2005 · comedy · family · action
The Pacifier
Directed by Adam Shankman1h 35m2005
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.
Our read: The Pacifier (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · family · action entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How The Pacifier feels to watch.
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“You want a tough-guy babysits-kids family comedy with easy weekend energy.”
Skip it tonight — Broad slapstick, predictable arcs, or Vin Diesel in a tutu will grate on you.
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