Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Ross622 When I first saw Steve Carr's Daddy Day Care I thought that it was going to be a funny movie about 2 dads who lose their jobs (played by Eddie Murphy, and Jeff Garlin) who end up on deciding to open a daycare center at Murphy's house and then all hell breaks loose, and the movie gets worse with Angelica Huston's horrible performance as a head mistress to a preschool academy who does not believe in toddlers having fun, and Steve Zahn as Marvin one of the workers who ends up losing the same job just like Murphy and Garlin did while making dopey faces and being very weird which makes the movie even worse. This is really one of the worst movies of 2003 making me laugh at the movie instead of with it. I mean really what was Murphy, Garlin, Zahn, Huston, as well as Regina King who gives the only good performance in the entire movie thinking while making this miserable movie watching experience. But I was originally going to give this movie 1 star but had to give it two because Regina King gave the only good performance, and by the way those of you people who liked this movie watch it again to see if you change your mind about this laugh less comedy.

FlashCallahan Two men get laid off in product development at a large food company and are forced to become stay-at-home fathers. They create a new day care facility called "Daddy Day Care". As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a rivalry with the Chapman Academy tough-as-nails director, Ms. Harridan.....Whatever you think of Eddie Murphy and his later films (the ones without swearing), one cannot deny that they have a slight sincerity about them.Here is another example, if it is an average example. Murphy plays the straight guy with all the best lines and the best house and best kids. The Big guy plays the slapstick Prat- falling guy with a fear of body fluids.And then there's Steve Zahn. An actor who is quite prolific, so at the time it was quite odd him being in this, but he is and he is the useless part of the film. There really wasn't any reason for him to be in this.The film plays out how it should, there's a scene where the Day Care gets threatened with closure, the rival group sabotage something, and Murphy gives it all up to get his old job back, but then something happens that makes him realise the error of his ways.It's not funny, I didn't laugh once, but its nice and inoffensive, and my daughter lapped it up.

g-bodyl Daddy Day Care is a better-than-expected film. Critics like Ebert disliked this film as well as the viewers. I saw this movie because I was bored and had nothing else to to do. Eddie Murphy plays a father who just got fired from his job and starts a daycare center with the help of his friend. I actually had a pretty good time watching this film. There were plenty of fine performances by the kids who attended the daycare. Other noticeable actors were Jeff Garlin and Steve Zahn. Zahn was funny as the sci-fi geek and Garlin was great as the the friend of Eddie Murphy. The only thing wrong with this film is that this film is not original. These kind of films are in Hollywood all the time now. Also a few more jokes would not hurt. Overall this film is good. I rate this film a 7/10.

virlyn2 Except for his role in Beverly Hills Cop, I think Eddy Murphy is a bad actor. And once again he confirmed my thoughts on him playing Charlie Hinton in this herendous euh thing. The first 20 minutes are unbelievably boring, as you already know from the start he's going to get fired and start a day care with his idiotic friend. But no, first you get to know the characters and what they stand for. After 20 minutes of lame conversations you finally understand how a nice guy Charlie and how cute his fat friend is. They are those typical cliché family guys who do stupid things once in a while but who you can always count on . Thanks for the introduction.The only reason you keep on watching is the hope that there will be some funny action going on after they started their day care. But no, nothing happens. Just a bunch of kids running around screaming and shouting, chased by our two charming protagonists. No, a guy getting kicked in the nuts and completely overacting is not funny. No, two guys disguised as a carot and a brocoli is not funny. No, one of the guys paying a kid to get in the house is not funny.And what about the evil kid? what was that? and the kid in his flash costume suddenly running extremely fast? was that supposed to be funny? but lets cut to the chase, this movie is so fking bad, its awful. There's just nothing funny about it, nothing nothing nothing. I would never show this piece of dog turd to my children. This is not a nice-time-with-the-family-on-a-cozy-Saturday-evening-film. It makes your Saturday evening boring.I'm sorry Eddy, but you suck, along with this tremendously lousy everything-but-a comedy movie