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Critics Consensus: Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
Critic Consensus: Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
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Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.
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.
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.
A crass, crude, and overly-familiar comedy.
Though it does have a talented cast with occasionally charming moments, it's still bad, and brainless.
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.
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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The Pacifier sucked, it was boring, badly acted, and terrible action, and one of the worst films ever made.
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Embarassing
Hysterical. Vin Diesel played a fantastic nanny and it's a nice heartfelt film that will have you smiling from start to finish.
Vin Diesel doesn't manage to achieve maximum hulkage in this, but he follows the career of Arnold and gets in touch with a younger audience. It's a fun movie that does have it's corny moments, but most of the time it's Vin Diesel causing trouble and being mean to kids. What's really scary is when he becomes a caring and understanding person, this is uncharted territory for Vin Diesel. Somehow he manages to pull it off and save the day.
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