Daddy Day Camp

Three years ago, critics had few good words to write about Daddy Day Care; they have even fewer for Daddy Day Camp. Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News remarks that the only thing that makes the new film an improvement on its predecessor is that it is three minutes shorter. "The plot is nothing more than a setup for an unceasing string of scatological gags, with an exploding outhouse being the comedic centerpiece," she writes. Many critics are left to wonder how an Oscar-winning actor like Cuba Gooding Jr. could wind up making movies like this. "Why would Cuba Gooding Jr. ... sink to such depths?" asks Claudia Puig in USA Today. Ty Burr observes in the Boston Globe that "Gooding sinks lower with each new movie, yet never stops smiling." Writes Desson Thomson in the Washington Post: "It's gotten to the point where Gooding's presence on a marquee practically guarantees we'll be bashing our heads against the seat in front of us." And Kyle Smith in the New York Daily News writes that the movies "has an amazing amount of CGI -- Cuba Gooding Incompetence."