The Pacifier

The Pacifier (2005)

  • 20% of critics liked it
    (128 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (363,891 ratings)

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… More

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Mar 4, 2005 Wide
Buena Vista

Critic Reviews

  • Nigel Floyd, Time Out New York

    Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.

  • Laura Sinagra, Village Voice

    [An] unintentional fascist satire.

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    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.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jim C


    The Pacifier sucked, it was boring, badly acted, and terrible action, and one of the worst films ever made.

  • Liam G


    Embarassing

  • Bethany M


    Hysterical. Vin Diesel played a fantastic nanny and it's a nice heartfelt film that will have you smiling from start to finish.

  • Conner R


    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… More

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