Daddy Day Care (DVD)

...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 ...
...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 ...

NURSE_BETTY 05.08.2004 · Read full review
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Daddy Day Care was released by Revolution Studios in 2003. Written by Geoff Rodkey and directed by Steve Carr. The Cast Charlie Hinton - Eddie Murphy (Showtime, Beverly Hills Cop) Phil - Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) Marvin - Steve Zahn (National Security, You've Got Mail) Ben Hinton - Khamani Griffin (Barnyard, Happy Feet) Kim Hinton - Regina King (Jerry Maguire, Miss Congeniality 2) Bruce - Kevin Nealon (Weeds) Dan Kubitz - Jonathan ...
...Kim reluctantly agrees and so Daddy Day Care is born. Although people are dubious about two men running a childcare, after a shaky start, DDC is a roaring success. So roaring that Ms. Harridan starts losing a lot of her students. Irritated by this, she calls Child Services. Although Mr. Kubitz of Child Services approves DDC after some changes, and the hiring of an extra Daddy in Marvin (Mail Room guy at the advertising company) this is the start ...

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Daddy Day Care. (Film only review) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Plot. ============ 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. The Storyline. ============= Charlie (Eddie ...
...some convincing Phil agrees at Daddy Day care is soon advertising for business. When they eventually get some people to sign up for the day care they learn the hard way that it is not very easy having to care for several children all at the same time. They soon start to get a little better with it after a little advice from an old work college Marvin who just seems to be a natural when he calls for a visit, and before you know it, word of mouth is ...

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Mirroring Nar words of wisdom... Hello and welcome to the review that should have been here. It was here but its not here now as I have taken it and put it into my private stash somewhere else. It may well appear somewhere else online and if it does it will have my name on it. Thank you to everyone, to all the people in my COT over the years who have stuck by me and who have been great influences over the reviews I have written. It is indeed a sad ...
...a review on which makes no sense at all when the original content should be listed and frankly because of endless problems with Ciao I no longer have the time and energy to carry on. Each time I tried, it didn't work. Each message I sent to other members, they didn't appear. Each rate I applied, it didn't show. So that's the end of it. Ty for reading. One last thing...enjoy yourself and dont make the internet your life...go out and have fun! ...

beccie 15.07.2003 (09.04.2008) · Read full review
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...own, telling clearly that his daddy has no clue how to deal with children, is worth a visit to the cinema. The film brings a good laugh for everyone in the cinema – adult or still a child. Of course you can’t expect anything highly demanding. It’s just a film for the complete family, just for relaxing and having fun. A few words about the actors: I wasn’t too impressed with Anjelica Huston as the noble kindergarten owner. The role was obviously ...
...just like it when it still appears a bit more realistic. Eddy Murphy and Jeff Garlin did a good job. Their have been better films with more laughs Eddy played, but given the relatively “old and normal” topic, it was very good presented. Technical data: no minimum age, length about 90 minutes. Main actors: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Anjelica Huston ...

Nicole78 29.08.2003 · Read full review
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Anyone, who has kids or experience of them, will be rolling in the aisles at this film. I believe it to be the best family film, I have ever watched and being a mother of a young son, believe me I have watched quite a few in my time. The film is based around a very real issue that of finding reliable, safe and affordable childcare, which any parent these days will tell you is an ordeal. STORYLINE *********** Eddie Murphy (Charlie) and Jeff Garlin ...
...work fathers, striving to find adequate childcare for their young sons. The only options being that of the Chapman Academy the most expensive and academic nursery in town, a nursery based on a caravan site run by an overweight chain smoking mother or a nursery based on a farm where they keep the children in the cellar. They come to the idea that the only option is to set up and run their own day-care centre. They market themselves as “warm ...

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...care centre. Advantages Daddy day care is just another time for Eddie Murphy to shine, this DVD includes very funny scenes, to suit the whole family. the file also includes 3 set top games, kid card match up, name the noise maker, and odd one out, personally I haven't played the games, but any free games included on a great DVD is a plus. One of the main extras of the DVD I would say is the blooper reel, which shows you even more funny clips of ...
...they are simply not long enough! And the same with this one, I think they could have included a bit more to the storyline. Favorite parts My favorite part has to be when Eddie Murphys son has a bad nightmare and instead of wanting his mum, he wants his dad. This shocked me, and showed that even men can look after children. Another of my favorites is when one of the children which they looked after wouldn't go into the home, the only way was for ...

cokemusic2009 27.03.2006 (28.03.2006) · Read full review
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...howlers from him recently. Daddy Day Care is about two fathers who have been laid off from their jobs and decide to start a childcare centre in Murphy's front room. They come up with this idea as the only other 'Nursury' in the area is run by a Cruella DeVille type woman and involves the children learning latin and politics etc. So they start adertising "Daddy Day Care" and, at first, get a mixed response "what, you're both men!!" bu eventually ...
...care. The film basically follows from there, highlighting the amusing scenarios which arise when two adults look after eleven 4yr olds. Also the Cruella DeVille lady complains to the Child Protection Agency about them as they are stealing the kids from her institute! This was a good film, and i chuckled many times throughout, however, if you go for the reason i did, Murphy, you may be disapointed, he is upstaged many times by the children in this ...

