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| Director
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Adam Shankman |
| Starring
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Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow,
Max Thieriot, Brad Garrett |
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| The plot of
The Pacifier |
Disgraced
Navy S.E.A.L. John Summit (Diesel) is handed a
new assignment: protect the five Plummer kids
from enemies of their recently deceased father,
a former government scientist whose top-secret
experiment remains in the family home. |
| The Pacifier
Movie Review |
Reviewed by
Marrit Ingman :
I like Vin Diesel. I really do. He can be brusque and
warm; he’s got a slight lisp. He can breakdance.
There’s room for him in comedy. He seems sincere
even when he’s doing something risible, and this
Disney family farce has plenty of risible tasks for
him: pilot a jet ski in pursuit of "a group of
Serbian rebels"; wrestle with Kane in full madcap
mode as a Czech nanny; use baby powder, hula hoops,
and a toddler play-tunnel as weapons. Is it funny? Not
for a minute.
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Review By MaryAnn
Johanson :
So I'm sitting there in the dark with my little
reporter notebook, diligently taking notes and formulating
theses to support my contention that The Pacifier fails
as a film, and I think it was during a burst of abject
whimpering from the very famous critic sitting next
to me, whom I guarantee you've seen on TV, that I suddenly
and finally realized the futility of life, the ubiquitousness
of pain, and the infinite emptiness of the universe
that we puny humans on our puny planet in our puny corner
of the cosmos cannot hope to ameliorate. More..
Reviewed by JIM SLOTEK :
There are moments in The Pacifier -- the formulaic kidflick
that pairs up rock-abbed Vin Diesel with a bunch of
bratty children -- where I started to think it might
be a Hollywood movie within a Hollywood movie. It's
as if at some particularly lugubrious moment you expected
to hear the director exasperatedly yell "Cut!"
and one of the precocious child actors to say "I'm
sorry, but I just can't work with this man," and
stomp off on her little feet.
more..
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