whats happening with eddie Murphy???

I get this movie, the kid peeing all over the bathroom. but something is about the kid in the superhero costumes. it resembles Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, but why does he wear it?

According to Adam, "Daddy Day Care trailer looks AWESOME."

Ookaayy, that's scary. Wait a minute, you must be Eddie's agent right? I don't know about you guys, but I don't see any "awesomeness" whatsoever in Daddy Day Care. All I see are a bunch of kids going nuts whom probably took only one take to shoot. Personally I think Eddie is half to blame. I mean come on Pluto Nash? Did he say to himself, yes, this sounds like a blockbuster hit! Relate him to Travolta since Travolta also made a bunch of crappy movies right after Pulp Fiction.

The trailer for this movie is horribly made, and this movie looks really stupid. Eddie Murphy is not a bad actor necessairly, he has just not been in a good movie in a while to show off his acting ability.



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What, are you some sort of prude? "REAL" acting from Mr. Murphy?!

He hasn't just softened his image. He's become less funny. Take my advice and skip this. See "Shrek" if you're looking for a PG movie starring Eddie Murphy so bad. I guarantee that will be 20 times better than this.

Mono sound forever!

I just have to say, that this movie is best viewed by people who work in the childcare profession. I love the fact that the state inspector comes almost every day. That's exactly how it feels at the daycare I work at. But even though most of the population doesn't work at a daycare, I still recommend it, but it's better for pre-school teachers.

"It's a work in progress, but, hey, we need ushers!" ~Monster's Inc.

I too usually pass up Eddie Murphy's movies on the shelves at Blockbuster because of the language and other objectionable material (Maybe others like that stuff - it's their right - I don't like it and that's my right too.) But I was able to bring this movie home and we all had a good time watching it. Of course crotchkicking is just not funny (was it ever?), but there were a lot of other scenes that actually were funny. Being a star trek viewer too, I found a lot of humor in that aspect of the film too. It's a good family movie which will never win Eddie any awards but I doubt that's what it set out to do.

I'll take "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Eddie Murphy RAW" over "the nutty professor" any day of the week, get off you high horse and loosen up a little, what are you, 96 years old or something?

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I for one think that Eddie needs to have more fans than critics. Here is a man who was one of the first to reach the billion and two billion dollar mark on worldwide releases. This is the man that many of us had to sneak to watch because our parents thought he was to vulgar (they were right, now we are just as vulgar). This is the man that introduced us to some of the biggest black comediens today. But he suffers from SNL syndrome. Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd nver let there shtick grow to different kinds of comedy. Same for Dana Carvey, John Lovitz, Kevin Neland, and Jan Hooks. But Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, and Adam Sandler all have amazing careers, using the same shtick as before, its just that we love to see them do the same things. Eddie, Mike and Adam do add new twist every time. David Spade, Garret Morris, and Rob Schnieder don't. How Eddie wins is cable and broadcast veiwing of his films. Sometimes what is wrong is that a movie is better fitted for Pan and Scan than widescreen. Take any Eddie Murphy movie that has been released since the coming of Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, or Mike Myers. Its the same thing that Eddie and Bill Murray (who is becoming a chameleon) and Steve Martin did to Richard Pryor and the comedy greats of the seventies... they raised the bar on comedy. It will take Eddie evolving into a pseudo dramatic actor (Robin Williams, Robert Downey, Jr) and move past his comedy back groud and play a retarded slave, or become the new Carey Grant the romantic comedy man.

I think that many of Eddie's 90's films were quite funny, just as Arnold's action stock faded in the hyperspeed neo kungfu/gunfight flicks, we still stop to watch one if its on HBO.

Think about this, Eddie released Nutty Professor the same year Jim released Cable Guy. The next year Eddie had Metro, Jim had Liar, Liar. 1998: Eddie had Dr. Dolittle and Holy Man, Jim had the Truman Show. In 1999 we had Life and Bowfinger from Eddie, Jim was The Man on the Moon. Next Eddie brought us the Klumps, while Jim had Me myself & Irene and the Grinch. In just those years there was an up and down for both, box office wise, but for me a lover of comedies this was a great output. Jim only released one more movie after that. Until Bruce that is, Eddie released five, not countiing Daddy Daycare. This is just from the two that are the best in the business.

I have to close thing at some point... i guess what i am trying to say is, stop griping about Eddie's box office or lack of profanities, instead watch a holy man or Bowfinger on a night when you are feeling down, i promise you will have sore cheeks from all the grinning, its a far cry from all the gut laughs we remember, but funny is still funny.

HE DOES THESE MOVIES FOR MONEY, DOY!

Ok, ok, i concede, i'm sorry about that, i was underslept and moody. So i'm sorry.

As a parent I'm thankful that someone...anyone...is making an effort to entertain my youngsters without the obligatory sex, violence and non-stop bad language. The stuff I enjoyed as a kid surely seemed bad to my parents. I even wonder what the heck I was thinking! ;-)

Today I enjoy the no-brainers and simpletons since that's all I'm allowed to watch for the next 10 years or so. I give Eddie credit for trying a different route and giving options for all age groups. With all of the high-tech effects these days, can you imagine how difficult it would be to make a clean, non-superhuman movie these days?