Daddy Day Camp (2007)

User Rating:

2.4/10   

Director:

Fred Savage

Writers (WGA):

Geoff Rodkey (screenplay) and
J. David Stem (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

8 August 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family

Tagline:

The summer is going to be in tents.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Toilet | Critically Bashed | Vomit | Competition | Grandfather Grandson Relationship

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Cuba Gooding Jr.	...	Charlie Hinton
Lochlyn Munro	...	Lance
Richard Gant	...	Buck
Tamala Jones	...	Kim Hinton
Paul Rae	...	Phil
Josh McLerran	...	Dale (as Joshua McLerran)
Spencir Bridges	...	Ben
Brian Doyle-Murray	...	Uncle Morty
Dallin Boyce	...	Max
Telise Galanis	...	Juliette
Taggart Hurtubise	...	Carl
Molly Jepson	...	Becca
Tad D'Agostino	...	Robert
Tyger Rawlings	...	Billy
Talon G. Ackerman	...	Jack (as Talon Ackerman)

Runtime:

89 min | USA:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

UK:PG | Ireland:PG | Germany:o.Al. | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-3 | Australia:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Park City, Utah, USA

Company:

Blue Star Pictures

Trivia:

Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title 'A Winning Group'

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the children talks to a girl about World of Warcraft. He said he was a level 40 Blood Elf Druid. There's no such thing. Only taurens and night elves can be druids.

Quotes:

Charlie Hinton: Okay, this is it. Time to give 'em a summer they'll never forget.
[bus crashes into cabin]
Phil: They won't forget that.

Movie Connections:

References Commando (1985)

Soundtrack:

I Want You Back

It's Not One Of The Worst 100 - But It Is Bad!

OK - it's a bad movie. No argument about that. The story had some potential mind you - the guys from "Daddy Day Care" branching out into running a day camp - but it was poorly put together, had absolutely no flow (especially for the first half hour or so) and featured a type of humour that might be best described as juvenile (except that might be insulting to juveniles, so let's call it pre-juvenile) with jokes that revolved largely around burping and farting and various and sundry other bodily functions. It also featured a lame competition between Camp Driftwood (the Daddy Camp) and a rival camp run by an obnoxious (so obnoxious in fact as to be totally unbelievable) director, played rather pathetically by Lochlyn Munro. I knew this would be slagged pretty hard because of virtually all the main characters from "Daddy Day Care" being recast, but - not having seen the original - I'm in a position to look at Cuba Gooding Jr.'s performance without the face of Eddie Murphy looking over my shoulder. In all fairness, Gooding wasn't bad as Charlie Hinton - he just got suckered into starring in a really bad movie. Having said all that, this movie doesn't really deserve to be ranked in the worst 100 films OF ALL TIME. There are a lot of movies worse than this (one scene actually made me smile, and I've sat through a lot of "comedies" that didn't even get that much response.) So, it's not one of the worst 100, but it is pretty bad. 1/10