If you took My Spy , Daddy Day Care and Spy Kids and put them in a blender, you might end up with something close to Playdate .

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But somehow, the film is worse than all three of those earlier movies.

From director Luke Greenfield (who uses a clip from his own earlier film, The Girl Next Door , at one point in this film) and writer Neil Goldman ( Scrubs , Shrinking ), Playdate sees out-of-his-depth new stepdad Brian (Kevin James, Hitch ) end up taking his kid Lucas (Benjamin Pajak, The Life of Chuck ) to hang out with a father-and-son they meet at the park.

But th

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