The Pacifier (2005)

Really Surprised!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Recently I have found it difficult to find really good family films, and then I find a batch. I found this via the Pitch Perfect features, which I can watch over and over again. I rate that the best for several actors and it has gotten me purchasing a few disks of other work, just because. As an example of early Brittany Snow I have to rate this high. She was good in John Tucker (2006) and this is just as memorable, for me. Both amazingly fun films. If you rate this too, consider watching The Spy Next Door (2010). A similar story that gets a lot of really bad IMDb reviews, but a lot of really good ones too. I rate it even higher than this, though according to some you need the mental age of less than 12 to appreciate either. Such stories usually rate low at IMDb. Others in the amazing batch were Home Alone (1990) and Sky High (2005), which I rate as almost as good. The Pacifier: IMDb rating 5.5, 17.9% rate it as eight or nine or ten.The Spy Next Door: IMDb rating 5.4, 15.1% rate it as eight or nine or ten. Home Alone: IMDb rating 7.5, 52% rate it as eight or nine or ten.Sky High: IMDb rating 6.2, 25.9% rate it as eight or nine or ten.

The Pacifier is a 2005 film from Walt Disney Pictures and stars Vin Diesel from Fast & The Furious franchise,Morgan York from Cheaper By The Dozen,Brittany Snow from John Tucker Must Die,Laura Graham from Gilmore Girls.Brad Garret from Night & The Museum and Tangled.Its about this Navy Seal marine called Shane Wolfe(Diesel)who rescues a man(played by Tate Donovan who voiced Hercules in the same name as the film)who is a family man who gets killed by these bad guys. So Wolfe is sent to take care of the deceased man's family (The Plummers) to protect them from the bad guys who are after a device called The Ghost(which is a chip).But who are the bad guys and will Wolfe be able to protect The Plummers from harm?Overall it was a nice film for the whole family to enjoy and even though I'm a single 20 something year old who loves watching family movies but hey I love Disney movies and it was nice to see Vin Diesel star in a movie that wasn't an action packed flick with blown up cars;even though this movie had A lot of action packed sequences too. My final verdict is this ignore the critics and just either rent it out or buy it(or if its on TV record it like me as it was on TV this morning and I recorded it on VHS as it is very hard to get this on DVD anywhere where I'm from) so yeah watch it and see what you think of it.7 out of 10.

I probably saw a trailer or two for this film during its cinema release time, and naturally I thought it looked terrible, but I watched to confirm that, from director Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember, Bedtime Stories). Basically Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is the highly trained and expert US Navy Seal who causes the accidental failure of a mission, and to make up for it he is set to be an uncover agent. The man involved in the failed mission, Howard Plummer (Tate Donovan), was killed in action, and his family are now in danger as the enemy is looking for the details of a secret project called GHOST, which he has in a safe deposit box. So Shane's mission is to look after the family, but the widowed mother Julie (Faith Ford) is out of the house a lot, leaving him on his own to keep an eye on the five children: Zoe (Brittany Snow), Seth (Max Thieriot), Lulu (Morgan York), Peter (twins Logan and Keegan Hoover), and Baby Tyler (twins Bo and Luke Vink). For a long while Shane finds it very hard to cope with the needs of the youths in the house, and he tries to lay down the rules like he would in the Navy, but it does not all seem to sink in with the troublesome kids. Slowly though they do learn to behave a bit more, and they start to like their "babysitter", and there only comes the low point when his time is coming to an end and the danger is possibly lessened. Of course the danger is not over, the family are tied up and gagged while the bad guys, including Shane's own commander Capt. Bill Fawcett (Chris Potter), look for the safe deposit box containing the GHOST details, but Shane saves the day, stops them, he kisses his love interest, Principal Claire Fletcher (Evan Almighty's Lauren Graham), and Shane says his goodbyes, but not before seeing a family play. Also starring Carol Kane as Helga and A Bug's Life's Brad Garrett as Vice Principal Dwayne Murney. This was not long after the awful film The Chronicles of Riddick, so Diesel was trying to cash in on the younger audience market, and unfortunately he does not completely pull it off, it is pretty much a mix of Daddy Day Care and Man of the House, only with a trained professional, and less but naturally irritating children, it is not very original, it is not very funny, and it is hardly worth watching at all, a silly family action comedy. Adequate!

You can't always listen to critics. Sometime's you have to see for yourself. The Pacifier is a delightful family film and quite funny too. Don't get me wrong it's far from perfect. But at least it's decent enough to kill some time with your family.Before watching this movie i knew for a fact it wasn't going to be perfect, or even brilliant. I though it would be a typical family movie with one or two laughs every now and then. Was i right? Not really. If your watching this on your own, good luck. You may find some pacific scenes quite original and cool but you may be a bit let down. But if your watching this with kid's it will be more enjoyable. Because your kid's will be happy with it and then you would too.The casting was OK. nothing brilliant but decent. Vin Diesel obviously stand's out here. And yes his role as a navy marine coming to take care of some kid's with a unknown mystery of a tape going on in the house. Suit's him perfectly. So don't listen to people that say's it the role wasn't for him. In fact if it wasn't for him, many of you people here would'nt be reading this or attempting to see this film. He was the main cause to the pacifier success.Even though some bit's were quite lame and weird. The Pacifier is an amazing family film full with laughs,action and a twist. Go see it with your kid's!