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Excellent but underrated film

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to Daddy Day Care (2003) Plot In A Paragraph: Charlie, an ad executive (Murphy) opens up a Day Care Centre after he loses his job.Having put three nails in his career coffin with 3 flops in 2002, Murphy ran back to the kids movies, and again audiences showed up. My problem with this movie is I'm a parent. Under no circumstances would I trust Charlie and co with my children. There is a rival school, ran by Miss Harridan who is so expensive, that Charlie can no longer afford to send his son there. Angelica Huston is the villain of the movie, ruling her school with an iron hand, but you know what? It looks to me like a good school to me, the kids are all advanced for their ages, and well behaved. Whilst Daddy Day Care lets the kids do whatever they want to. Obviously, in the terms of this movie, any school where the kids have to study is bad, just as a school where the kids can run as they please is good. Not in real life with real kids.All that said, I had a peasant time watching it with an 8 year old, who found it very funny.Daddy Day Care grossed $104 million at the domestic box office to end 2003 as the 26th highest grossing movie of the year. It wasn't as profitable as some of his other kid friendly movies, but it did considerably better than his previous 3 movies.

This is just a funny and fun movie. And as one user wrote, the chemistry between all the actors and kid actors really makes the movie. We could use more movies like this. Nothing inappropriate either. It is one of those movies that you come away smiling. It's a feel good movie. I imagine if more people would support these kinds of movies maybe Hollywood would make more. I do wonder if there are more people than we think who secretly enjoy a good wholesome movie. And love Steve Zahn. Eddie Murphy is so good when he keeps it clean. He seems genuinely nice and, of course, love his voice for animated characters.Everyone in the cast really makes this movie charming.

Having already seen the disastrous sequel "Daddy Day Camp" I thought I owed it to myself to see where that came from. Certainly compared to the sequel, this is a masterpiece. Compared to any other movie I've seen it's a pleasant piece of family fun, amusing at times and rather silly most of the time. Eddie Murphy was well cast, I thought, as Charlie Hinton - a marketing exec who loses his job and opens a day care to make ends meet, while his wife goes out to work. This was certainly a different kind of role for Murphy - very family friendly, and he pulled it off well, as did Jeff Garlin as his partner Phil and Steve Zahn as Marvin. The movie contained a couple of ridiculous caricatures, which always turn me off - especially Angelica Huston as the evil pre-school director Mrs. Harridan and Kevin Nealon as Charlie's old boss Bruce, but in fairness the caricatures here were not as over the top as the pathetic ones in "Day Camp," and this movie thankfully avoided for the most part the toilet humour of the sequel. Unlike many movies that feature children in significant roles, there really wasn't a single one who came across as irritating, and there's even an interesting (and I would say accurate) reflection on reverse sexism, as the initial reaction to the "Daddy Day Camp" from parents was that any man who wanted to run a day camp must be - well - not trustworthy. Frankly, I'm surprised this spawned a sequel. It really wasn't that good, but for a movie that you can watch without worrying whether your 5 year old might come into the room while it's on, it's not bad viewing. 6/10

As one would probably assume, this is another cheesy family comedy. Now, I guess movies can be somewhat cheesy and still enjoyable, but if you ask me, that's not the case with this film. I saw a bit of "Daddy Day Care" early in 2004, the year after it came out, but don't recall thinking too much of it. Nearly five years later, I finally decided to rent it the other day and see the whole thing, even though my expectations certainly weren't high. Basically, it turned out to be what I expected, a mostly unfunny PG-rated family film, there were definitely no big surprises.Charlie Hinton and his colleague, Phil, work for the health division of a food company. However, when this division is shut down, they both lose their jobs. After this, both of them are unemployed, with no job opportunities in sight, so they become stay-at-home fathers. However, Charlie soon gets the idea for the two to open their own day care centre called "Daddy Day Care" in his house, and manages to get Phil to agree. While it does turn out to be quite challenging at first, their day care becomes a success. However, as it becomes more popular, the Chapman Academy becomes less popular. The harsh headmistress of that school day care, Mrs. Harridan, is not happy about having new rivals in town, and will do anything she can to try and put an end to Daddy Day Care! The movie begins with Charlie's young son, Ben, starting his day, put to Katrina & The Waves' hit song, "Walking on Sunshine". At one point, the song stops, we hear Ben urinate, and then the song continues. I guess that's supposed to be a gag, but it's a fairly poor one, no doubt about that. Comedic mediocrity continues throughout most of the film, and sometimes, it may get close to annoying. There are some fart jokes (big surprise *sarcasm*), unfunny ones, as usual. There's also a major excretion gag, with a kid at Daddy Day Care telling Charlie how he missed the toilet. Fortunately, at least it doesn't show the huge mess, it just shows Charlie's reaction, looking all over the bathroom in shock. Still, that gag is pretty lame, and if there were many more gags like that in the film, it would probably be below average. It isn't all straight-faced, there are some mildly amusing scenes, such as Marvin (who eventually joins Charlie and Phil) communicating with a kid in Klingon, and maybe times when the Three Stooges are on TV, but there's nothing TOO funny (at least not for adults), certainly not enough to make up for the lameness.I didn't know this movie spawned a 2007 sequel, "Daddy Day Camp", featuring a different cast, with Cuba Gooding Jr. as Charlie Hinton and Paul Rae as Phil, instead of Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin in those roles. "Daddy Day Care" certainly isn't the most popular family comedy ever made, but I see that its sequel is generally considered much worse, so obviously, I do not intend to ever watch it. While this 2003 film isn't exactly terrible, it's obviously more for kids, as you would probably expect with a title like "Daddy Day Care". Some adults MIGHT like to watch it with their kids, but other than that, I don't recommend it for adults. In any case, don't expect anything too surprising or original about this cheesy family movie. It's certainly not the first lacklustre comedy starring Eddie Murphy.