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...light-weight family comedy. In Daddy Day Care, Murphy and Jeff Garlin play Charlie and Phil, two surburban dads who decide to set up their own child day care centre, after losing their high-flying jobs in advertising. This causes problems with a local pre-school teacher who starts losing her students to the competition and the Daddys soon start to wonder which is the bigger challenge, the horde of naughty kids or the evil Mrs Harridan, played by ...
...close to the knuckle action, Daddy Day Care gives us toilet gags and cute kids and, if that's what you're into, then this film will keep you and your nippers entertained. I personally didn't find it enjoyable but my nephew only wriggled around 2-3 times during the film and I take this as a sign that he enjoyed it. It's unfortunate that there weren't anymore jokes in it just for the adults like you find in so many "childrens" films these days. I ...

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The film is based around a very real issue that of finding reliable, safe and affordable childcare, which any parent these days will tell you is an ordeal. Eddie Murphy (Charlie) and Jeff Garlin (Big Phil) head up the cast as two out of work fathers, striving to find adequate childcare for their young sons. The only options being that of the Chapman Academy the most expensive and academic nursery in town, a nursery based on a caravan site run by ...
...a farm where they keep the children in the cellar. They come to the idea that the only option is to set up and run their own day-care centre. The children in their care range from a children who has separation anxiety, or not yet potty trained. As time goes on and the amount of children increase, they introduce Marvin to their staff, (to even out the Adult/Child ratio)otherwise known as their old fellow co-worker that smelled the mail. Marvin is ...

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Well I have to say that I am a little biased with the fact I dont think I have found an Eddie Murphy film that I did not enjoy. This is a perfect movie for the entire family no matter what the age. I sat and watched this with my partner and we both really enjoyed it. The basic storyline is that two work obsessed fathers loose there job, and are left at home with there kids. Being business men, they see an opportunity to make money by opening a day ...
...had first envisaged, learning how to deal with kids is hard enough,which is hilarious, but word has got around and more and more kids come. This angers the only other daycare center owner in the area, who is very strict ,and a very bitter rivalry starts. Angelica Houston who played Morticia in "The Addams family", plays the principle of Chapman Academy, and is as you might expect brillant playing the merciless principle and does not let them away ...

nina1011 27.01.2004 · Read full review
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...that everyone wants to join daddy day care. Enjoy the hillarious adventures with the kids and the rivalry beetween chapman acadamy. But in the end daddy day care comes out on top. CHAPTERS 1.start 2.charlie hinton 3.veggie-o`s 4.The chapman acadamy 5.health devision shutdown 6.value alternatives 7.taking a flier on daddy day care 8.open enrollment 9.the mission statement 10.big phil with the guitar 11.sugar time! 12.IT is happening 13 ...
...puppet show 22. ROCK FOR DADDY DAY CARE 23. proposals & propositions 24. the dream is over 25. cotton candy puffs 26. back in buisness 27. six months later 28.end credits and outakes STARRIING EDDIE MURPHY who also starred as donkey in shrek it think he is perfect for the film and makes it very funny. JEFF GARLIN he`s not super well known but he is very good in this film he adds alot of caracter to his part and is great to watch. ANGELICA ...

danrugby2005 04.03.2006 (11.03.2006) · Read full review
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...a good idea which is daddy daycare. At first when there is a sign up no-one will trust them with there kids as they are men. When one mum trusted them though the offers came flooding in. The two men do not know how 2 look after the kids at first but they soon get the hang of it. I would seriously reccommend watching this film and i have watched it several times and i still find it very funny ...

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PG rated: Language-some mild, Sex/nudity- infrequent mild, Violence- Some mild. A film starring Eddie Murphy about a dad two dads who become runners of a day care centre after they both loose thier jobs. And as you can imagine looking after many young kids isnt easy! In the beginnning they strugle to gain the trust of the mums out there and have to deal with issues such as health and safety whcih, again, isnt easy! A good comdey that the whole ...

harriet91 20.06.2008 · Read full review
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Well….. its Eddie Murphy again!! but first about the film's poster! When I first saw the poster of this film in a bus stop I didn’t like it, that’s the poster not the film!! The Idea of putting Flash (that’s the boy in red dress) over Eddie in that way was a very bad idea. Why?? Because it have some racial meanings, to put a white boy over the back of a black man with the boy acting like a winner was not a good idea at all, even though I know and ...
...its there and when I asked a friend of mine (not black, and I am not black too) about his opinion of the poster without mentioning my idea about it, there was it, he have the same feeling! So that was about the poster! The film is ‘nice’ if you want to laugh ‘but not much’ but the story is boring. You can predict the whole of it from the beginning. Eddie was OK but still not the old STAR. The kids in the film are the real stars of the show, look ...

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