A crass, crude, and overly-familiar comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep.

| Aug 16, 2007

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.

| Sep 26, 2005

Fails on both an emotional and comedic level.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Diesel seems to talk at half-speed most of the time, and doesn't exactly have a natural comic sensibility, but he works hard with a cast of great kids.

| May 13, 2005

Abysmal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2005

There is no pleasure, guilty or otherwise, to be found in The Pacifier.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2005

[An] unintentional fascist satire.

| Mar 9, 2005

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.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 9, 2005

Cookie-cutter Navy-S.E.A.L .-as-babysitter comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 8, 2005

It's so awful. This reminds me, every once in a while on television they'll show failed sitcom pilots that never got picked up by the networks, and this has the feel of something like that.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2005

[Director Shankman] walks the line between wholesome and wacky and ends up with the cinematic equivalent of a minivan.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2005

Of course it's a PG movie, but do family audiences deserve stupid and trite stories?

| Mar 4, 2005

The Pacifier is low on Diesel fuel, though probably amusing enough if you're part of the intended demographic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

[Diesel's] funnier here than he was in The Chronicles of Riddick, and that one wasn't even billed as a comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

The concept that sort of worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a cringe-inducing misfire for Vin Diesel in this sloppy mess of a family film that's neither cute nor funny.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

A formulaic Disney comedy.

| Mar 4, 2005

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 | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2005

An abysmal comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Has sufficient mayhem to please Diesel's action fans while allowing the star to reach out to family audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2005