Basically, Daddy Day Care is a movie without an audience. Wait! I hear your thoughts, "What are you talking about Alex? That sounds like it's the perfect movie for my kids!"

Well, do your kids want to watch a movie with ad executives that lose their jobs and worry about how they're going to pay the bills? They can see that enough when they're at home. So, taking the advice of the title, Eddie Murphy and Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin, open up a day care center, where it's quite obvious that the children are in mortal danger nearly one hundred percent of the time.

My biases for you to see: I think Jeff Garlin is absolutely hilarious. The only laughs I had in this movie were from the way that he delivered straight dialogue. Hearing Jeff say something like, "I'm hungry" is enough to send me into a fit of laughter. So anyway, at their Daddy Day Care, there are many mishaps and poop jokes, none of them funny. That's the gist of the movie.

Oh, they try to stick in some plot development as Angelic Houston's stuck up prep school attempts to shut them down, but as so many critics have pointed out (most notably, Ebert), Angelica's school seems like the better one anyway. The kids learn new languages, do Tai Chi, and generally seem to be having a good time, while at Eddie's two grown men dress in vegetable suits and wrestle.

Perhaps the only shining light in this cesspool of mediocrity, is the opportunity to see Lacey Chabert in a little school girl uniform. But when something as simple as that becomes your draw to a movie... well. No child will really enjoy this, and it's not witty enough for adults. You're better off just sticking with Nemo and Toy Story to keep the kids entertained.

Movie Grade: D

Video: 1 out of 5
Unacceptable for a new movie. Not only is it desaturated, it's also grainy and looks blown up. Really crap transfer, probably due to all the different junk being crammed on one disc. I don't think this bastard is even anamorphic.
Widescreen - 1.85:1, Full Screen - 1.33:1