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It has to be better than those obnoxious Hanes commercials.

Dan Krovich: Daddy Day Camp stars Oscar®-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. and is directed by Kevin Arnold.

David Mumpower: As much as I love Wonder Years, I cannot bring myself to root for little Kevin's directorial debut to do well. Here's my question. How is the Daddy Day Care crew too expensive for a sequel? I can understand if they have to ditch Eddie Murphy, but what about Jeff Garlin and Steve Zahn? Frankly, this title needs an "Ernest Goes to..." before the rest of the title to complete the effect.

Marty Doskins: I think they probably could've made around $100 million like last time if they had Murphy. He probably would've been worth the investment.

Les Winan: Plus, all the kids in the day camp are his. HEYO!

Dan Krovich: I just realized that they went from a Best Supporting Actor nominee to a Best Supporting Actor winner, so this is an upgrade, right?

Shane Jenkins: I read he couldn't do this because he was busy with Norbit, and not because of some new-found desire to appear in a "quality motion picture" or anything.

David Mumpower: Since Cuba Gooding Jr. was in Norbit, also, I question that reporter's accuracy.

Jim Van Nest: This has nothing to do with Cuba or Daddy Day Camp for that matter...but I'm amazed at how one of the dirtiest comedians to ever hit the stage is now a fixture in several of my kids favorite movies. Say what you want about Eddie and the quality of his movies...I still think it's amazing that he's made himself a pretty bankable family film star.

The what in the who now?

Dan Krovich: Is Skinwalkers still coming out August 10th? There's still time to change the release date again. It looks like a generic horror movie to me. We're starting to hit the late summer doldrums.

David Mumpower: We always discuss the business practice of dumping lousy movies during the August release period. Skinwalkers is Exhibit A of this. It's hard enough to sell a horror film right now, but this situation is even worse. It's like Blood and Chocolate II: Revenge of the Lycanthropes! Given that Blood and Chocolate made $3.5 million domestically, well....

Shane Jenkins: The preview reminded me of (and therefore made me re-conscious of) that Lou Diamond Phillips movie Bats, which is about as unforgivable as the Cruciatus Curse. There should be a filmmaker Azkaban for such things.

Reagen Sulewski: This isn't a movie about the sex trade?

David Mumpower: Skinwalking is an odd fetish, to be sure.

Tony Kollath: I could have sworn at three different points this year, this movie had already been released.

Tim Briody: I was going to completely dismiss this, then I found out that one of the three writers (which is an upset, I figured there would be at least 12) credited is James Roday, star of Psych, my favorite show on television right now. He's also contributed to a couple brilliant episodes of that show, so for me it goes from "wouldn't touch with a 100-foot pole" to "if it's on cable at 2 a.m. and I've seen all the infomercials already."

David Mumpower: The last film I recall being moved this often was Mindhunters. It earned $4.4 million. Before that, the most recent example was Prozac Nation, the Elizabeth Wurtzel adaptation. That one never ever received theatrical release. And the one before that was James Spader's Supernova, which earned $14.2 million against a $60 million budget. Stating the obvious, the odds are pretty far stacked against Skinwalkers.

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