Due Date

14Nov10

Here’s a film where the spoiler does indeed spoil the film (insert sad face).

In my opinion, the trailer for Due Date shows just about 90% of the funny bits of the film. Don’t get me wrong, there are some very good clips in the film that aren’t shown in the trailer, but the trailer does pretty much show the gist of the film … not much else really happens.

Basically, Mr.Downey Jr is trying to make it back to see his newborn, but in the typical movie way ends up getting delayed/things don’t go to plan … sort of thing … all due to Mr. Galifianakis’ ‘friendliness’. From the minute they meet, most things that could go wrong generally do go wrong (most of which, any average person would see coming and just not put up with).
Keeping with the typical movie theme, the pair end up not being able to survive without each other and generally become best friends (with the odd hiccup here and there).

Before seeing the film, I heard that Mr.Downey Jr had a lot of fun making this film. This (along with watching the trailer) made me want to watch the film even more. Unfortunately I didn’t find it as good as I thought it would be. I thought it might be non-stop wall to wall laughs, with the occasional serious moment (there is a baby about to be born remember), but only really seemed to find the trailer featured bits funny, and even then it wasn’t THAT funny as I’d seen the trailer on just about every form of media out there.

I wouldn’t say the film is terrible, but I think if the trailer had more of the story and less funny bits, then I would of found the comedy moments more comedy-like. Not really a film I’d rush out to buy.

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