This is my first film review so I will try and explain the film with out giving all the fantastic bits away! I realise that when you read a review and they tell you everything that happens then you end up thinking well sounds good but I know what happens now!! So therefore I will only talk about the overall story and some of the good bits so I don’t ruin it for you all!
I first bought the daddy day care DVD when my nephew saw a trailer for it, and being the sadistic little bugger that he is, he saw kids running riot and kicking adults therefore had to have it. Of course he had (coz I thought it looked cool too).
The film starts off with two family men (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin) who work in the promotion and advertisement department. Which is very time consuming for them and therefore they don’t have as much to do with their children as they would like, and with the mother and the father working the children are forced to go the only decent child care place in the area! Which is very expensive! Anyway the two dad’s latest scheme is to promote a cereal that is made out of vegetables…cue the carrot and broccoli men!! As you may imagine the children reacted the same way that my niece and nephew did at the thought!! “Err gross”. So that whole little scheme backfired and as a result they go
fired!!
Therefore they both tried looking for new jobs and as time when on they began to run out of savings as they were having no look in finding a job! After six weeks they are forced to take the children out of the Chapman academy where they were learning English, maths and foreign languages to become house husbands and full time dads!
They spend time looking for cheaper child care and come across some dodgy people, and while talking to other mothers about the lack of child care and the selectiveness of Chapman they decide to open there own child care centre..Hence the daddy day care. Obviously people are sceptic about handing their children over to two fellas so armed with flyers they go out touting for business….some funny moments as that is happening! (But then a laugh a bloke expensive is always good).
Anyway they manage to get the kids to come to the daddy day care! These kids have some winning personalities to name a few there is Tony better known as flash because he will only wear his superhero outfit! A young girl that despite being allergic to everything is very clever and can already read really well! Another boy Crispin that is always rude and likes to kick! And Rhian’s fav a boy that cries and cries when his mother is trying to leave and then gets paid to shut up! – Oh the guilt trips that kids can pull and they are sooo good at it!!
You then get to watch all the ways that Murphy and Garlin try and look after these kids……the trial and error period makes hilarious watching! As time goes on the kids begin to learn more, make friends and the lovely Crispin even begins to say thank you and please! All the time they are becoming more popular and have more kids join their group therefore becoming even bigger competition to the stuck up Chapman academy. They end up having too many children that they are told they have to hire some one else... (Who is fantastic with the kids though only agreed coz he fancied one of the mothers). They are then told that they need a bigger place if they want to have that many kids!
But obviously in order to get a bigger place they need money so they decide to have a fun day to raise some cash! Cue the hilarious sabotage by the Chapman girls. (This is funny to watch and therefore one of those bits were im not going to spoil it). With the disaster of this combined with the offer of their jobs back leaves the dads back at work and the children back at the snooty Chapman academy learning about the psychology of goldilocks!
Now the question is do the dads stay at work or do they go back to the daddy day care jobs????? Watch and find out!
This is a great family film that had me and my niece and nephews laughing till we were bad!
Ross loved the ending of the DVD when they show all the bloopers – oh he loves it when things go wrong!
Special features of the DVD are the early bloomers – which are all about tadpoles turning in to frogs – the kids were impressed with this little cartoon! NOT
Featurettes – these include good morning Eddie Murphy, meet the kids of daddy day care, quiet on the set and what did that kid say?!?
Games – these are kid card match up; name that noise maker and odd one out.
There is also the theatrical trailer!
For the back of the box stuff! It is rated as PG States that the language (some, mild) there was none that I can really think of and there was nothing that the kids picked up on! They are the type of kids that will hear something then repeat it again and again! Sex and nudity (infrequent, mild) but apart from seeing them kiss they wasn’t Violence (some, mild and comic) this is true the kids kicking the adults and the carrot and broccoli fight!!
This film was made by Motion pictures 2003, by revolution It runs for approx 88 mins, though it didn’t seem like it! Ross is the type of lad that can not sit still for more than five mins and he manages to sit and watch this every time!
Anyway this film gets thumbs up from me! The kids thought it was cool and sooo funny! So we recommend it as a great family film!!
Happy watching Mair x x
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