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy.
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50Not quite the yuk-fest one was hoping for or as perversely alienating as "Observe and Report," Due Date shares the schizophrenic quality, though not the numbing length, of another Seth Rogen movie, "Funny People."
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50It's slobby, goony, and gross, also occasionally funny, but not occasionally enough.
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40This is the kind of movie you should never see twice, because so much of it is based in appall-me humor. Meaning you'll laugh the first time in the reflexive way you do when you can't believe how audacious the comedy is and how uncomfortable the situations are, whereas a second viewing would afford you an opportunity to feel kind of rotten about laughing the first time.
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40It's not the most high-concept movie of the year, or indeed of any other. Due Date is most interesting, and most fearful, when it loiters on the threshold of the homoerotic.
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40The most offensive bodily fluid being hurled around in Due Date are the tears that Phillips dishonestly tries to wrest from the audience's eyes.
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40Another "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.
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40This odd-couple comedy reunites Galifianakis with Todd Phillips, who directed "The Hangover," but don't expect anything like the other movie's novel plotting or wild slapstick.
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38not so much a movie as an "act," one that belongs at a club called Shenanigans or maybe Chuckleheads.
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38The pathos really are shameless, arriving with killing regularity and false humility.
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30The basic problem is the script, which is credited to three writers plus the director - seldom a good sign. Never mind that it's a retread of "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" minus the trains, and minus John Candy.
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25The comedy never really takes off because it's phony.
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Positive: 32 out of 48
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Mixed: 13 out of 48
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Negative: 3 out of 48
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"Due Date" doesn't really have that much of a blast. It wasn't a movie that will blow your brains out with humor, but it will just....delight you.
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