Daddy Day Care

Comedy

Eddie Murphy	Charlie Hinton
Khamani Griffin
Jeff Garlin	Phil
Steve Zahn	Marvin
Regina King	Kim Hinton
Kevin Nealon	Bruce
Jonathan Katz	Dr. Dan Kubitz
Siobhan Fallon Hogan	Peggy
Lisa Edelstein	Crispin's Mom
Elle Fanning	Jamie
Michelle Krusiec	English Teacher

Director

Steve Carr

There are some good laughs to be found in Daddy Day Care, especially if you're a pre-schooler with energy to burn. This romper-room comedy shamelessly exploits its high concept idea--dropping Eddie Murphy into a seething den of rugrats--but kids will have plenty of vicarious fun as Murphy and his fellow laid-off colleague (Jeff Garlin) battle unemployment by opening a day-care centre in Eddie's home. In partial Witches mode, Anjelica Huston hams it up as a day-care competitor bent on closing Eddie down, while doofus extraordinaire Steve Zahn is recruited as a third partner in "Daddy Day Care", trying his best to entertain a pack of hyperactive kids who've stopped taking their Ritalin. Zahn makes a funny Star Trek fan (even when the script contains bogus Trekkie trivia), and Murphy deserves credit for giving his all in a comedy that mostly squanders his talent. --Jeff Shannon