Daddy Day Camp

Plot synopsis:
Four years after the events of Daddy Day Care, Charlie and Phil take their kids to Camp Driftwood, a camp they attended as kids. But once there, they discover that Camp Driftwood is no longer the kindhearted camp site of their time. To save the run down site, Charlie and Phil buy a partnership from the older man that ran it when they were children, after the other partner runs off on vacation. They turn it into Daddy Day Camp. They run into misadventures along the way when the owner, Lance Warner, in the rival camp Canola tries to tear it down. The first day of camp turns out to be a disaster involving a skunk and a bathroom explosion, which leaves them left with only 7 campers instead of the original 35 and in need of help to improve their financial situation.
The next day, the camp is raided by Camp Canola, which has been joined by the 28 campers who left Camp Driftwood, Charlie calls his military father, Colonel Buck Hinton, for help to whip the kids into shape, since they have problems following orders. After getting revenge on Lance for getting his campers to steal the Camp Driftwood flag, he then challenges Camp Driftwood to the Camp Olympian but the kids have to train for it. The kids love Buck because of his military ways and support, However, Charlie disapproves as he recounts that he doesn't want the kids to become like Buck because Charlie believes that Buck only cares about toughness and that he, Charlie, was a disappointment to him. He starts to regret his decision to call Buck when his son runs off to the woods, after some campers tease him about his father's over-protectiveness, because his grandpa Buck told him that he became 'tough' when he ran off to the woods. They find him but when Charlie complains to Phil about Buck, Buck overhears their conversation and leaves camp.
On the day of the Olympian, the others find out that Buck has left. Seeing the kids discouraged, Charlie goes to find Buck and bring him back. He finds Buck and resolves all his problems with his dad. When they return the kids report that they found out that the rival camp has cheated in the Olympiad, and have been doing so for several past years; this is especially true when it's revealed that Charlie lost to Lance when they were kids. Charlie lets Ben do the climbing course, since Ben knows how to climb, but he falls. However, Becca tells everyone that Lance greased the wall, making everyone realize that Lance cheated in every game in the Olympian. While climbing a wall, Ben uses the tree next to it with enough time left to hit the bell giving Camp Driftwood the win.
After all the times his stepfather refused to be his dad, Lance's son kicks him, causing the wall to fall over all of Lance's trophies. Camp Driftwood wins, and the parents who signed their kids to be in Camp Canola originally then ask Charlie for their kids to be in Camp Driftwood, which saves it from foreclosure.

Tags: boring

Review:
After sitting through the entirety of Daddy Day Camp, I have to wonder what was going through everyone's minds who were involved in the making.
The most likely reason was probably them thinking, "Is it really possible to make a movie this year that is worse than Evan Almighty and Delta Farce?
Let's go for it!" Fortunately, Daddy Day Camp is nowhere near as horrible as those other two films, but lord know that it does come very close.
This abomination of a movie somehow manages to feature a great actor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., in by far his worst role yet.Anyone even slightly familiar with the first film will know the deal here.
Low on money, Charlie Hinton decides to open up a camp similar to the day care service he ran in the first movie.
While the first movie wasn't anything to write home about, Daddy Day Camp is about a thousand times worse.
The first film is almost entirely disregarded and almost every role is recast (although I haven't seen the first one in quite some time so there might not be any of the original cast members returning.) When Eddie Murphy turned down the movie, they should have just dropped it and forgotten about it.
His manic energy, his great comedic timing, his general appeal Cuba Gooding Jr. is a great actor, but this role was just altogether wrong for him.
That being said, however, he was certainly the best aspect about this utterly atrocious film.Daddy Day Camp is missing much of the magic that made the first movie watchable.
None of the scene meld together very well (some of the younger characters go from heartfelt moments, to being rude to other kids for no reason to be rude and increasingly annoying) and the writing and dialogue are as unbelievable as they come.
Since none of the younger characters follow this lesson throughout the movie or seem to have learned anything by the film's end, it all feels just so useless.
In Daddy Day Camp, just like with the first film, it is pretty much lame gag after lame gag, watching flashy boring moments thrown onto the screen in the hopes that something will stick and not come off as completely and totally immature.
In fact, I didn't even crack a smile throughout the whole movie, and I am incredibly easy to please.Another huge problem of the film was that most of the child actors were not only annoying, but their acting was so bad that I wanted to kill myself.
Movies as bad as Daddy Day Camp could at least have the common decency to provide us with a semi-likable cast of children that won't annoy us to death throughout the movie.
The people who cast this predictable shame of a movie should have learned a lesson from the talents of the kids in the feature film adaption of How to Eat Fried Worms.
And not all of the kids were completely terrible.So all in all, Daddy Day Camp was a pretty crappy movie filled with wasted talent and some of the worst child actors I've seen on screen.
Daddy Day Care was a sweet and simple movie that I enjoyed quite a bit actually, I really don't think it needed a sequel of any sorts.
As you may have seen in many of my reviews for his films, I am a huge Cuba Gooding Jr. fan and he is MUCH better than the turds like this that he is producing now a days.
