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.
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,
9 Mar 2005
rotten:
[An] unintentional fascist satire.
– Laura Sinagra,
Village Voice,
9 Mar 2005
rotten:
There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar 2005
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,
26 Sep 2005
rotten:
Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.