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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.

Rated: PG

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Childrens

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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Daddy Day Camp suffers all the near-classic sequel handicaps.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/03/07
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
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Forgettable camp comedy is fine for kiddie laughs.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
10/31/07
Sandie Angulo Chen
Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media

Daddy Day Camp should just limp off to the nurse's tent and call it quits.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
08/08/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

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.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/08/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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If you like your outhouse humor explosive then this 'Camp's for you!

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
08/18/07
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
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Criminally lazy follow-up to the syrupy family comedy Daddy Day Care.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/19/07
Cath Clarke
Cath Clarke
Guardian [UK]

Whatever happened to Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career?

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
08/29/07
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment 2 Comments
08/08/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/08/07
Will Crain
Will Crain
San Francisco Chronicle
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Daddy D-Day for Cuba’s career.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
10/19/07
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

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.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
08/19/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Daddy Day Camp is a perfect family film for the blind and deaf.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
08/12/07
Michael Ferraro
Michael Ferraro
Film Threat

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/08/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's all obtusely broad and ridiculous, and the dreaded 'life lessons' drag it out interminably.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
08/08/07
Dezhda Gaubert
Dezhda Gaubert
E! Online

The minstrelsy of Gooding Jr.'s performance is abhorrent but no more offensive than the showboating that won him the Oscar.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/07
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

At least it will not suck anybody's will to live.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
08/10/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Reel.com

Its humor derives from the campers' toilet and digestive tract malfunctions - truly tedious, except, perhaps, for matinee moppets with indulgent parents.

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
08/08/07
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
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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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/10/07
Chad Greene
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
08/09/07
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/09/07
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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