Perfectly adorable

Brilliant and touching

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is a movie from my childhood. Watching it now again brings back good memories. The movie is pretty funny with VIn Diesel playing his clumsy role in the best way possible, the kids are acting pretty well, altho the ending along some other scenes throughout the movie are typical american cringe movie sequences. All in all, this is a typical lazy Sunday night movie for you and your family, nothing gore, sexual or offensive in any means.

This is a remake of Uncle Buck. No one seems to get that mostly because of the back story which encompasses all of the first five minutes and last two minutes of the film. Everything in the middle is sometimes scene for scene a remake of Uncle Buck, particularly when he goes to the school to meet the principal because the kids are having problems in school. There's even a very subtle connection they expanded in this film as the vice principal in Uncle Buck was a Navy vet and in this film the principal is the Navy vet. The only thing they switched is that in both films the vice principal was an antagonist but in this film (because Diesel's character is also Navy, the vet becomes a love interest). Ultimately the rowdy older sister who hated him the most becomes the one who loves him the most and they're all best of friends by the time the parents return.

The Pacifier is directed by Adam Shankman and written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant. It stars Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Faith Ford, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot, Morgan York, Carol Kane, and Brad Garrett. Out of Walt Disney Pictures, the plot sees Diesel as U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Shane Wolfe, who is assigned to protect the Plummer family after they lost their scientist father during Wolfe's last mission. There's also the small matter of locating some top secret technology the father had been working on. But first Shane has to deal with controlling five children...So it's Vin Diesel's turn to be the tough guy willing to send himself up in the name of family entertainment. Falling in alongside the likes of Kindergarten Cop (Schwarzenegger) and Mr. Nanny (Hulk Hogan), Diesel's movie holds absolutely no surprises, more so given that it is after all a Disney production. While the critics inevitably gave it a good kicking whilst scoffing at the big bucks it made at the box office ($100 million plus in profit). I guess the big question to ask is just what do you expect from a movie such as this? With its formula and premise clearly not setting out to bend the family comedy rules? OK, perhaps the film lacks a multitude of belly laughs, and the direction is by the numbers 101, but it actually does exactly what it says on the tin.Diesel dose send himself up, while also kicking some butt along the way. The kids are the requisite of adorable or bratish, there's potential romance and there's even a comedy bonus in the form of Garrett's cringe inducing turn as power crazy Vice Principal Dwayne Murney. Hey we even have a link to The Sound of Music in the story, while the soundtrack, although sparse, is perky and witty. The acting around Diesel is variable, but this is his movie, and most of the fun is garnered from watching him peel away the layers of his macho image. You may have to be the kind of person who laughs at dirty nappy jokes, or wish to see Vin jump in to a sewer, but this is still decent family fun.A film made to tickle the kiddies and put a smile on the faces of the adults. With that in mind, it's job done. 7/10

The Pacifier is a great family film that is filled with action and adventure. When i saw the bad reviews and comments, i thought it was gonna be terrible but it wasn't that bad. Some parts had its flaws but it was mostly entertaining and fun. Vin Diesel as the lead role was pretty good. A funny part in the movie is when Shane was wrestling with the vice-principal. It was also cool when the robbers broke into the children's house then Vin Diesel (Shane Wolfe) started fighting them and using cool techniques. The fight scenes were cool. I also like the part near the end when Shane had to do that panda dance to unlock the code to get that device. That was pretty sick. It was one of the better scenes in the movie This movie is worth checking out and is surprising at times