HC Reviews

The Pacifier

Vin Diesel .... Shane Wolfe
Tate Donovan .... Howard Plummer
Faith Ford .... Julie Plummer
Brittany Snow .... Zoe Plummer (aka Red 1)
Max Thieriot .... Seth Plummer (aka Red 2)
Morgan York .... Lulu Plummer (aka Red 3)
Kegan and Logan Hoover .... Peter Plummer (aka Red 4)
Bo and Luke Vink .... Tyler (aka Red Baby)
Carol Kane .... Helga (aka Red Leader)

Lauren Graham .... Principal Claire Fletcher
Brad Garrett .... Vice Principal Murney

Chris Potter .... Capt. Bill Fawcett

Cute family film that's equal parts action and comedy.

Vin Diesel, going the way of Arnold, flexes his muscles in this family comedy as Shane Wolf, a Navy Seal ordered to protect the kids of a murdered scientisit while the Mother goes to Switzerland to get the contents of a safety deposit box which might contain information about whatever it is her husband was working.

The only thing that bugged me about this movie was that some of the stuff shown in the trailers isn't shown in the movie or is modified in some way.

Other than that, Vin's acting was pretty decent. He's not the greatest emoter but he's 5 steps above Keanu so that's something.

The kids are a pretty funny bunch, especially the youngest daughter. The scenes with her and her "Firefly" troop are especially hilarious.

Go see it at a matinee with your family. You'll enjoy it.

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And the reason this movie is getting 4 halos, rather than 3, is because of the spoiler below, which you can read at your own risk.

SPOILER BELOW!!! Don't read on if you don't want to know what happens in this movie or a couple others!!

You know how my biggest movie pet peeve is the throw away line that's only in the movie to help out later on down the line? In The Grudge, they show SMG's boyfriend light up one cigarette so that you get that he smokes and then she's able to use his lighter in the end. Yet in any other scene he's in, he never smokes. In Thunderbirds the dad asks his son why he's not wearing his retainer, and the retainer becomes a soldering instrument later on. But you never se the kid wear the retainer before the dad asked about it and you never see the kid put it on at any other point.

Well, The Pacifier shows how you can have a plot point without having a throw away line.

The Scientist Father made up a song supposedly to help the middle son (Red 4) get to sleep. In the beginning of the movie, you see the Nanny singing it. Then you get to see Vin Diesel sing it twice. And then, it turns out to be a code to get into a vault the dad built!! How brilliant is that! The song wasn't used once and then all of sudden, it's back again. It was a constant in the movie, used not only by the main character, but also by a secondary character. And it wasn't just used to help out the main character later, it was also a device to show how the character was changing into someone who would do a song and dance for a little kid (and to make the audience laugh because it was a dumb little song).

Posted by xinh at March 6, 2005 10:44 PM