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Daddy Day Camp (2007)

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Average Rating: 2.3/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 76

Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of gags but no laughs.

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Average Rating: 2.3/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 26

Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of gags but no laughs.

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Directed by one-time child star Fred Savage, Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care, stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae as Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson, a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp afloat even though they are under dire economic strain. In order to help improve the financial situation, and to whip together a group of children who have a problem with following orders, Hinton brings in his military-trained father (Richard Gant), even though he

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Comedy

Geoff Rodkey, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss

Jan 29, 2008

$13.2M

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All Critics (77) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (76) | DVD (13)

Even the film stock's colour tint looks cheap and nasty. Don't say we didn't warn you.

November 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Just horrible.

August 14, 2007
Ebert & Roeper
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The juvenile actors come off as movie brats, and the pacing is slowed by treacly speeches about father-son bonding. As a child star on The Wonder Years, director Fred Savage worked with some of TV's best, but you'd never guess it from this.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Because he's an Oscar winner with a rep now for headlining turkeys, watching Cuba Gooding Jr. in trash like Daddy Day Camp almost hurts.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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One of the most inept movies a Hollywood studio has ever unleashed.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Much time is spent waiting for a methane-filled toilet to explode, an incident that only begins to approximate the visceral experience of watching this movie.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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Daddy Day Camp truly is a horrific mess. It's not really a movie for kids; it's a movie for kids by adults who don't have the slightest idea what makes a quality film for any audience ... puerile doesn't even begin to do it justice.

March 18, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

It all comes down to the "Olympiad," a battle of idiotic proportions between the two camps, and if you can't guess what happens next, this just may be the movie for you.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix
Boston Phoenix

While the actors in Daddy Day Camp may be different, the tired and predictable storyline full of jokes involving urinating, flatulence, burping, vomiting and crotch shots remains the same.

July 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times

I can't think of a single kind word to say about this unfortunate family comedy which is unoriginal, predictable, schmaltzy and bland.

November 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Forgettable camp comedy is fine for kiddie laughs.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Parents! Hire a bouncy castle. Put on clown paint and make balloon animals. You need not see this.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

An unnecessary and unlovable sequel to the Eddie Murphy vehicle Daddy Day Care, though this time the producers have traded down to Cuba Gooding Jr. Not recommended.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent

Criminally lazy follow-up to the syrupy family comedy Daddy Day Care.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Never work with children or animals. Unless you're a child or an animal, in which case, never work with Cuba Gooding Jnr.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC

Follow US audiences' lead - pitch your cinematic tent elsewhere.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

Daddy D-Day for Cuba's career.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Sky Movies
Sky Movies

Worse than you can possibly imagine - no, really!

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

Desperately unfunny, badly written sequel that's essentially a mish-mash of tired cliches, fart gags and genuinely terrible performances. One to avoid.

October 18, 2007 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

Whatever happened to Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career?

August 29, 2007 Full Review
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Watching children act, when it's bad, is on par with having a tooth pulled; and suffice it to say, the adult acting is not much better.

August 22, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies
IGN Movies

If your idea of fun is an hour and a half surrounded by screaming, whining, vomiting children, then this may be your movie.

August 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

While Danica McKellar is busy extolling the virtues of mathematics to young females of America, her erstwhile leading man Fred Savage can be found toiling for a far less noble cause.

August 19, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

If you like your outhouse humor explosive then this 'Camp's for you!

August 18, 2007 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews
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...original stars Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin have wisely chosen to be absent this time around.

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

Audience Reviews for Daddy Day Camp

Whoa, whoa, whoa, there. These kids need a huge time-out from this huge rip-off of DADDY DAY CARE, which wasn't a good movie in the first place. Yep, that's right, I said it: "rip-off", not "sequel". Eddie Murphy, whose comedies are usually stupid, was too smart for this (ummmmmm) "comedy" (?), so they replaced him haphazardly with Cuba Gooding, Jr.--another pretty bad actor. And really, all the jokes are unoriginal: they're just taken from DADDY DAY CARE. And really, they're not even funny. Go waste your time with this one, a movie that was too bad to be released for even a "special viewing" in a run-down shack of a theater; and instead put as a direct-to-video release. I don't care. Have fun watching--actually, you won't. I'm 110% sure. And I'm 75% sure you'll be so grossed-out that you'll vomit in your popcorn.
September 19, 2011
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Horrible film, its just plain crap.
February 28, 2011
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