Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Average Rating: 2.3/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 76
A mirthless, fairly desperate family film, Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of cheap gags but no laughs.
Average Rating: 2.3/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 27
A mirthless, fairly desperate family film, Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of cheap 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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Cast
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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
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Even the film stock's colour tint looks cheap and nasty. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Top CriticJust horrible.
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.
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.
There's no point being highbrow about a film that relies on the typical fart-puke-nuts-kaboom brand of family comedy, but [director] Savage's lethargic, impersonal approach can't even make Camp's gross-out moments appropriately revolting.
One of the most inept movies a Hollywood studio has ever unleashed.
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.
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.
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.
I can't think of a single kind word to say about this unfortunate family comedy which is unoriginal, predictable, schmaltzy and bland.
Forgettable camp comedy is fine for kiddie laughs.
Parents! Hire a bouncy castle. Put on clown paint and make balloon animals. You need not see this.
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.
Criminally lazy follow-up to the syrupy family comedy Daddy Day Care.
Never work with children or animals. Unless you're a child or an animal, in which case, never work with Cuba Gooding Jnr.
Follow US audiences' lead - pitch your cinematic tent elsewhere.
Daddy D-Day for Cuba's career.
Worse than you can possibly imagine - no, really!
Desperately unfunny, badly written sequel that's essentially a mish-mash of tired cliches, fart gags and genuinely terrible performances. One to avoid.
Whatever happened to Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career?
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.
If your idea of fun is an hour and a half surrounded by screaming, whining, vomiting children, then this may be your movie.
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.
If you like your outhouse humor explosive then this 'Camp's for you!
...original stars Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin have wisely chosen to be absent this time around.
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