Daddy Day Camp

Theatrical Release Date: 2007 08 08 (USA)

UPC: 043396199279

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Scatological Humor, Slapstick Violence]

Summary: Directed by one-time child star Fred Savage, Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care, stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae as Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson, a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp afloat even though they are under dire economic strain. In order to help improve the financial situation, and to whip together a group of children who have a problem with following orders, Hinton brings in his military-trained father (Richard Gant), even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the fathers, are involved in a series of adventures that will make the camp solvent, and help mend broken relationships. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: How I spent my summer: making Daddy Day Camp
What I learned at camp: interactive quiz

Daddy Day Camp

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 01/29/2008

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 89 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Derek Armstrong

If you're Cuba Gooding Jr., you have to live with critics dismissing your every career move as a gauge of how far you've fallen since Jerry Maguire. Daddy Day Camp is the consummate example of that ongoing downward trend. But Gooding isn't the problem with this limp sequel to the slightly less limp Daddy Day Care. He's not much of a downgrade from Eddie Murphy, and he's plenty lively and charming. The problem is just about everything else, from Gooding's co-stars on down to the writing and the directing. As Phil, Gooding's partner in the day camp venture, Paul Rae defines the term "lifeless." He may look like a slightly thinner John Goodman, but he hasn't an ounce of Goodman's presence; he even comes up short on the low bar set by Jeff Garlin, who played his role in the original. And where the supporting roles in the first film were classed up by the likes of Anjelica Huston and Steve Zahn, it's "household names" Lochlyn Munro and Joshua McLerran filling the same plot function here. But the biggest disappointment may be Wonder Years star Fred Savage, who could have been a deceptively smart choice as director. Instead, Savage wildly over-directs an endless succession of pratfalls and potty humor. (What's more, it can't be a coincidence that there's a romantic subplot in which the boy camper resembles a stammering Kevin Arnold, and the girl camper resembles a hair-tossing Winnie Cooper.) Daddy Day Camp relies on the cluelessness of the dads for laughs, but that doesn't work, because we know they've already set up a highly successful day care. It's also problematic that the primary conflict doesn't have anything to do with the children, but rather, with Gooding's Charlie Hinton getting out of the shadow of his military dad (Richard Gant). ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: John Davis  Executive Producer 
Fred Savage  Director 
Jef Richard  Executive Producer 
David N. Weiss  Screenwriter 
J. David Stem  Screenwriter 
Richard Hull  Executive Producer 
Matt Berenson  Executive Producer 
Nancy Kirhoffer  Executive Producer 
Derek Dauchy  Executive Producer 
Jim Dooley  Composer (Music Score) 
Geoff Rodkey  Screenwriter 
William Sherak  Producer 
Jason Shuman  Producer 
Chris Emerson  Executive Producer 
Chris Ermerson  Executive Producer 
Geoff Rookey  Screenwriter 
Cuba Gooding, Jr.  Actor 
Lochlyn Munro  Actor 
Richard Gant  Actor 
Tamala Jones  Actor 
Paul Rae  Actor 
Joshua McLerran  Actor 
Spencir Bridges  Actor 
Brian Doyle-Murray  Actor 

Country: USA