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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.

Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 21

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

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Movie Info

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

PG, 1 hr. 25 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Fred Savage

Written By: Geoff Rodkey, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss

In Theaters: Aug 8, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Jan 29, 2008

Box Office:$13.2M

Sony Pictures

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Cast

Cuba Gooding Jr.
Charlie Hinton
Lochlyn Munro
Lance Warner
Richard Gant
Col. Buck Hinton
Tamala Jones
Kim Hinton
Paul Rae
Phil Ryerson
Joshua McLerran
Dale
Spencir Bridges
Ben Hinton
Brian Doyle-Murray
Uncle Morty

Critic Reviews for Daddy Day Camp

All Critics (78) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (81) | DVD (14)

Just horrible.

August 14, 2007 Comment

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

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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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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

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Gregory Kirschling

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The acting is atrocious and more obvious than you see in many high school or college productions. The jokes are stale. The storyline is so predictable, I'll bet nearly everyone in the theater will guess what happens next.

August 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Bill Zwecker

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Daddy Day Camp is a recruiting poster for kids, insisting that there's no domestic problem that military values can't solve.

August 8, 2007 Comment

Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

Top Critic

About as much fun as being given a wedgie and hung from the camp flagpole.

August 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

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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

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

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

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Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

Daddy Day Camp is a film forged directly out of a seven year old's favorite joke book.

February 10, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Bill Gibron

DVDTalk.com

An utterly predictable, unfunny, infantile test of patience and waste of ninety minutes of my life I can never get back. Show me the exit!

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander

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Kam Williams

Mount Desert Islander

Extras on the disc include a 'making of' featurette and a quick on 'what I learned at camp.' Not to bother with a movie this awful, perhaps?

January 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Would it have hurt these guys to even remotely consider logic, or to try for a joke that wasn't crude or obvious?

January 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

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

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Forgettable camp comedy is fine for kiddie laughs.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Sandie Angulo Chen

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

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Tim Robey

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

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Robert Hanks

Independent

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

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

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Cath Clarke

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

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Jamie Russell

BBC

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film

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James White

Total Film

Daddy D-Day for Cuba's career.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Sky Movies

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Rob Daniel

Sky Movies

Worse than you can possibly imagine - no, really!

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Alan Morrison

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

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

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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

September 19, 2011

Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

Horrible film, its just plain crap.

February 28, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

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