It’s not often that a chance to see a film that is not on general release till the following week comes up, but courtesy of a random email arriving along with another set of mails asking if I pay too much for car insurance, the opportunity did indeed arise late on Friday night, ahead of the Halloween naughty that was to follow the next day.

It’s kind of like having an additional piece of knowledge which you can use against people and feel smug about, though only in the forums known as “pub quizzes” and also handy for writing occasional film reviews on a lowly blog site.

I’d better get onto the main subject of today’s review before it goes past its Due Date (see what I did there, har har har etc…..I live alone.)

There are two main characters we pretend to care about in this story of woe across the wonderful Disneyland of America, Robert Downey baby, who has enjoyed a great deal of deserved success since his comeback from being on the single female lawyer show, Ally Mcbeal, and a bloke with accompanying beard called Zach Galifianakis, who we last saw as a bloke with accompanying beard in the film The Hangover, in which various drunks tried to replay what happened during a night out in Vegas after loosing the groom.

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