It's a film of unfunny gags for toddlers, and it just has no real heart or soul to the movie other than the relationship of Cuba, his son and Cuba's father which is superbly played by Richard Gant.Performances.
This is good kid-movie!
Jokes makes me smile, but not laugh of course, i am probably too old for this humor :) But kids may like it very much.
I see A LOT of movies every day and to half of them i am not paying attention too much or just turn off after few boring minutes.
Daddy day camp i watched till the end (and with some pleasure).
But, Charlie's kid saves the day by winning.Why would Cuba Gooding be in this.
I'm going to have to say, for Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr. to take a role such as this, he may have risked his entire career's great overview.
The opening movie Daddy Day Care was a found enjoyment, and a nice family movie.
A boring, fun-made family movie that just targets towards kids for their innovative crude and immature humor.
Daddy Day Camp is an humorless piece of garbage, that shouldn't be seen by anyone, at any time..
OK first off i was put off this movie by the fact that Eddie Murphy didn't want to be in it, which looking at the films he pumps out now is saying something (i have Norbit in mind) i only saw this movie as a friend had it so it didn't cost me anything, and i was sorely disappointed.I had always liked Cuba Gooding Jr. since i saw him in rat race, but this has ruined my opinion of him.I found this movie unfunny and as it develops it becomes a poor mans cheaper by the dozen 2 (which was no masterpiece itself) truly a film to avoid.
Charlie (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) and Phil (Paul Rae) have been running their successful Daddy DayCare for several years now.
Charlie's wife thinks it would be good for their now elementary ages son to go to day CAMP.
One day, I would really like to see an interview with Cuba Gooding Jr. as to why he accepted one crappy movie project after another after getting an Oscar, eventually finding himself only able to get work in direct-to-DVD projects - or movies originally intended to go direct-to-DVD, as this project was.
The movie starts off a bit like a slapstick, with humor more aimed at (very) young kids (although it didn't bother me that much; I'm still a child at heart).
The second half of the movie is just good, when the plot picks up, evolving around a rivalry between two summer camps, intertwined with "lessons" about the father-son relationship.
If you want to hire a movie for your kid between 5 and 10 years old, don't be afraid to hire this one and I assure they'll have lots of fun and really feel good afterwards..
This film does depend too heavily on various "stink" jokes, but the performances are generally strong.The father-son relationship is well portrayed, especially by Cuba's father (Richard Gant).
Munro) is a good, bad-guy.Paul Rae, who plays Cuba's sidekick is impressive.
Rae gives a subtle performance that goes far beyond the usual fat-guy role.Fred Savage does a good job with the kids.
I thought it was a good idea not to have Cuba Gooding Jr act like Eddie.
Cuba Gooding, Jr., is not as wildly off the wall as Eddie Murphy, nor as funny.
How else can an actor go from an Oscar-winning performance in "Jerry McGuire" to making crap like "Daddy Day Camp" in a decade?
Of course, occasionally they are just horrible...period.The film begins with a Black actor and a White actor (just like in "Daddy Day Care"--just with different actors).
They are trying to find the perfect summer day camp experience for their kids.
They hit upon the lame idea of re-opening the camp that they'd gone to as kids--as it's bankrupt and COULD be run successfully if they use their "Daddy Day Care" method they used in the last film.As for the camp, the kids and their parents are all kooky characters (or is it 'caricatures'?.
But, given that this is a Hollywood film, you can safely assume that against all odds, everything will magically work out by the end of the movie.
Daddy Day Care was flawed, but actually pretty watchable.
Daddy Day Camp however is a poor film.
The acting is nothing special, Cuba Gooding Jnr tries hard to make something out of his character and replacing Eddie Murphy, but instead comes across as bland and annoying.
Same with Paul Rae, and how Richard Grant got dragged into this I shall never know.Overall, a poor comedy and family film with little to offer, old or new.
I was right, the movie was boring and not much funny at all, the first thing was that Eddie Murphy was missing, he did an great job in the first part and gave a lot to the humorous part of the movie.
I'm fairly certain that in a few years, when people start seriously looking back on the Greatest Films of the 2000s (I call them the "aughts"), Daddy Day Camp will be at the top of most peoples' lists.This film stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., who never really impressed me in his earlier roles in Boyz n the Hood and Jerry Maguire.
I think Savage should have been put in charge of directing the original Daddy Day Care movie; he might have saved it from flopping so horribly!
It's a sequel to a movie starring Eddie Murphy called "Daddy Day Care" which I heard was bad to begin with and I'm not even going to waste my time with that movie.
Great movie Cuba Gooding nailed it!.
First time posting a review, i just had to because i got sick and tired of everyone saying this is a bad movie, they have no since of humor.
Even though Eddie who is my all time favourite actor didn't star in this movie, i kind of like it more then Daddy day care even Big up for this review!.
The first film, despite not being a marvel of the seventh art, still managed to convince the viewer and make him spend a very entertaining time with a story that incited simple humor on the part of the youth under ten years.
