Theater Whore: Due Date

I watched Due Date and laughed my ass off. I have been hearing a lot of people talking trash about this film and I don’t appreciate it. It was funny, damn you. It’s from the same guy (Todd Phillips) who directed The Hangover (which I hated) and Old School (which I loved). So this seems to be the film that is drawing a line in the sand apparently.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes, Tropic Thunder) as a guy who is trying to get home to see his wife give birth for the very first time. But there’s a problem. It starts with a car door being knocked off and ends with him on a no fly list. The cause of most of the drama in this film is Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover, Dinner For Schmucks). Knowing that they are both heading to Los Angeles Downey decides to ride with this mad man. Now he isn’t mad in a crazy sense, but he is fucking loony. Oh, and he has his little dog and his fathers ashes in a coffee cup.

After watching Zach masturbate to go to sleep in the car, being assaulted by a paraplegic, and getting involved in an accident that cracks three ribs and breaks his arm he gets a lift from an old friend played by Jamie Foxx. Foxx is asking a lot of questions about the baby and wife of Downey who he apparently dated in college and hung out with around the time the baby was conceived. Hmm. Then they drink the fathers ashes because they think its coffee.

Will he make it back in time to see the birth of his child? What do you think? This movie has a bunch of funny moments but I feel terrible that the thing that made me laugh the hardest was when Downey spit in the face of the little dog. Oh, and when Downey punches a child in the stomach. I laughed way too hard at that scene.

This movie has a bunch of folks in it. Juliette Lewis, RZA, Danny McBride, and Michelle Monaghan. This film made me laugh so many times even though the premise is very basic and has been done many times. But something about Downey being a part of it makes it so much more funny. You all should definitely check it out.