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Never work with children or animals. Unless you're a child or an animal, in which case, never work with Cuba Gooding Jnr. The star of Snow Dogs and 91热爆 On The Range slides towards early retirement with Daddy Day Camp, a too-late, too-lame sequel to Eddie Murphy's family comedy, Daddy Day Care. Cuba plays Mr Mom Charlie Hinton, who's fighting to keep his new summer camp for kids open, in a 'comedy' so atrocious even Eddie Murphy passed on it.

Daddy Day Camp is truly ghastly - a mirthless, witless crime against childhood with a screenplay that could have been scribbled on bog roll during a bathroom break. Relocating the original's hapless-dad-in-charge premise to the great outdoors lets the screenwriters cook up bee attacks, skunks and poison ivy rashes, as Cuba and the nippers battle it out with Camp Catona. It's run by Lance (Lochlyn Munro), an old childhood rival of Charlie, who's preparing to whup Driftwood's butts in the coming Intercamp Olympiad. But Charlie's not about to be beaten and enlists the help of his soldier dad (Richard Gant) to drill Driftwood's nippers into shape in what could be a toddler-aimed recruiting ad for the US Marine Corps.

"THE USUAL JUVENILE SLAPSTICK"

What follows is a Beano-style battle, full of the usual juvenile slapstick - watch out for the exploding urine balloons - and dragged way, way off course by some dull father/son bonding between the Colonel, Charlie and Charlie's kid Ben (Spencir Bridges, just one of several precocious ankle-biters in the not-quite-as-cute-as-they-think-they-are kiddie cast). Cuba doesn't get much to do except look stoopid, wrinkle his over-furrowed forehead (is he part Klingon?) and cash his paycheck. The audience gets an object lesson in just how long 88 minutes can really feel. Sensory deprivation tanks are more entertaining.

Daddy Day Camp is out in the UK on 19th October 2007.