Due Date and Planes, Trains and Automobiles

“Due Date & Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”

Due Date & Planes, Trains and Automobiles are basically the same exact movie. I would go as far as saying that Due Date is the present version of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. As I was watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles it reminded me of Due Date in everyway.

In Due Date Peter Highman, played by Robert Downey Jr., is a businessman who is very serious and he is trying to get back home to see the birth of his first child, but he gets kicked off the airplane because Ethan Tremblay ,played by Zach Galifianakis, gets the attention of an air marshall after repeatedly saying bomb. So the two of them begin a cross country trip together to get to Los Angeles before the birth of Peter’s child, but they don’t get through the trip without getting into a couple of situations along the way.

In Planes, Trains and Automobiles Neal Page, played by Steve Martin, goes through the same kind of stressful trip as Peter because he is trying to get home from New York to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Like Peter Highman, Page encounter’s his own troublemaker Del Griffith, who is played by John Candy. Like Due Date they are not able to fly home because a freak snow hit Chicago and won’t allow there plane to land, so they must use every type of transportation they can find along the way in  time for thanksgiving.

In my opinion both movies are so similar but I feel that “Due Date” is the better movie overall. I say that because at least “Due Date” is pretty entertaining as “Planes, Trains and Automobiles gets boring pretty quickly.