How sad is this?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

Two fathers lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay at home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon , the two dads open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care" and employ some fairly unconventional and side-splitting methods of caring for children. However they face competition from the headmistress from Chapman as more of her students are joining Daddy Day Care.This film starred: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn & Angelica Hudson.DADDY DAY CARE was released in 2003 ad is and is an OK family comedy. If you have children there is a big chance they will enjoy this film because even I got a few chuckles out of it. This film isn't something I would probably watch again but I do recommend this film to people with young kids as they will most likely enjoy it. So if you have kids that go to a day care centre, you should show them this film.***/***** Could be worse.

Charlie (Eddie Murphy) and Kim Hinton (Regina King) bring Ben to try out for the expensive Chapman Academy. Kim is going back to work. Gwyneth Harridan (Anjelica Huston) is the head mistress. Jenny (Lacey Chabert) is one of the teachers. Charlie and co-worker Phil (Jeff Garlin) both get fired. Charlie pulls Ben out of Chapman. Charlie and Phil turn into Mr Moms. Charlie has an idea to start Daddy Day Care with Phil. As the guys get more successful, Harridan starts to notice and she takes on Daddy Day Care. When they get too many kids, they hire weirdo Marvin (Steve Zahn) who turns out to be good with kids.Seeing Jeff Garlin and Eddie Murphy get hit again and again can be funny or repetitive. It's a bit of both in this case. Eddie Murphy is playing it more reserved than usual. Jeff Garlin is funny. The kids are all rambunctious and cute. Some will notice a young Elle Fanning. It's not terribly original copying quite a few jokes from Mr Mom. It has a couple of funny moments and a nice film overall.

In my opinion this is one of the best family movies ever. I have watched a bunch times and laugh every time. The jokes really never get old. It is perfect for our "Family Movie Nights" and everyone loves it!!! I hope everyone else likes it too! If you like this movie and review please go subscribe to me on YouTube!! TheLCAProductions!!! I will be doing more reviews and movies soon! Please keep an eye out for all of my future projects, and my amazing, outstanding, short films!!!!I really hope that everyone else loves the movie as much as I do!!!!