Daddy Day Care (2003)
Directed by Steve Carr
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
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James co-wrote it with "King of Queens" producer/writer Nick Bakay, then handed the directorial reins to Steve Carr, whose previous PG comedies, which include "Daddy Day Care," "Rebound," and "Are We Done Yet?," should not have inspired confidence.
Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care) directs the story of Paul Blart (James), an overweight, hypoglycaemic shopping mall security officer who has aspirations of becoming a New Jersey cop.
If this weren't a major studio movie from a high successfully production company, with a hit sitcom's star and a director of $100 million hits (Eddie Murphy's Dr. Dolittle 2 and Daddy Day Care) plus a low-budget major-moneymaker (Next Friday), I might have used more judicious language.
Director Steve Carr, an old hand with flavorless family films (“Daddy Day Care,” “Are We Done Yet?”), backs James with curious moments of roughhouse stunt work.
The genial James has an appealing everyman quality, but the movie, written by James and his "King of Queens" writing partner Nick Bakay and directed by journeyman Steve Carr ("Daddy Day Care"), too often settles for easy, lazy jokes, most of which revolve around either food or running into stuff.
Even more problematic is the direction by Steve Carr (Next Friday, Daddy Day Care, Dr. Dolittle 2), a typically reliable comedy helmer who, here, seems entirely out of his depth in staging the action sequences.
They are joined by the solid, emotionally available Adelaide Kane, making her major film debut as Zoey, and Max Burkholder (2003's " Daddy Day Care "), a tad too closed-off to closely identify with as Charlie.
Filling in for Eddie Murphy in a septically humored kiddie sequel to Daddy Day Care, Gooding gives a mug-job performance that consists mainly of reacting (again and again) to nasty smells.
If you’ve chosen to watch “Daddy Day Camp,” I assume it is because you are a fan of two things: “Daddy Day Care,” the 2003 film to which it is a sequel; and bodily functions.
Good news: "Daddy Day Camp," the unexpected sequel to 2003's barely watchable comedy "Daddy Day Care," is superior to its inspiration in one very significant way.
The follow-up to the 2003 Eddie Murphy vehicle "Daddy Day Care" – in which, notably, not a single original cast member returns – "Daddy Day Camp" finds Cuba Gooding Jr. taking over the role of Charlie Hinton, a modern Mr. Mom who, upon finding himself suddenly unemployed, created his own ultimately successful home-based day care.
Taking them to see "Daddy Day Camp," for example, a follow-up to 2003�eTMs sweet and funny "Daddy Day Care," which starred Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin as a couple of downsized corporate types who start a successful home-based daycare center much to the chagrin of their snooty rival (played by Anjelica Huston), who heads up the prestigious Chapman Academy.
If they'd rented "Kindergarten Cop", they'd know the answer to that question.
Working from the same premise that fueled the likes of "Kindergarten Cop" and "Mr.
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Notable in small, supporting roles are Beth Grant ("Donnie Darko") as a beauty pageant martinet, Wallace Langham ("Daddy Day Care") as her opposite assistant and Mary Lynn Rajskub ("Firewall," TV's "24") as a thoroughly amused pageant wrangler.