Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 102
Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 27
Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 363,891
The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia -- in this family-friendly comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is a former Navy SEAL who was assigned to protect a scientist working on a top-secret defense project for the government. Despite Wolf's efforts, however, an assassin slipped past him and murdered the man he was guarding. The inventor's project is still being stored in his home, so Wolf has
PG, 1 hr. 35 min.
Mar 4, 2005 Wide
Jun 28, 2005
$113.0M
Buena Vista
All Critics (131) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (105) | DVD (29)
There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.
[An] unintentional fascist satire.
A yawn-by-numbers romper-room dud that is nevertheless shrewd enough to tweak its star, Vin Diesel, for becoming a joke in less time than it took him to become an action hero.
It's so awful. This reminds me, every once in a while on television they'll show failed sitcom pilots that never got picked up by the networks, and this has the feel of something like that.
Of course it's a PG movie, but do family audiences deserve stupid and trite stories?
The Pacifier is low on Diesel fuel, though probably amusing enough if you're part of the intended demographic.
A crass, crude, and overly-familiar comedy.
It might have been a good career move for Diesel, who cut his teeth on high-octane action, but the script needs a lift and the direction feels lackluster.
Diesel has amply shown his star presence already, and he may even have a flair for comedy (if Hulk Hogan did, why shouldn't he?), but he gets no chance to prove it here.
Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.
It's almost as if the writers got carried away with brainstorming all the funny things they could do with Vin Diesel's character.
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At one point, Diesel literally wades into a rancid sewer and emerges covered in feces, an image that sadly doubles as a metaphor for his career.
a nice, safe family film
Frankly, to call The Pacifier a "cookie cutter" movie is an insult to the folks who actually make cookie cutters.
The film doesn't succeed on any level.
I realize this is The Pacifier and not Vera Drake, but how this film strains credulity smacks of contempt for a paying audience
Children under the age of 12 and teenagers who never set foot in a library might get some cheap thrills out of this refuse.
Fails on both an emotional and comedic level.
The Pacifier sucked, it was boring, badly acted, and terrible action, and one of the worst films ever made.
March 5, 2011
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