Due Date Reviews



  • Due Date
    • Genre : Comedy
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 95 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : -
    • Studio : Warner Bros. Pictures
    • Official Site : http://duedatemovie.warnerbros.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
      5 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • Watching Downey's vein-popping discomfiture in the company of Galifianakis is the best and possibly only reason for seeing the film
    2.5 of 4 by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
  • there are some nice moments, but the comedy mostly doesn't come off and there is no double-act chemistry between Downey and Galifianakis
    2 of 5 by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
  • There are scattered funny bits
    1.5 of 4 by Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times ]
  • There are laughs, yes, but the sweetness and soft heart that made the John Candy- Steve Martin Thanksgiving journey all warm and cozy has gone missing
    3.5 of 5 by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]
  • the script -- written by Phillips and three others -- veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination
    2.5 of 5 by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
  • The comic vibe is familiar: slapstick, stoner and gross-out gags
    2.5 of 4 by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
  • Galifianakis and Downey gift Due Date with something rare in any kind of movie: a soul
    2.5 of 4 by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
  • Due Date is a modern change-up on the old screwball comedy formula
    3.5 of 5 by Chris Vognar [Dallas Morning News ]
  • a weird emulsion of comedy and torture porn
    2 of 4 by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
  • a refreshingly mean, mismatched-buddy comedy
    Review rate : B+ by James Verniere [Boston Herald ]
  • "Due Date" starts out on the highway to brilliance, but about halfway through takes a detour into mediocrity
    2.5 of 4 by Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
  • "Due Date" is a rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy
    2 of 4 by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
  • 3.5 of 4 Reviewed by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
  • Review rate : B- Reviewed by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]
  • Reviewed by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]
  • Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

Reader's Reviews

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