Themes: Summer Camp, Mischievous Children, Nothing Goes Right
Main Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Lochlyn Munro, Richard Gant, Tamala Jones, Paul Rae
Release Year: 2007
Country: US
Run Time: 89 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Directed by one-time child star Fred Savage, Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care, stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae as Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson, a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp afloat even though they are under dire economic strain. In order to help improve the financial situation, and to whip together a group of children who have a problem with following orders, Hinton brings in his military-trained father (Richard Gant), even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the fathers, are involved in a series of adventures that will make the camp solvent, and help mend broken relationships. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Matt Berenson
Wyck Godfrey Co-Producer:
Adam Goldberg
Rhiannon Meier Executive Producer: John Davis
Matt Berenson
Derek Dauchy
Chris Emerson
Richard Hull
Nancy Kirhoffer
Jefferson Richard
After opening Daddy Day Care, Charlie (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Phil (Paul Rae) decide to expand their business and buys a dilapidated camp they attended as kids, turning it into Daddy Day Camp. The two men soon face foreclosure, low enrollment, and plenty of repairs. The few kids that remain at the camp eventually band together when Charlie's father, Col. Buck Hinton (Richard Gant), starts to control the whole camp and eventually the kids start to form a team instead of fighting each other. They then battle the rival day camp in an Olympiad. In the end, the kids prevail and more kids come to the camp saving Camp Driftwood from foreclosure.
Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 16th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 1% and 13% on Metacritic with 18 reviews. The film received a rare "F" from The A.V. Club.[1] On its first day of release, the film came in a mediocre 9th place with $773,706. Its opening weekend totalled just $3,402,678 in over 2,000 screens.
Film critic Fred Topel of Hollywood.com stands alone as the only critic represented on RottenTomatoes.com's "Tomatometer" to give the film a "fresh" (positive) rating.[2][3]