But in view of the success of the first, the producer decides to win money to the beast making a sequel very dispensable of this already saga.The second is about Cuba Gooding trying to keep afloat a camp he went to when he was young.
But it turns out that next to it there is a new camp the director of who was old opponent of Cuba (Lochlyn Munro), whose children soon become opponents.
Daddy Day Camp is just simple family friendly entertainment.
Cuba Gooding Jr. actually did pretty well despite what some critics might say about his performance.
Cuba's dad in this movie was my favorite part of the whole film, that was a really good character, and he had some good scenes.
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.
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.
I mean let's face it: like most sequels, Daddy Day Camp is not better than the first but still enjoyable.
Of the actors, Cuba Gooding Jr. and the the other camp monitors (which I forget their names) were excellent.
Some of the kids like Cuba's son in the movie could easily start a career, while some others (which I will not name) should be sent down to the Razzies.
Besides Cuba's son, Billy the bully is within the good actors, and Grandpa Buck is hilarious.The emplacements were beautiful, and I just wish for people like major critics to stop saying negative stuff on this movie, because it's a lot better than what you're expected to watch..
this movie isn't near as bad as most of the reviewers on here claim it to be,, I don't honestly know what their expectations were, but they must have been pretty darn high,, they must have been expecting it to be as good as the first one,,, wrong,, course it's inferior to the first one I figured it would be.
Cuba Gooding Jr. however will have you rolling on the floor with laughter,, which is exactly what I was looking for when I bought this movie,, lot's of mayhem and practical jokes about in this movie.
I am shocked this sequel to "Daddy Day Care" was given to Cuba Gooding Jr. Besides the latest Land Before Time sequel, what else has he done?
I sure he and Cuba would work out fine together.The cheesy sequel revolves around a camp that is about to be destroyed, which sounds like "Ernest Goes to Camp" in my opinion.
I don't need to go into details because it has been done one-hundred times before with a better cast and acting.This movie is deserving of its Razzie Award.
Send Fred Savage to Movie-making Day Camp.
Directing his first feature film after years of work in television, he allows Cuba Gooding, Jr. to shamelessly mug the camera as if his eyebrows needed exercise.
The big bully kid (there has to be one, of course) who looks to be about twelve going on thirteen, turns out to have a bed wetting problem (note the originality of this plot twist).
The problem is that even though others are on screen at the same time, Gant is always working alone.Not even the moral of the story - and this being a "family film" there must be a moral - provides any redemption for this movie.
This time however the studio and the director could get no one from the original movie to come back.
I think the preview was funny when it said "from the studio that brought you Daddy Day Care", like the studio ever really matters.
The only highlight of this film is the man who plays Cuba Gooding's father.
Daddy Day Camp.
Basically the story continues where the last film left off, where Charlie Hinton (Razzie nominated Cuba Gooding Jr., replacing Eddie Murphy) and his partner Phil Ryerson (Paul Rae) have made Daddy Day Care a big success.
They start very badly having to clear up the mess left behind, and when some kids do come to the camp hoping for a good time, they lose about half their customers.
After a few cheats by Camp Catona, the good guys do catch up, and eventually it is revealed the rivals were cheating, and the right people do win, and many parents are glad to be signing up to Camp Driftwood for their kids.
I agree with the critics that it is horrible to see a once Oscar winning actor wasting his time with stupid films like this, it is not funny, it is predictable, it is irritating, and I don't think anyone older than three years old will like it, a really awful family comedy.
The entire premise for the story falls apart when you realise the main character could have just called the police on the other camp and solved all his problems, but no, Hollywood has to fill its quota of films teaching manly self-reliance as a religious absolute, and that the little guy can always stick it to the man if he believes (despite the mountains of evidence that this approach fails 99.9% of the time).
Above all, why is it 'the man' keeps promoting this message via terrible children's films?Aside from the crippling problems with the overall story, this so called comedy only ever attempts jokes on a par with The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
It also teaches a lesson about cheating.Cuba Gooding is one actor I sort of feel sorry for.
He does fine here as the co-owner of Daddy Day Care.Lochlyn Munro plays Gooding's childhood enemy and the owner of a rival camp.
Granted there were moments that the acting could have been better, but overall I thought this was a good solid movie for kids.
Well, this movie is suffering the same problem Son of the Mask has: no Eddie Murphy!!
The plot has made positively no sense by any means and all the characters look absolutely nothing like the originals from Daddy Day Care.
i think it is intended to prove to the viewers that they will make things happen against all odds (& incompetent employees)...boringly predictable too is the attempts by cuba to restore the camp to working order & the mishaps that follow on subsequent visits by kids...for guys who have been running a successful daycare for several years, they are pretty clueless about how to entertain the children as well as how to make profits...also when the competition camp goes on a rampage, more than once, why was the police not informed?
this movie gives me the desire to end my own life.The first one wasn't bad, but a sequel, Fred savage should be ashamed of himself and personally pay all of us who have seen it back.
how old is it, it says it wants to watch nudie movies at home, overall big waste of time, its 90 minutes you're better off watching be kind rewind