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ScriptShadow has reviewed the March 6, 2009 draft of Due Date by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, giving the situation comedy a mixed assessment.

"It doesn't take long for Due Date to hit some bumps in the road," writes Carson Reeves, the site's owner and chief reviewer. "The biggest bump is that there's nothing here we haven't seen before. Add to that that Due Date is more concerned with hijinx than story and you're looking at one grumpy Carson. As I may have mentioned before, I like a story in my screenplays. Look, I'm all about the lol if you can pull it off. But rooming with your easily insulted sister-in-law isn't exactly Grade-A material. And crashing a college party doesn't ring very high on the original-o-meter. These problems only serve to exaggerate the lack of story. And while there's a decent subplot involving Peter's absent dad, the main storyline of Peter's baby being born isn't threatened until very late in the script."