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Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 05-09-2003, 01:51 AM:

Still thinking about this one. It's better than "Pluto Nash" and "I Spy". However, the people at our screening tonight thought it should have been funnier than it turned out to be. It was a pretty decent show, though... given Murphy's recent efforts.

You won't believe this though... A microphone drops into the scene... and not just a little bit... A WHOLE LOT!... and they left in in there!

Sheesh!

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 05-09-2003, 02:04 AM:

I never saw any mics drop into the frame on my print. I did notice a whole bunch of CAP coding on reel 3 though.

The film was alright, about as much as I was expecting... for a kids movie it's not bad. Now if I was paying $13.50 expecting to see Eddie Murphy curse for two hours, I would be disappointed.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-09-2003, 02:51 AM:

This is a tv movie. There is no real benefit to seeing this in a theater. I don't even think seeing this with a crowd will help much. Very formula and nowhere near as funny as the premise could have been. Just a time killer, no more.

The print I screened was fine, but the audio from the Columbia logo was destroyed as the attached trailer had to be cut and moved up in the roll (like 99% of the theaters will do). To the audience, this looks like a projectionist screw up. Hey Deluxe, wake up! Do you people really not understand the concept of the audio being printed ahead of the picture??? [fu]

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-26-2003, 08:12 PM:

Reading Cinemas, Manville NJ, 5/26, 4:45 PM show. Hall #11, attendance ~200 -- I wanted to go earlier but the 2 shows before this one sold out thanks to a rainy Memorial Day. Reading is running 2 prints as the theater did not open Bruce Almighty.

Daddy Day Care is not without its charm. Corporate man gets laid off, sees a preschool run by a snooty schoolmarm, thinks he can do better, gets a former co-worker or 2 to help out. Parents move their kids over and the schoolmarm does everything to put him out of business. Formulaic but not a made-for-TV movie as Brad says. I wouldn't see where anything made for TV would include a scene with a Star Trek puppet show. [Wink]

It helps that Daddy Day Care was in theaters when a woman played in a men's golf tournament -- a story that in itself was big news even in New Jersey.

Eddie Murphy ought to stop doing F/X-laden movies and do more "family man" stuff. This way his career will get a second wind. Also check out Anjelica Huston as the schoolmarm!

Presentation: OK image-wise except for the mic dropping right into a scene (it comes about 1-2 minutes into R3). Sound was good for SR. The print I saw had the Early Bloomer short attached; it ends with the rating card (rated G) and goes straight to the green band for the attached trailer. And yes, I got to hear a false start on the Columbia theme [Embarrassed]

since Reading spliced in its quasi-generic (Pepsi) policy trailer.

Posted by Jonathan M. Crist (Member # 413) on 06-29-2003, 09:43 PM:

Basically this is 30 minutes of material padded out to an hour and a half. The kids get real squirmy .... which means that the concession is dynamite.

Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 06-30-2003, 04:35 AM:

This film is simply awful.

About the only thing that comes near to being funny is the scene involving the broccoli and the carrot but even this fizzles out very quickly.

One can imagine some studio exectuve pitching this..."hey man - why don't we put Eddie Murphy with a group of cute kids. Murphy..Kids... Murphy...Kids yeh that would work"

Unfortunately the absence of anything near a plot makes this film a complete stinker.

Having said all the above, my wife loved the film. Go figure...

3 stars out of ten

cheers Peter