The Pacifier: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 130 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

25

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ned Martel New York Times (Top Critic)

60

Disney's new family flick is chipper and occasionally clever as it sends up the high-tech know-how required by 21st-century parents.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

The Pacifier is low on Diesel fuel, though probably amusing enough if you're part of the intended demographic.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Of course it's a PG movie, but do family audiences deserve stupid and trite stories?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

The movie plays like it was cobbled together from sheetrock and carpet tacks, this makes The Pacifier just worth your children's time, and hardly worth yours.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Laura Sinagra Village Voice (Top Critic)

[An] unintentional fascist satire.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

25

An abysmal comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

25

Blah comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

17

A comic train wreck consisting of limp dialogue, predictable plot twists and elaborate sight gags that fall flat.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

38

The Pacifier is one of those movies that jams together two ideas that in the end don't work.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

This premise is promising, but somehow the movie never really takes off.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

The Pacifier is cheerful but mind-numbing.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

This moderately amusing family comedy is one of those movies that is better if you don't think about it.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

17

Vin Diesel is baby food in The Pacifier. He's strained peas, pureed plums and all manner of pabulum. So all older than 5 beware: This is a movie you'll likely want to spit up.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

Pacifiers are made to appease toddlers, but for the movie version, even that may be a stretch.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

A truly gag-worthy comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Makes last week's cinematic exploration of surrogate parenthood by an authority figure - Man of the House, with Tommy Lee Jones -- look like a Billy Wilder comedy in comparison.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

20

The director of Bringing Down the House and the writer and co-creator of Reno 911! fail to find anything funny outside of the diaper pail.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

[Diesel's] funnier here than he was in The Chronicles of Riddick, and that one wasn't even billed as a comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

Though [Diesel] has a definite, if somewhat oily, charisma, comedy really isn't his forte.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

Vin Diesel is better than the material, but, no matter how hard he tries, he can't rise above the puerile screenplay.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Jokes never build, stagings are clumsy, and the whole thing feels as if it were slapped together in haste.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

25

There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

Has sufficient mayhem to please Diesel's action fans while allowing the star to reach out to family audiences.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

20

A crass, crude, and overly-familiar comedy.
Full Review » 1 year ago