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Daddy Day Camp
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13 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 18 out of 19
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Gianni Truzzi
    42
    This belabored summertime sequel is moderately less vulgar, certainly less expensive and, if possible, even less funny than its forerunning bomb, "Daddy Day Care."
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    38
    A tired and unnecessary sequel.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    This terrible sequel to a bad movie was directed by Fred Savage, the now-grown star of "The Wonder Years," though there's no evidence of any behind-the-scenes adult supervision.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Innocuous amusement for 5- to 8-year-olds and other people stuck in the anal stage of development.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    30
    Any scrap of charm or honest-to-goodness humor already possessed in limited quantities by the original has been relegated to the outhouse in this sorry follow-up.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    30
    A recruiting poster for kids, insisting that there's no domestic problem that military values can't solve.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    30
    This sequel to the 2003 Eddie Murphy comedy may appeal to auds still young enough not to have seen it all before, or who still find flatulence hilarious, or who think adults, when agitated, flail about like epileptic marionettes.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    It's gotten to the point where Gooding's presence on a marquee practically guarantees we'll be bashing our heads against the seat in front of us. Bonk, bonk, bonk.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    25
    If you're looking for a modern-day "Meatballs" - or, for that matter, "Meatballs 4" - you're out of luck.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Will Crain
    25
    Too predictable, but kids should like it.
  11. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    25
    The unfunny jokes center on outhouses, vomit and flatulence. Gooding mugs, screeches, even hops up and down to no avail. Nothing can wring an ounce of comedy out of this sorry spectacle.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Gregory Kirschling
    25
    Filling in for Eddie Murphy in a septically humored kiddie sequel to "Daddy Day Care," Gooding gives a mug-job performance that consists mainly of reacting (again and again) to nasty smells.
  13. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    12
    A comedy for no ages, has an amazing amount of CGI - Cuba Gooding Incompetence.
  14. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    11
    Despite cute kids, tough dads, and problems controlling bed-wetting and farts, Daddy Day Camp should just limp off to the nurse's tent and call it quits.
  15. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tim Grierson
    10
    Depressingly shrill.
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    10
    Like its methane-filled outhouse that explodes right on cue, this sequel to "Daddy Day Care" (2003) smells.
  17. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    0
    About as much fun as being given a wedgie and hung from the camp flagpole, Daddy Day Camp is an unnecessary sequel.
  18. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Michael Ferraro
    0
    Daddy Day Camp is a perfect family film for the blind and deaf.
  19. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    0
    A generic time-waster powered by a lazy, cynical combination of scatological kiddie humor and maudlin sentiment.
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1.7 out of 10

Overwhelming dislike- based on 49 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 19 out of 22
  1. Smitherson
    5
    I liked it.. but I didn't like it at all... uh yea I like chicken. Baby farted. and Joe heard it... and smelled it.
  2. mrcritic
    2
    Unecesscary sequel. Pure puke. 13/100 is critics being nice.
  3. Zilcell
    1
    Very few funny moments here and the cast doesn't seem to care about what is going on in the first place. There is very very little here to recommend.
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