Daddy Day Care Critic Reviews

A harmless and amusing summer comedy. Read the full review

If you attend the movie with your expectations lowered by Murphy's recent films, you'll be reasonably amused.Read the full review

The Daddy Day Care business model appears to be the 1983 Michael Keaton vehicle ''Mr. Mom,'' put on an unstoppable sugar high. Read the full review

An easy-on-the-sensibilities family film, Eddie Murphy practically assumes the easygoing manner of Mister Rogers, a character he used to wickedly lampoon on "Saturday Night Live." Read the full review

A big-screen sitcom so sleepy and juvenile it might as well come with its own nap break. Read the full review

His (Eddie Murphy's) performance in Daddy Day Care isn't bad. He's restrained, and even tender in some of the scenes he plays with the kids. But restraint is the last thing we want from a comic of his caliber. It's no fun at all. Read the full review

Scarcely more amusing than spending 90 minutes in a pre-K classroom. Read the full review

This is one of those nearly unwatchable movies that becomes an endurance contest for any thinking adult.Read the full review

Aggressively simple-minded, it's fueled by the delusion that it has a brilliant premise: Eddie Murphy plus cute kids equals success. But a premise should be the starting point for a screenplay, not its finish line.Read the full review