Daddy Day Camp (Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B Extras: D Film: D
A new
rule on a list on how to stop really, really bad movies from being made should
include not making sequels to films starring Jim Carrey and/or Eddie Murphy,
especially if the films were surprise hits, few people remember them and/or
they will not be showing up for the sequels.
Universal already learned this the hard way with mega-bomb Evan Almighty and Sony should have
known better with former actor Fred Savage directing Cuba Gooding, Jr. in Daddy Day Camp (2007) offering one of
the worst films of the year.
The Oscar
winner collects yet another paycheck for doing nothing much in material far
below him as he and s0ome other fathers run Camp Driftwood into the
ground. Unfortunately, the screenplay
beat them to it. Possibly the anti-Stripes, this 89 minutes of torture
seems more like Hostel than a
children’s film in its strained embarrassment of a would-be film. In real life, this should have been straight
to video, but the studio decided to waste celluloid to issue it and it bombed
then, should bomb now and if someone greenlights a third film, should be banned
from the industry forever!
The
portrayal of the children are shrill and the acting from them here is so
annoying, even W. C. Fields could have survived it, but that Gooding lowers
himself to do the same tired “here is my funny face” performance is
astoundingly bad. What is he trying to
do, get the Academy to revoke his Oscar?
Skip this
like a plague!
The 1080p
1.85 X 1 image is also lame, shot by Geno Salvatori with overexposure and Video
White issues that actually degrade the great outdoors. I could imagine how a DVD would have problems
with this picture if the Blu-ray is having issues, but the results are really bad
and ill advised. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1
mix is also a waste of high fidelity audio as the film’s mono-like sound mix is
that dead or punctuated by sweetened sounds so annoying that you should be
careful how loud you play this one to begin with. The combination is one of the poorest in
Blu-ray to date.
Extras
include a lame quiz and lamer making of program.
- Nicholas Sheffo
