There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.
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03/10/05
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The Pacifier (2005)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:5
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
Theatrical Release:Mar 4, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $113,006,880
Synopsis: Vin Diesel is great as a navy seal turned babysitter in this kid-friendly action comedy. A botched rescue mission (brimming with stunts) results in the death of a scientist and the hospitalization... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Faith Ford, Carol Kane
Director: Adam Shankman
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Reviews for The Pacifier
Top Critic[An] unintentional fascist satire.
03/09/05
Top CriticA 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.
03/09/05
Top CriticIt’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.
03/07/05
Top CriticOf course it's a PG movie, but do family audiences deserve stupid and trite stories?
03/04/05
Top CriticThe Pacifier is low on Diesel fuel, though probably amusing enough if you're part of the intended demographic.
03/04/05
Top Critic[Diesel's] funnier here than he was in The Chronicles of Riddick, and that one wasn't even billed as a comedy.
03/04/05
Top CriticA formulaic Disney comedy.
03/04/05
Top CriticMaking the audience wish they were seeing an old Hulk Hogan movie is simply sad.
03/04/05
Top CriticMakes last week's cinematic exploration of surrogate parenthood by an authority figure — Man of the House, with Tommy Lee Jones -- look like a Billy Wilder comedy in comparison.
03/04/05
Top CriticAn abysmal comedy.
03/04/05
Top CriticHas sufficient mayhem to please Diesel's action fans while allowing the star to reach out to family audiences.
03/04/05
Top CriticBlah comedy.
03/04/05
Top CriticThough [Diesel] has a definite, if somewhat oily, charisma, comedy really isn't his forte.
03/04/05
Top CriticVin Diesel is baby food in The Pacifier. He's strained peas, pureed plums and all manner of pabulum. So all older than 5 beware: This is a movie you'll likely want to spit up.
03/04/05
Top CriticThe Pacifier falls into the same category as Are We There Yet? which gave Ice Cube a similar baby-sitting gig with equally dreadful results.
03/04/05
Top CriticThe Pacifier represents a form of cruel, but actually very usual, punishment for anyone past the age of 7.
03/04/05
Top CriticThe Pacifier is one of those movies that jams together two ideas that in the end don't work.
03/04/05
Top CriticWithout doubt the worst film of the year so far, The Pacifier is actually painful to watch.
03/04/05
Top CriticThis premise is promising, but somehow the movie never really takes off.
03/04/05
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