Movie Review: Due Date

Travel movies, better known as road trip movies, are movies that include people traveling from one destination to another in order to make it to a certain event or reach a certain goal, but are these movies successful? There was The Book of Eli, which was a fairly good movie, a second would be Are We There Yet, a funny, yet stupid movie, there was also Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a movie that fails to reach almost everything needed to be a good movie, so based on these three examples, it's hard to judge if road trip movies are generally good or bad based, so I think the decision should be left to whether 'Due Date' was a good or bad movie.

Due Date has a fairly simple, but funny plot, it's about an uptight architect named Peter Highman, who gets on the no-fly list of an airline, so he travels with travels with an idiotic actor wannabe named Ethan Chase, in order to get to LA in time to see the birth of his child, but the chances of that happening decreases, due to Ethan getting himself and Peter in trouble.

The story is very entertaining, because it has something that movies did not have for a long time, which is having two characters who are the complete opposite of each other, which resulted to the main characters of this movie getting into allot of hilarious situations, such as Ethan accidentally shooting Peter on the leg, Ethan crashing on the car door which trying to help Peter after shooting him on the leg, Ethan constantly asking Peter questions, and at one point questions about his wife, if there was a possibility that she cheated on him, and fusing that question with going to the Zoo, Ethan getting him and Peter in trouble in the border of Mexico, and allot more hilarious situations.

Other than being very funny, the movie showed allot of emotion towards Peter and Ethan, because while knowing Ethan screws up allot, people feel bad for him, and it's kind of heartwarming that Peter always finds a way to forgive him no matter what he does, also the fact that Ethan is dedicated to his promise that no matter how much of an idiot he is, and no matter how mean Peter is to him, shows that he is a better friend then allot of people in this world.

The movie did have some very minor setbacks, such as the fact that some jokes where repeated two or three times, some predictable jokes, and some jokes that where seen in other movies, but other than those minor twitches there is really nothing to worry about.

Due Date was a movie that I would recommend to anyone, it does have some small errors, but at the same time it has allot of things that are expected in a road trip movie, whether it's a good story, great character and acting performances, allot of great jokes, some heavily driven emotion, a little action, and a few great sights to see, so basically what I'm trying to say is that Due Date has a rare feeling that can make a person laugh and at the same time feel bad about something, which is a very rare feeling to have in a comedy, and the main reason on why this movie is entertaining.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 6
-Story(out of 8)= 7

-Plot(out of 8)= 6

-Actions(out of 6)= 5 

-Effects(out of 4)= 4

-Character Developement(out of 8)= 8 

*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 36

5 Stars

*Rating System:

0-7= 0 Stars

8-14= 1 Star

15-21= 2 Stars

22-30= 3 Stars

30-35= 4 Stars
36-40= 5 Stars