Due Date
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 5, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
20
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfDec 15, 2010
Phillips goes too far sometimes (border-jail breakout?), but his new direction is promising. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDec 15, 2010
The situations sometimes feel contrived, but the characters never do, particularly because Galifianakis remains simultaneously charming and unrelentingly irritating. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 15, 2010
It'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. Read full review
75
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreDec 15, 2010
Shockingly, it's funny. Often in shocking or at least wildly inappropriate ways. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 15, 2010
So 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. Read full review
70
NPRScott TobiasDec 15, 2010
Their friendship in Due Date is hard-won, and the audience is right there with them. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 15, 2010
It's a nice pairing of singular personalities deserving better material, or a shorter leash on the improv. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 15, 2010
In 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. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDec 15, 2010
And 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. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigDec 15, 2010
More a matter of chemistry than deadlines. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayDec 15, 2010
Due 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. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonDec 15, 2010
Pregnant with possibility; it's the delivery that disappoints. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyDec 15, 2010
I winced more than laughed at this movie, which has almost as many broken bones as punch lines. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 15, 2010
Recipe 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. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDec 15, 2010
So the movie probably contains enough laughs to satisfy the weekend audience. Where it falls short is in the characters and relationships. Read full review
60
Village VoiceKarina LongworthDec 15, 2010
Fast, lazy, and out of control in a manner that's basically commendable. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 15, 2010
Equal parts appealing and appalling innocence, with a spark of anarchic menace, Mr. Galifianakis is good enough to make you almost forget the movie.
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDec 15, 2010
Due 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. Read full review
55
MovielineStephanie ZacharekDec 15, 2010
A massive wedgie of a comedy, which is to say it's a comedy of extreme discomfort. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenDec 15, 2010
Manic with an itch. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDec 15, 2010
Todd 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. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyDec 15, 2010
This is a disappointing turn coming from Phillips, particularly since "The Hangover" was such a fresh, bracing brew of black comic fun. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezDec 15, 2010
The actors are fine: It's their long, arduous trek that lets the movie down. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 15, 2010
Like the direction, the script veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. RussellDec 15, 2010
Still, 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. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 15, 2010
Not without humor, but it lacks the explosive spontaneity of "The Hangover." Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirDec 15, 2010
An 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. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisDec 15, 2010
A rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyDec 15, 2010
Not 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." Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDec 15, 2010
It's slobby, goony, and gross, also occasionally funny, but not occasionally enough. Read full review
40
TimeMary PolsDec 15, 2010
This 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. Read full review
40
The New YorkerAnthony LaneDec 15, 2010
It'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. Read full review
40
SlateDana StevensDec 15, 2010
The most offensive bodily fluid being hurled around in Due Date are the tears that Phillips dishonestly tries to wrest from the audience's eyes. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesDec 15, 2010
This 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. Read full review
40
EmpireAngie ErrigoDec 15, 2010
Another "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. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithDec 15, 2010
not so much a movie as an "act," one that belongs at a club called Shenanigans or maybe Chuckleheads. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 15, 2010
The pathos really are shameless, arriving with killing regularity and false humility. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 15, 2010
The 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. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 15, 2010
The comedy never really takes off because it's phony. Read full review
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