Daddy Day Camp [Blu-ray]

Director: Fred Savage Fred Savage

Overview

Actor-turned-director Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) makes his feature directorial debut with this family-oriented comedy that proves just how difficult it can be for adults to keep up with those energetic little rugrats.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/29/2008
UPC:	0043396199279
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	PG
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	33,145

Special Features

How I spent my summer: making Daddy Day Camp; What I learned at camp: interactive quiz

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cuba Gooding Jr.	Actor
Richard Gant	Actor
Paul Rae	Actor
Lochlyn Munro	Actor
Tamala Jones	Actor
Joshua McLerran	Actor,Actor
Spencir Bridges	Actor
Tyger Rawlings	Actor
Molly Jepson	Actor,Actor
Dallin Boyce	Actor
Tad D'Agostino	Actor
Taggart Hurtubise	Actor
Telise Galanis	Actor
Brian Doyle-Murray	Uncle Morty
Denali McKinney	Actor,Actor
Jassy Marie	Actor
James Dooley	Composer,Composer
Savannah Keyes	Actor
Jizelle Jade Jurquina	Actor
Robin De Santis	Actor
Jonathan Bown	Actor
Melinda Ratner	Actor
Morgan B. Ackerman	Actor,Jack
Jennifer Lyons	Actor
Janice Power	Actor
Ginger Williams	Actor
Bart Johnson	Actor
Joshua David McLerran	Dale
Zachary Allen	Mullet Head
Sean Patrick Flaherty	Bobby J
Richard J. Clifford	Edward Thumson
Frank Gerrish	Plumber
Paul Kiernan	Bill
JJ Neward	Syl
Christy Summerhays	Margo
Kate Fischer	Clicque Girl
Jorji Diaz Fadel	Innocent Child
Dimitrius Deslis	Mr. West
Jennifer Lyon	Mrs. Simmons

Technical Credits

Geoff Rodkey

J. David Stern

David N. Weiss

J. David Stem

Alec Sokolow

Joel Cohen

Fred Savage	Director
Geoff Rodkey	Screenwriter
J. David Stern	Screenwriter
David N. Weiss	Screenwriter
Matt Berenson	Executive Producer,Producer
Chris Emerson	Executive Producer,Producer
Nancy Kirhoffer	Executive Producer,Producer
Richard Hull	Executive Producer,Producer
Jefferson Richard	Executive Producer,Producer
John A. Davis	Producer,Producer
William Sherak	Producer
Jason Shuman	Producer
J. David Stem	Screenwriter
Derek Dauchy	Producer
Alec Sokolow	Screenwriter
Joel Cohen	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

If you're Cuba Gooding Jr., you have to live with critics dismissing your every career move as a gauge of how far you've fallen since Jerry Maguire. Daddy Day Camp is the consummate example of that ongoing downward trend. But Gooding isn't the problem with this limp sequel to the slightly less limp Daddy Day Care. He's not much of a downgrade from Eddie Murphy, and he's plenty lively and charming. The problem is just about everything else, from Gooding's co-stars on down to the writing and the directing. As Phil, Gooding's partner in the day camp venture, Paul Rae defines the term "lifeless." He may look like a slightly thinner John Goodman, but he hasn't an ounce of Goodman's presence; he even comes up short on the low bar set by Jeff Garlin, who played his role in the original. And where the supporting roles in the first film were classed up by the likes of Anjelica Huston and Steve Zahn, it's "household names" Lochlyn Munro and Joshua McLerran filling the same plot function here. But the biggest disappointment may be Wonder Years star Fred Savage, who could have been a deceptively smart choice as director. Instead, Savage wildly over-directs an endless succession of pratfalls and potty humor. (What's more, it can't be a coincidence that there's a romantic subplot in which the boy camper resembles a stammering Kevin Arnold, and the girl camper resembles a hair-tossing Winnie Cooper.) Daddy Day Camp relies on the cluelessness of the dads for laughs, but that doesn't work, because we know they've already set up a highly successful day care. It's also problematic that the primary conflict doesn't have anything to do with the children, but rather, with Gooding's Charlie Hinton getting out of the shadow of his military dad (Richard Gant).