Daddy Day Camp

Daddy Day Camp
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Fred Savage
Produced by	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
Written by	Geoff Rodkey J. David Stem David N. Weiss Story: Geoff Rodkey Joel Cohen Alec Sokolow
Based on	Characters created by: Geoff Rodkey
Starring	Cuba Gooding, Jr. Lochlyn Munro Richard Gant Tamala Jones Paul Rae Brian Doyle-Murray
Music by	James Dooley
Cinematography	Steven B. Poster
Editing by	Christopher Greenbury
Studio	Blue Star Pictures Davis Entertainment Revolution Studios
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	August 8, 2007 (2007-08-08)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million
Box office	$18,197,398

Daddy Day Camp is a 2007 American family comedy film directed by Fred Savage in his feature film directing debut. It was the sequel to Daddy Day Care (2003), with a recast of the characters that appeared in the original film. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and released by TriStar Pictures. Reviews almost universally panned the film's potty humor and mature content.

Premise

Charlie and Phil take their kids to Camp Driftwood for summer vacation, but once there, they discover that Camp Driftwood is no longer the kindhearted camp site of its time. To save the site, Charlie and Phil buy it and turn it into Daddy Day Camp. They run into misadventures along the way, though they manage to save the camp.

Cast

• Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Charlie Hinton, the co-owner of Daddy Day Care and teacher. He was played by Eddie Murphy in the original film.
• Paul Rae as Phil Ryerson, co-owner of Daddy Day Care, Charlie's best friend and teacher. He was played by Jeff Garlin in the original film.
• Lochlyn Munro as Lance Warner, Charlie's childhood enemy and owner of the rival camp.
• Sean Patrick Flaherty as Bobby J, Lance's sidekick. Commanly thought as his son.
• Richard Gant as Col. Buck Hinton, Charlie's estranged father.
• Tamala Jones as Kim Hinton, Charlie's wife. She was played by Regina King in the original film.
• Spencir Bridges as Ben Hinton, Charlie's son. He was played by Khamani Griffin in the original film.
• Brian Doyle-Murray as "Uncle" Morty, owner of Camp Driftwood.
• Josh McLerran as Dale, a counselor at Camp Driftwood.
• Telise Galanis as Juliette, one of the campers.
• Molly Jepson as Becca, one of the campers and a student at Daddy Day Care. She was played by Hailey Noelle Johnson in the original film.
• Dallin Boyce as Max Ryerson, Phil's son. He was played by Max Burkholder in the original film.

Production

Daddy Day Camp was filmed at Park City, Utah and Provo, Utah.^{[citation needed]}

Release

Box office

On opening day Daddy Day Camp grossed only $773,706. And only grossed $3,402,678 on opening weekend on over 2,000 screens. It went on to gross $18.2 million worldwide.

Critical reception

Daddy Day Camp received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 16th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 1% on RottenTomatoes and 13% on Metacritic. The film received a rare "F" from The A.V. Club.^[1] On its first day of release, the film came in 9th place with $773,706. Its opening weekend totaled $3,402,678 in over 2,000 screens.

The film received five Razzie Award nominations, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay, and won the award for Worst Prequel or Sequel.

Film critic Fred Topel of Hollywood.com is the only critic represented on RottenTomatoes.com's "Tomatometer" to give the film a "fresh" (positive) rating.^[2][3]

Home media

Daddy Day Camp was released on Dvd and Blu-ray by Sony.

References

1. ^ Daddy Day Camp | The A.V. Club
2. ^ Daddy Day Camp Review | Hollywood.com
3. ^ Daddy Day Camp Movie Reviews (Sorted by Fresh) | RottenTomatoes.com

External links

• Official website
• Daddy Day Camp at the Internet Movie Database
• Daddy Day Camp at Rotten Tomatoes