Daddy Day Care
Daddy Day Care, a comedy and family film that stars Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Khamani Griffin and many more. Has become a classic movie all around the nation hitting record numbers during their premiere week in 2003 and now watchable in places like Netflix and Hulu due to its popularity and demand from the people. Daddy Day Care hits points that every classic and emotional movie has to have, including failure and success, love, family, and growth in between each other.
Daddy Day Care starts with Charlie Hinton, a father of one and a husband, he is working for a cereal company in a failing department for the industry. With recent unemployment of his job and his son Ben having to start preschool soon in the Chapman Acadamy with soaring prices, Charlie’s wife, Kim now has to get a job while Ben and Charlie stay home searching for ideas with a new job. With the help of Charlie’s ex-coworker Phil, they decide to open a daycare center located at Charlie’s house after getting an idea from a neighbor since the only other daycare has extremely high prices or isn’t suitable for the kid’s enjoyment.
After convincing Kim and Phil, the opening of the daycare was not successful due to the sexist fact that because the business of childcare was owned and ran by men, they could not handle the pressure and duties like a woman would. But after the same neighbor who brought the idea into their heads convinced a couple ladies to leave their kids, business got running and they started off with 9 kids and immediately there was a disorder with the disobedient kids, an uproar occurred and the babysitters were left oblivious. They faced challenges like rude kids and multiple sugar rushes due to bad dieting, there were bathroom issues and just regular kid stuff. The parents had no idea what they had just gotten into. But a driving factor that helped Charlie move on and stride forward is his son Ben that was apart of the 9 and who was for the first time, making friends with new people.
But as the Daddy Day Care industry grew, the Chapman Acadamy reduced in their school population and began to take notice on their new competition. Immediately sending a Child Service agent to the house to inspect, new obstacles were being faced with the business, but they were overcome the first time around by Charlie and Phil. Their first hard challenge was having to find the third “daddy” after their 5:1 ratio was exceeded. The new applicant happens to be an ex-coworker of Charlie, Marvin, who has been taught to be really good with kids. Marvin agrees to join after seeing one of the kids’ mom, and for Marvin, it was love at first sight.
After having found their third partner, the daycare business gets more organized and they plan exciting field trips and show and tell days and exciting foods that attract a lot more people into their business which lowers the numbers for the Chapman Acadamy and that’s when they administrator Mrs. Harridan took action once again by sending the Child Service who tells them that their space is to small for the number of children they have in the business.
Since the news, their first attempt was to have a fundraiser in the community by hosting a carnival at a park with lots of activities like food, animals, music, and many more, because it was so big, Mrs. Harridan and her assistant Jenny go to ruin the fun by letting escape the goats, ruining the food, unplugging the bouncy house and turning on the sprinklers. The amount of money gained from it didn’t “even dent” their goals.
Charlie was in a tough position and he just so happened to get a call back from his old job that they were looking for someone like him in the new successful department and on top of that, Mrs. Harridan gave him an offer that his son could go to Chapman for whatever price he says. When Charlie looked at the numbers, things could not get better and he accepted the offer and him and Phil got their old job, with both kids at Chapman.
Once at the job, Charlie realized that what he did was wrong by leaving all of the kids off, so after a wake up call with memories of his own kids, on his first day Phil and Marvin and Charlie get back together and eventually have the sufficient amount of money to get a bigger place and everyone ends up happy but Mrs. Harridan who gets out of business.
REVIEW: My review of this movie was a solid 5/10 because they face challenges that we see the answer to, to fast. We don’t get to see them actually progress, we just see them jump to the resolution after a problem. But overall the moral of the story is to never put unimportant things like a job over loved one like family. The kids got to grow too with themselves. Some learned to read, some learned manners, some got potty trained. And to some seeing that growth outweighs the importance of anything else that could happen. Some also in the movie fall in love with their partner. The movie could improve if they would show their challenges more and we saw how they grew together.
5/10
