Charlie Hinton has great plans for the future, starting with sending his son Ben to the states top Day Care facility now that he has his well paid job, and his wife Kim is returning to work as a lawyer, but as we all know even our best laid plans with great intentions don't always work out as we want them to.

Certificate ---PG
Year ---2003
Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic
Languages ---English ; Hungarian ; Czech ; Russian - Dolby Digital (5.1)
Subtitles ---Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; English ; Greek ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Russian ; Serbian ; Slovenian ; Swedish ; Turkish
Duration ---1 hour and 30 minutes (approx)

I feel that Eddie Murphy takes on the role of Charlie Hinton fantastically well, he manages to bring the family style comedy we are starting to get to see more of from him in films such as Dr Dolittle and The Nutty Professor into this film, which is perfect. He seems to be able to bring natural laughter into the children he staring with in this film and brings a great amount of humour to both the character, and the film. He has been extremely well teamed up with his co-star Jeff Garlin. Jeff also takes on his character as Phil excellently as well and gives him his own unique humour, which is always associated with Jeff's work, as we have seen many times before in Fat Albert, Sleepover and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Both Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin manage to not only portray there characters well and with great ease, but they seem to compliment each others acting abilities making the best friends scenario even more believable.
Angelica Huston as usually is set as a strict and stern Head mistress and due to her looks and great acting abilities is perfectly cast for this role. Her straight looks and never smiling face that we always seem to see her star in roles as is yet again in perfect harmony with the character she is playing. This morbid and yet evil looking woman as a headmistress is perfect for her as we have previously seen in other films such as The Addams Family 1 & 2, The Witches and The Dead. She really does a fantastic job of making herself the 'Head Mistress of your worst nightmares' character.
Steve Zahn takes on the role of the weird one from work, but who is great with kid's character excellently, bringing a strange yet very likable humour to his character. He seems to be able to adapt to his own weird yet wonderful humour to the fullest in this film, which we got to see a little of on other films, he has stared in such as Happy Texas and Riding In Cars With Boys, and this enables him to bring a brilliantly unique humour to the character Marvin.
The children are all fantastic in the film and are all perfectly cats for there individual roles, each making there character stand out at the right time in there special moments of the film, and in my opinion were all extremely well cast.