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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, Amazon.com
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Class act....,
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This review is from: The Pacifier [DVD] (DVD)
Vin Diesel in a cutesy movie? Sounds incongruous, but it works and works really well. I thought this was going to be another one of those comedies that the trailers turn out to be the only funny bits. Unlike most "comedies", the funnies last the length of the film and keep coming, right to the end. The producers seem to have gone all out to produce a film to please everybody - it's got decent action sequences, good comedy, it's kiddie friendly, there's even some romance in there if you like that sort of thing. This movie is definitely one you can stick in the DVD downstairs on a Sunday morning knowing the kids will be glued for the next hour or so.......Thoroughly recommended.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Takes real risks... brings off the whole thing marvellously,
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This review is from: The Pacifier [DVD] (DVD)
I liked this movie, but my younger kids adored it. That was the difference. We talked quite a lot about it both immediately after the movie, that we saw at the local multiplex, and some six months afterwards. The film certainly made a deep impression on MY kids, that is for sure.
Vin Diesel is actually perfect for the title role, and in fact his very clumsiness that has been observed here, far from being ineptitude, is in fact carrying the whole point. This is far from being a "cute" movie. It deals with terrible events in the life of a family; again, the loss of a parent (a common theme these days, "Land before time", etc), and Vin Diesel's best intentioned and often tremendously slapstick take on the whole thing works well at the kind of level that joyously takes you away from the pain. I think the guy in the role of marine becoming hard and love-at-any-cost parent is a wonderful thing, and as finely done as I have ever seen. But the undercurrent of the film - not obvious perhaps until you leave the cinema and it hits you some time later - is that Diesel's character in a way is hosting the Dad who we hardly see. He has been invisibly present throughout the film, and the family's love and coherence is a testimony to the integrity of this man, who has gone. The little dance for the small boy is the perfect vehicle for this rememberance. At this point I realised that this film was nothing more than a sincere and moving homage to fatherhood itself. You might well miss this; but the cinema was dead quiet at that point. And like "Uncle Buck", if you have the eyes to see it, this film holds a tremendous and warm message; a love letter addressed to anyone who is a daddy; very remarkable. I thoroughly recommend it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great film!,
This review is from: The Pacifier [DVD] (DVD)
my little boy really wanted this after watching it on television, hes so happy that i bought it for him. I could not find it in any shops!!!
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