DUE DATE

Road trip

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Robert Downey Jr.: architect Peter Highman
Michelle Monaghan: his wife Sarah
Zach Galifianakis: struggling actor Ethan Tremblay
and others no doubt

REVIEW
Right from the get-go it is pretty dull, contrived and seems to drag on forever. Desperate to inject some sort of humour in it, the producers rely upon getting laughs from such things as a man “pleasing himself” (and to garner even more laughs, his dog does it too). At that point I had seen enough so I walked out.

CLASSIFICATION
for language, drug use and sexual content.

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
• Peter tells Ethan they’ll have to put in “16 to 18 hour days for three maybe four days of driving” to reach Los Angeles from Atlanta. According to MapQuest the distance is 2,176 miles and the driving time required is 32 hours not 48 to 72 hours as estimated by Peter.
• He’s also off when he says it will take 8 hours to drive from Phoenix to LA: it is only 380 miles and can easily be done in less than 6 hours.