Daddy Day Care

Review by James Anthony

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Two advertising agency executives find themselves in deep trouble. They have one last chance to save their careers - by successfully promoting breakfast food made from vegetables - and you can guess how that goes.

So the now unemployed dads stay home while their wives go back to work and they dream up a plan to make money by looking after kids. Sound easy? Well, they find out it isn't.

Charlie (Eddie Murphy) and Phil (Jeff Garlin) begin as many dads do - just trying to keep the kids fed, changed and the peace held, however, they realise they must do more for their charges and so really get into the Daddy Day Care thing.

Watching the pair coping with all the problems of setting up a business are fun, so is their nasty rival Angelica Huston, but the movie then gets a little heart warming as the guys begin to enjoy (if not love) the little ones.

Steve Zahn is terrific as their assistant and adds a surreal presence to the on-screen chaos.

Daddy Day Care is not Oscar-winning stuff and it doesn't show off Murphy's comic talents to their full, however, it is a nicely paced,. good humoured tale.

The ladies will enjoy watching the guys squirm at the thought of looking after so many little monsters!

Conclusion: 75% Extras: 85%.

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