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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 10038
Released: June 28, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.47 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Walt Disney Pictures presents action hero Vin Diesel (XXX, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) in a fast-paced comedy smash from the director of BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE! Lt. Shane Wolfe (Diesel) is a tough-as-nails Navy S.E.A.L. who has controlled military operations in every corner of the globe. Now the ultimate test comes when he's assigned to protect the home front ... as in a house loaded with five out-of-control kids! But even when he trades combat gear for diapers and juice boxes, it's not just a babysitting job -- it's an adventure!
Description of The Pacifier (Widescreen Edition):
Vin Diesel is game to soften his tough-guy image in The Pacifier, in which he plays hot-shot Navy S.E.A.L. Shane Wolfe, whose latest mission goes awry when the scientist he's sent to rescue is popped off before he can tell Wolfe where he's hidden some Top Secret software something-or-other. Before you can say Kindergarten Cop, Wolfe is assigned guard duty at the scientist's family home, where he's left with some unruly kids when the widow (Faith Ford) takes off to Switzerland to claim her hubby's safety deposit box under the guidance of Wolfe's superior officer. The trouble with this paint-by-numbers fish-out-of-water kiddie comedy is that Diesel himself is a fish out of water in the movie--he's no comic and is far funnier when he's unintentionally spoofing macho heroics in The Chronicles of Riddick. The film limply throws everything it can at you, including the idea of Wolfe directing a community theater production of The Sound of Music, but is just biding its time until the predictable action climax and hugs-all-around denouement. Vin doesn't look embarrassed, but the supporting cast sure does, especially Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett as a bombastic vice principal and Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham as Garrett's boss and Diesel's sudden love interest.--Steve Wiecking
The Pacifier (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Vin Diesel is the most EPIC actor of my generation 
2008-08-29 - Pound for Pound, Vin Diesel is the best actor in Hollywood. With such critical acclaim from Fast and Furious, Chronicles of Riddick 1,2, &3...11, Saving Private Ryan (Caparzo, the guy who gets taken out by a sniper. He is without question very EPIC and if you didnt pick up the sarcasm, you probably wont enjoy his finer works in A Man Apart, XXX, and Boiler Room. But if you enjoy Lady in the Water, you'll enjoy Vin's entire catalogue.
Good Quality Family Entertainment 
2008-04-24 - In an age when most of what's on television is not worth watching, we've turned to buying DVD's and creating our own television programing. "The Pacifer" was a great addition to our library. It is one film we will definitely watch several times.
Kindergarten Copy 
2008-03-07 - I don't understand Vin Diesel. He starts off as a goofy-looking breakdancer, builds up muscles and a glass-swallowing voice, becomes an action-flick superstar, and then he makes this flaming pile of cow flop. What? He couldn't have made another Riddick movie? Fast and the Furious 12 not looking like a good career move? The Pacifier surely wasn't a better option.
Anyway, much like Arnold Schwarzanegger doing "Kindergarten Cop", Sly Stallone doing "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot", and Pacino doing "Scent of a Woman", Vin Diesel sold his acting sole for the almighty dollar.
Now his grisled voice makes him sound less like a tough guy, and more like a someone from Dateline's "To Catch A Predator". Great.
I'm not even sure I watched the entire movie because the sheer vapid nature and banality of this movie caused me to go into a boredom-coma. What I did catch, however, was the fact that Diesel plays a former Navy Seal who is assigned to protect some spoiled brats who deserve a beating. It's nothing but Kindergarten Cop in a different setting, complete with the military order shouting and incredibly corny lines meant to make slow children and awkwardly unaware foreigners laugh. The other thing I noticed was that Vin Diesel is incredibly unfunny, and has probably never told a successful joke in his life. In each scene he appeared to be looking for a car to race, a Russian terrorist to attack, or someone to beat-up.
If you like this movie, please never recommend a movie to me.
Clod hopper movie 
2008-02-03 - I saw the DVD of THE PACIFIER recently. This is the vehicle starring Vin Diesel as a baby sitter/Navy seal/talent director...This is also one of the films that makes no sense if you start asking questions about it, or wonder how one sequence led to another. I can't fault the actor too much. He had been out of a job, presumably, for requesting too much money, and this Jackie Chan reject for Disney was a step up. Let's see--as a Navy Seal, he is directly involved in the death of a man who is important to National Security. As a result, he has to take care of the guy's kids, while Mom has to search a bank vault in Switzerland...
And the more you continue to dig into the plot, the less sense it makes. The film was okay on the big screen. One of a series of loud cinematic explosions with a paper thin set of characters. Transferred to the home screen (19 inches), it seems like a blip.
There's a duck in this movie. I suspect if there was a dog, there would be some confusion with the lead. Vin Diesel still looks like a shar pei with all the wrinkles removed.
DVD extras aren't much either.
a great comedy
2007-10-20 - these is a really funny movie, i would recommend, and its a great fun family film
