Daddy Day Care (Special Edition)
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Actor: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Kevin Nealon, Regina King, Steve ZahnBrand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Published: 2003-12-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- TESTED
DVD Reviews of Daddy Day Care (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Reality^(-1)
Summary: 2 Stars
Daddy Daycare is a fluffy vehicle for Edie Murphy and his new hairstyle (so weird, it looks like Batman's cowl). It is so light the whole edifice is made of cotton candy. It punches all the right buttons: set-ups for obvious jokes, touching moments with parent's and cute kids (not an ugly kid in the whole film!), plenty of eye-candy with improbably lovely and slender d-cup mothers dropping off their wee ones into Eddie' care, etc. etc.
The plot (if there is one, and I'm using the word charitably here) is that Eddie is a high-powered advertising executive married to his high-powered attorney wife, who is now a full partner in her law-firm at the tender age of 18 (...oppss! I'm sorry, that's the age of the actress playing her!). Eddie losses his job, and his hapless jovial chubby sidekick does as well. Suddenly, the bills don't stop coming in, money is tight, and childcare choices in the area are:
The EVIL WASPY PREPPY SCHOOL! THAT TURN KIDS INTO OVERMEN ROBOTS! Which is run by Angelica Huston, who reprises her role from "The Witches" (her acting in this is indistinguishable from that outing). Angelica's sidekick assistant is a nerdy girl (we can tell she's a nerd, she's wearing glasses!) with hair in a severe bun but who also sports a d-cup (don't worry, by the end of the film she's in a tight "Daddy Daycare" t-shirt, hair down like a hippie, and bouncing gratuitously for the boys, you'll get to see `em!).
So Eddie and his pal set up their own day care center in Eddie's home. Hilarity ensues. Potty jokes!
Beset with regulatory inspections by a sympathetic government official, they enlist the aid of their former office mate-copy boy who (surprise!!!!) has a magical way with children because of his own warped Star-Trek nerd infested immaturity! With the three of them Daddy Daycare is soon a screaming success!
So Angelica Houston pulls out the big guns (nope, not her assistant's chestmeat) and starts subverting their success. Hilarity ensues!!!
Soon, all the clients and children have abandoned the rules-based repressive uniformed school run by Houston and joined the loving, colorful, free-form, nurturing, spacious, profitable, Daddy Daycare of Murphy and his pals. As the white children leave Angelic Houston's school they all change into various absolutely racially and typically pure examples of all the colors in the rainbow children from a United Colors of Benetton ad. Angelica Huston doesn't even have to touch them with her wand to do it. Absolutely no mixed-race children appear in the film whatsoever, so don't be afraid!!!
The hugs-all-around ending is the dads stay home with the kids at their shining new $20 million dollar day care facility while the moms go off to their executive jobs in their chauffeur-driven jetpacks. Anytime anyone needs any money it just magically flys out their rear-end and into their wallets. Huston is reduced to a government job at which she performs poorly and in public, which everyone can ridicule. Eddie Murphy smiles for the camera with his super-nova white teeth and our eyes pop from our heads as our molten brains leak out the sockets and into our laps. The liberal Hollywood machine refills the empty cavity with Zombie goo and we scoop pabulum into our gobholes as we surrender our free will to the Matrix. The end.
Description of Daddy Day Care (Special Edition)
DVDThere are some good laughs to be found in Daddy Day Care, especially if you're a preschooler with energy to burn. This romper-room comedy shamelessly exploits its high concept idea--dropping Eddie Murphy into a seething den of rugrats--but kids will have plenty of vicarious fun as Murphy and his fellow laid-off colleague (Jeff Garlin) battle unemployment by opening a day-care center in Eddie's home. In partial Witches mode, Anjelica Huston hams it up as a day-care competitor bent on closing Eddie down, while doofus extraordinaire Steve Zahn is recruited as a third partner in "Daddy Day Care," trying his best to entertain a pack of hyperactive kids who've stopped taking their Ritalin. Zahn makes a funny Star Trek fan (even when the script contains bogus Trekkie trivia), and Murphy deserves credit for giving his all in a comedy that mostly squanders his talent. Indeed, is Daddy Day Care a comedy or every parent's nightmare? Daring viewers can decide for themselves. --Jeff Shannon
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