The Pacifier provides passable, albeit predictable, family fare sure to please the kids without forcing their adult counterparts to whine like babies.
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03/04/05
The Pacifier (2005)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:26
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Childrens
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
Reviews for The Pacifier
Vin 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
The 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
Essentially the same move Schwarzenegger made with his supposedly family-friendly comedy Kindergarten Cop, only The Pacifier is even dumber and considerably more crass.
03/04/05
The Pacifier represents a form of cruel, but actually very usual, punishment for anyone past the age of 7.
03/04/05
The Pacifier is one of those movies that jams together two ideas that in the end don't work.
03/04/05
Without 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
Top CriticThe movie plays like it was cobbled together from sheetrock and carpet tacks, this makes The Pacifier just worth your children's time, and hardly worth yours.
03/04/05
Pacifiers are made to appease toddlers, but for the movie version, even that may be a stretch.
03/04/05
Diesel's stern, stubbly demeanor and leaden performance make [Tommy Lee] Jones look like Jim Carrey.
03/04/05
Even the most basic sit-com slapstick needs a story!
03/04/05
This cross between Kindergarten Cop and Uncle Buck is neither as bad nor as inventive as it could have been. It's not a 180 for Diesel, but more like a 120.
03/04/05
The tinny dialogue of the clumsy screenplay stumbles over the simplest moments of exposition and revelation and Adam Shankman's anonymous direction is plodding at best...
03/04/05
As stinky as the diapers star Vin Diesel constantly keeps sticking his hands in.
03/04/05
The kind of movie that makes diaper duty look like an appealing alternative.
03/04/05
Diesel isn't a terrible actor, but his choice of projects is about as apt as his choice of stage names. What, were Mack O'Kerosene and Buck Unleaded already taken?
03/04/05
[B]rought me... to a low during which I was actually calculating the precise moment in which [this] crossed the line into categorical awfulness...
03/04/05
resolutely sunny and smiley-faced... Next to this, 'The Brady Bunch' looks like 'Long Day's Journey into Night.'
03/04/05
Recycled material through and through, and what it offers in the affability of its star is countered with a mean streak of humiliation passed off as humor.
03/03/05
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