

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Acting
Steve Zahn's unhinged Marvin is secretly the MVP performance.
Practical Effects
Pre-digital child chaos; real sticky hands, real destruction.
Writing
Chapman brothers' script has genuine structural bones under the silliness.

Director
Steve Carr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during a brief 2000s wave of 'dads in over their heads' comedies, this accidentally captures post-dot-com economic anxiety before the 2008 crash made it mainstream.
The child actors were apparently so unprofessional that Eddie Murphy later joked he understood why some animals eat their young.