 Due Date 
 
 'Due Date' review: Robert Downey Jr. looks uncomfortable as Zach Galifianakis makes the best of it 
 
 Warner Bros 'Due Date' stars Zach Galifianakis (l.) as Ethan Tremblay and Robert Downey Jr. as Peter Highman. What matters is that Peter meets Ethan Tremblay (Galifianakis), a wanna-be actor and full-fledged pain in the ass who gets them kicked off a jet and sharing a car to L.A. The director Todd Phillips, who scored big last year with “The Hangover,” isn’t saying in “Due Date” that it’s O.K. In “Due Date” the missus (Michelle Monaghan, purely decorative), who’s married to Peter and pregnant (I didn’t notice if she was barefoot), is understandably eager for him to return for the Caesarean delivery of their first child.
– Is Due Date this year’s Hangover? Not really, the critics say; it’s more “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the road rage generation,” writes Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. Reviews are mixed, with only 40% of critics liking it but 75% of fans approving at Rotten Tomatoes: It’s a “recipe for nutso fun,” writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. “gift Due Date with something rare in any kind of movie: a soul.” Due Date is “kind of like the Odyssey, but with masturbation jokes and vomit,” notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. She’s not particularly impressed, but “Galifianakis is good enough to make you almost forget the movie.” Weitzman disagrees, calling Galifianakis’ character “obscenely irritating” in her Daily News review. “Like the direction, the script veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination.”