If your idea of fun is an hour and a half surrounded by screaming, whining, vomiting children, then this may be your movie.
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.
A generic time-waster powered by a lazy, cynical combination of scatological kiddie humor and maudlin sentiment.
Never work with children or animals. Unless you're a child or an animal, in which case, never work with Cuba Gooding Jnr.
A lot of wet stuff flies toward the screen and there are many, many intended-to-be-hilarious gags (in both senses of the word) about things that smell bad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This kinder and gentler sequel features the main characters from Daddy Day Care but with a different cast.
Parents! Hire a bouncy castle. Put on clown paint and make balloon animals. You need not see this.
The worst kind of sequel. No original stars or director, just a cobbled-together script by one of the writers of Daddy Day Care. There should have been a big red flag when Eddie Murphy declined to appear.
Owes more to the third or fourth sequel to Meatballs and other character-building summer-camp comedies than it does to Daddy Day Care, with neither director Fred Savage or the writers inclined to come up with a single original idea.
Poison ivy jokes. Poop jokes. Runaway bus jokes. Young love jokes. Skunk jokes. Some fake fatherly tender moments. Vomit jokes. This film has them all.
A lazy, juvenile, starkly unfunny and consistently unrelatable family film.
It's all obtusely broad and ridiculous, and the dreaded 'life lessons' drag it out interminably.
The film doesn't need a heartfelt detour, especially any creation that contains a revenge scenario involving a urine-filled water balloon, and it disappoints me that the production didn't have the guts to assemble a more relaxed summer camp farce.
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