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Daddy Day Care
2003
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Positive Reviews
15
Negative reviews
19
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2.3
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2.5
The result is a movie that is undistinguished and undistinguishable but not too awful.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Its a concept more than a movie, and its jokes and sight gags seem mostly improvised or dashed off.
Austin Chronicle
1.3
But a premise should be the starting point for a screenplay, not its finish line.
Rogerebert
3.0
Many parents today are enrolling their toddlers in preschool programs designed to insure them a good life on the fast track, which translates as the b ..
Spirituality And Practice
1.9
The movie is clearly aimed at kids, but is this really the kind of stuff we should be filling their brains with
Mark Reviews Movies
1.0
We dont really get official Women As Morons movies any more (Charlies Angels: Full Throttle being an unofficial Women As Morons movie).
The Times
2.5
Once it gets the bodily function jokes out of its system (sorry), it settles into being a fairly agreeable little movie.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Geoff Rodkeys script plays like a failed third rate sitcom, the kind in which the kids are lovable and the father is a dope; plot threads dont match u ..
News Review
2.5
Given the best dialogue and character quirks (even if theyre essentially recycled from other films), Zahn takes the material and makes the most of it, ..
Screen It
3.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:mins Average comedy in which Murphy is prepared to take a back seat to his co stars it has its fair sha ..
View London
2.5
If you cant afford her tuition fees, send your tots to this movie.
Cs Monitor
2.5
The title tells it all, and when you cast Eddie Murphy in that role, you know youve got the attention of the family trade who will have an almost hypo ..
Film Journal
3.1
President Donald Trump bluntly declared on Wednesday his attorney general should terminate right now the federal probe into the campaign that took him ..
Star Tribune
3.5
Not in my book.Kudos to Murphy for standing back and letting fine supporting actors like Huston and Zahn get the most laughs.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.5
Yet Charlie and Phil who surely grew up watching postfeminist, free to be you and me childrens TV master each lesson (Diapers are stinky!
Ew
1.0
The children have no personalities, nothing likable about them, and act simply as caricatures of children.
Cinema Crazed
1.0
Okay, its not exactly Preston Sturges, but on paper its good for a few laughs, surely, especially with reliable second stringers like Steve Zahn and A ..
Empire
3.8
.Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) and his son Ben (Khamani Griffin of Oakland) take it to the hoop in Daddy Day Care.
Sf Gate
2.0
But Charlie finds out the hard way, as his pint sized charges scream, fight, and defecate through a series of lame sight gags and increasingly despera ..
Bbc
2.5
But while the film is charmingly economical, its surprising lack of vulgarity makes for an overall boring sit.
Slant Magazine
2.5
If you attend the movie with your expectations lowered by Murphys recent films, youll be reasonably amused.
Washington Post
3.5
They also cry and scream.And as the movie tends to point out all too often, they smear their diapers, mess up bathrooms and are given to flatulence.
Washington Post
2.5
The problem is, there is no genuine heart or soul to this movie beyond the artificial, pre packaged fluff during the climax, meant to tug at your hear ..
The Movie Boy
2.8
Daddy Day Care, with its amiable rags to riches story, plentiful sight gags and frequent out of the mouths of babes one liners, is going to be a big h ..
Reeling Reviews
1.5
Daddy Day Care and Mr. Mom (review) Trading Places So you think you saw Daddy Day Care 20 years ago, when it was called Mr. Mom
Flickfilosopher
1.9
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
3.1
And although scribe Geoff Rodkeys screenplay is peppered with predictable potty training humor and the obligatory kick in the groin scene it wedges in ..
Hollywood
2.5
Murphy plays it safe if not sane in predictable Daddy Day Care Variety announced recently that Eddie Murphys movie star career is in trouble.After thr ..
Seattle Pi
3.1
Murphys mugging as a laid off dad starting a Day Care center helps overcome kiddie comedys contrived subplots Theres a delightful surprise before the ..
Spliced Wire
3.1
The presence of folks like Zahn and Garlin alone is enough to provide most adults with some entertainment, while the kids will just be happy with the ..
Reel Film
1.9
This is one of the sloppiest, most slapdash comedies in recent memory.
Deseret News
3.5
But a competitor is asking for decreases that could be almost as big.
Kansas City
3.5
Overall, this film is certain lightweight..but, I personally admire a decent family film that doesnt resort to double entendres.
2.0
Unfortunately, the appeal of the movie doesnt go much farther than the concept.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
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Freep
1.9
We want you to be happy!.What if I do a mailing and get returned mail
Movie Eye
1.5
Still, whenever it seems like the film has its heart in the right place, it goes for crude slapstick that just doesnt work.
Mid West Film Journal
2.5
These scenes are so inevitable, you could develop a drinking game around them.
Toledo Blade
3.8
Daddy Day Care review by Elias Savada, 9 May 2003 Mention three year olds wielding a large pair of scissors or motoring about the yard on a riding law ..
Nitrate Online
1.9
The result is a 93 minute exercise in mediocrity, a flat and misguided work that plays as if all of its ideas are scribbled down in crayon on construc ..
Cinema Phile
2.5
The U.S. Attorneys Office in California is fining Wells Fargo more than $2 billion for mortgages it made and sold in the run up to the financial crisi ..
Charlotte
4.0
isnt (Ewen basically hetero Director AnneSophie Birots obvioust Jkllit NIH) a potentially very tired theme: the teen.
The List
4.5
Bottom Line: However, if youre ready for a lighthearted comedy with a darling cast of cute kids, a funny buddy duo and great kid friendly entertainmen ..
Cross Walk
0.5
My advice is to beat your children rather than take them to Daddy Day Care.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
1.5
It makes Kindergarten Cop and Bringing Up Baby sparkle in comparison.
Outlook
0.5
The kiddies will love every formulaic moment. Heck, they probably wont even care that quality thespian Angelica Huston is reduced to an embarrassing w ..
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