Daddy Day Camp
By Ed Hulse -- Video Business, 1/14/2008
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> Lowbrow comedy will pass muster with kids but bore their parents stiff.
Yet another embarrassment for Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr., this sequel to Daddy Day Care aims lower than its predecessor but just barely hits the mark it has set for itself. Gooding is back as hapless Charlie Hinton (the role Eddie Murphy played in the first one), who buys a dilapidated summer camp rather than sending his two sons to one run efficiently by a childhood rival (Lochlyn Munro). A predictable progression of lowest-common-denominator gags—many of them involving bodily functions—ensues.
Shelf Talk: The latest in a long line of silly summer camp/vacation movies—including Meatballs, Camp Nowhere, Wet Hot American Summer, Cheaper By the Dozen 2 and Happy Campers, to name just a few—Daddy Day Camp filches characters and situations from earlier movies and recycles them shamelessly. You can market Camp to fans who liked the original Daddy Day Care, which grossed $100 million at the box office and was a stalwart on the new release shelf, as well as those who find humor in misfit kids training to compete against better-disciplined peers at a rival camp.
Comedy, color, PG (mild language, crude humor), 89 min., DVD $28.95, BD $38.96
Extras: featurette, interactive quiz
Director: Fred Savage
First Run: W, Aug. 2007, $13.2 mil.