Rotten
Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out New York
The Pacifier
Welcome to the infantry.
2005 · 1h 35m · PG
Action, Comedy, Family
Directed by
Adam Shankman
,
Scott Thompson
,
Gary Scott Thompson
Overview
Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.
Director and cast
- Adam Shankman Director
- Scott Thompson Director
- Gary Scott Thompson Director
- Vin Diesel as Shane Wolf
- Lauren Graham as Principal Claire Fletcher
- Faith Ford as Julie Plummer
- Brittany Snow as Zoe Plummer
- Max Thieriot as Seth Plummer
- Carol Kane as Helga
- Chris Potter as Bill Fawcett
- Tate Donovan as Howard Plummer
- Brad Garrett as Dwayne Murney
- Morgan York Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
21%
Tomatometer
Rotten
At one point, Diesel literally wades into a rancid sewer and emerges covered in feces, an image that sadly doubles as a metaphor for his career.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
[An] unintentional fascist satire.
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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