Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming
buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.
Not exact matches
A
buddy -
comedy wrapped in a British Columbia
road trip, Suck It Up figures out how to find the humor in emotionally distressing situations that might elude any less determined characters than the film's two protagonists.
He's right, of course; it's just that most animated movies that aren't made by Bird's compatriots at Pixar aim for that broad, middle - of - the -
road buddy comedy bulls - eye.
So, before on can say «
road trip», we get one of the oldest staples of cinematic
comedy — the traveling miss - matched
buddy comedy.
No doubt
comedies with
road trip elements are becoming second nature to Phillips, who is calling the flick «a
buddy comedy without the
buddies».
David Gordon Green's «Prince Avalanche» is a wayward
buddy comedy starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two highway
road workers.
It's time to voice your opinion on Todd Phillips» Due Date, the new
road trip
buddy comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, with a fantastic supporting cast including Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx and Danny McBride.
Synopsis: Two British
buddies (Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) head out on the
road in search of Area 51 after attending a comic convention, only to encounter a cute little alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) along the way in this
comedy from Working Title and Universal Pictures.
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline:
Buddies Travel Back to the «80s in Raunchy
Road Comedy If the ostensible objective of each generation of raunchy road comedies is to up the ante in terms of debauchery, then Hot Tub Time Machine definitely deserves to be given its due, since this relentlessly - vulgar exercise in depravity easily outdoes many of the earlier examples of the shock ge
Road Comedy If the ostensible objective of each generation of raunchy
road comedies is to up the ante in terms of debauchery, then Hot Tub Time Machine definitely deserves to be given its due, since this relentlessly - vulgar exercise in depravity easily outdoes many of the earlier examples of the shock ge
road comedies is to up the ante in terms of debauchery, then Hot Tub Time Machine definitely deserves to be given its due, since this relentlessly - vulgar exercise in depravity easily outdoes many of the earlier examples of the shock genre.
A unique documentary style keeps it from being a typical
road trip
buddy comedy.
Search Party (R for drug use, sexuality, graphic nudity and pervasive profanity)
Road comedy about the
buddies (T.J. Miller and Adam Pally) of a jilted groom's (Thomas Middleditch) attempt to help him find the bride (Shannon Woodward) after she leaves for their Mexican honeymoon without him.
While delightfully contemporary, Tangerine throws back to
road movies and
buddy comedy.
The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run
road movie, the
buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.
Per the standards long established in the
road trip
buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.
A
road - trip
buddy comedy in which Jason Mantzoukas gets to go full manic Mantzoukas opposite an uptight straight man (Grand Budapest Hotel's Tony Revolori) for 90 minutes?
Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched
buddy road - trip
comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.
Puiu's darkly funny take on the American
road movie is both low - key
buddy comedy and a sharp critique of life in Romania at the dawn of the 21st century.
Tommy Boy «s star - studded cast affords it a great deal more laughs than one might expect out of the standard
road - trip /
buddy -
comedy — a package taken straight from the assembly line and built out of
comedy scraps that have come before it; however, Peter Segal makes great use of his talented leads.
Search Party (R for drug use, sexuality, graphic nudity and pervasive profanity)
Road comedy about two
buddies» (T.J. Miller and Adam Pally) who come to the rescue of a just - dumped groom - to - be (Thomas Middleditch) left naked in the middle of the Mexican desert.
But as you can imagine, a series of unexpected occurrences and misadventures spice things up, turning a potentially straightforward trip into an on - the -
road buddy comedy where the bound - for - bonding odd couple are father and daughter.
Dirty Grandpa (R for profanity, drug use, frontal nudity and pervasive crude humor and sexual content) Robert De Niro plays the title character in this unlikely -
buddies comedy about a retired Army general who embarks on a raunchy
road trip to Florida with his grandson (Zac Efron) for Spring Break.
Philomena is a
road movie, a mystery, a
buddy comedy and a tragedy which excels in every manner.
Thompson's most celebrated work and genre - defining masterpiece is at once a psychedelic
road trip
buddy comedy and a hedonistic 1970s reevaluation of the American Dream.