Daddy Day Camp suffers all the near-classic sequel handicaps.
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:1
Rotten:72
Average Rating:2.4/10
Consensus: Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of gags but no laughs.
Theatrical Release:Aug 8, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $13,155,823
Synopsis: Fred Savage makes his feature-film directorial debut in this sequel to DADDY DAY CARE. Charlie Hinton (Cuba Gooding,Jr.) and Phil Ryerson (Paul Rae) decide to parlay the success of their "Daddy Day... Fred Savage makes his feature-film directorial debut in this sequel to DADDY DAY CARE. Charlie Hinton (Cuba Gooding,Jr.) and Phil Ryerson (Paul Rae) decide to parlay the success of their "Daddy Day Care" into day camps in order to save Camp Driftwood. Once the crème de la crème of camps, Driftwood has seen better days, while rival Camp Canola has become a hot property featuring paint ball, dirt bikes, and jet skis. Charlie and Phil buy the camp in order to save it, only to find themselves completely out of their element, which becomes painfully obvious on the first day of camp. With foreclosure impending, Charlie swallows his pride and calls in the ultimate reinforcement: his father, Colonel Buck Hinton (Richard Gant). Of course, Buck and his son have completely different child-rearing styles, leading to some tension as the elder Hinton tries to whip Driftwood's motley campers into shape for the annual Olympiad with Camp Canola. DADDY DAY CAMP serves up lessons about the importance of teamwork, honesty, believing in yourself, and following your dreams. And the campers are not the only ones who learn important lessons; both Charlie and Buck learn to be better fathers and to appreciate each other despite their differences. Gooding and Rae step into the roles originated by Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin in the first film. Brian Doyle-Murray appears briefly as Uncle Morty, the camp's owner, and Lochlyn Munro is amusing as Charlie's childhood nemesis, Lance Warner. But the real stars of this film are the campers, who are subjected to endless nature walks, bus crashes, and commando raids by Canola campers. Spencir Bridges, son of actor Todd Bridges, plays Charlie's son, Ben. [More]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Lochlyn Munro, Richard Gant, Tamala Jones
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Lochlyn Munro, Richard Gant, Tamala Jones, Paul Rae, Brian Doyle-Murray
Director: Fred Savage
Director: Fred Savage
Screenwriter: Geoff Rodkey, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss
Story: Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Geoff Rodkey
Producer: William Sherak, Jason Shuman, John Davis
Composer: Jim Dooley
Studio: Columbia Tristar
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Reviews for Daddy Day Camp
Daddy Day Camp should just limp off to the nurse's tent and call it quits.
If the movie is relentless low-brow swill, its splattery good cheer makes it hard to hate. Just go in expecting the expected, and maybe bring a tarp.
Criminally lazy follow-up to the syrupy family comedy Daddy Day Care.
Some would argue that kids aren't as jaded as adults, and will enjoy an agonizingly unfunny experience like Daddy Day Camp just fine. Using the same rationale, you could feed them Alpo.
It's a bit sad to see this talented, Oscar-winning actor reduced to taking Murphy's cast-off parts, but Gooding does fine with what the movie gives him.
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.
This terrible sequel to a bad movie was directed by Fred Savage, the now-grown star of The Wonder Years, though there's no evidence of any behind-the-scenes adult supervision.
It's all obtusely broad and ridiculous, and the dreaded 'life lessons' drag it out interminably.
The minstrelsy of Gooding Jr.'s performance is abhorrent but no more offensive than the showboating that won him the Oscar.
Its humor derives from the campers' toilet and digestive tract malfunctions - truly tedious, except, perhaps, for matinee moppets with indulgent parents.
Here’s to hoping that the pint-sized thespians who play those kids -- barely blessed with names, let alone personalities -- don’t mistake the lame lessons of the adults around them on the set of Daddy Day Camp as a master class in comedic acting.
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.
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.
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