Daddy Day Care
- Szczegóły
- Nadrzędna kategoria: Filmy
- Kategoria: Recenzje filmowe z Guardiana
Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "Guardian"
You will need the strongest of sick bags handy for this cynical, sucrose family comedy from which anything remotely funny and touching in the script has been assiduously weeded out at a very early stage.
Eddie Murphy stars as an advertising executive, who is, but of course, failing to spend enough time with his four-year-old son, a doe-eyed little cutester on whom I wanted to empty a canister of napalm.
Inscrutable Dame Fortune decrees that Eddie should get fired, along with fat colleague and buddy Jeff Garlin - who plays the same sort of part, only much more amusingly, in the Larry David TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm - and the pair of them decide to set up a day care centre for kids, in direct competition to a heartless, super-competitive academy run by Miss Gwyneth Harridan (Angelica Huston). Steve Zahn is here too, playing a wacky Trekker from the mail room who agrees to help out - further squandering his classy reputation with another high-heaven-stinker of a movie.
Everything has been tested and machine-tooled so as not to be in the slightest bit edgy or tricky, and Murphy's face is often a strange mask of humourlessness. All the more shaming when you think of his great voice work on Shrek and Disney's Mulan: he can do his act for a family audience, but the whole thing has been dumbed down and ickied up, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop - everyone involved believing that the simple juxtaposition of wised-up tough guy and kids is simply adorable on its own.
VOCABULARY:
adorable - uroczy
assiduously - pracowicie, wytrwale
to decree - zadekretować, zarządzić, zadecydować
doe-eyed - o oczach łani
handy - poręczny
ickied up - made icky
icky - wstrętny, paskudny
inscrutable - niezbadany, nieodgadniony, tajemniczy
juxtaposition - zestawienie
remotely - odlegle
sick bags - tzw. torebki chorobowe (rozdawane np. w samolotach albo statkach, na wypadek torsji)
to squander - trwonić, marnować
sucrose - słodzony
wacky - stuknięty, głupkowaty
weed out - wyplenić
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