Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) fails to rescue security designer Howard Plummer (Tate Donovan). The secret program GHOST is still missing and Shane is assigned to watch over Plummer's children possibly find GHOST in the house. Captain Fawcett (Chris Potter) escorts the widow Julie (Faith Ford) to Zurich to open a recently discovered safety deposit box. This leaves Shane in charge of five kids, the nanny Helga (Carol Kane), and a guard duck. The oldest Seth (Max Thieriot) is in trouble with Vice Principal Dwayne Murney (Brad Garrett). Zoe (Brittany Snow) is the popular cheerleader but she has problems of her own. Principal Claire Fletcher (Lauren Graham) is much nicer.The movie starts with a weak version of a 007 action scene. I don't think it's necessary especially if this movie wants to be a fun family broad comedy. Vin Diesel is fun to make fun of. That's where the movie works best and where the movie should exist. He could actually be quite a fun straight man in a comedy parodying his tough guy image. This is not that movie. Vin Diesel being annoyed with the five kids and the duck is the essence of what this movie should have been.

I won't go into the somewhat incredible plot line here, but will say that this movie is an underrated gem. Vin Diesel plays his role to perfection and all the kids are solid in their roles as well. For adults the movie is sort of silly, and anyone who knows anything about Navy SEALS isn't going to believe he was assigned to babysitting duty, but for kids this movie is a classic. My daughter must have seen it, oh, a few dozen times and therefore, for sheer entertainment value alone, it was worth buying the DVD. The truly great thing about the film is how it shows that children & teens are capable of doing things they don't believe they can and that with adult support and guidance they can achieve whatever they want to achieve. Notice I said, 'adult,' not parental. Vin Diesel is acting as a parental substitute but he's also every martial arts teacher, play director and driving instructor who ever lived. He also shows that you can be firm yet not abusive in raising kids, and that respect and discipline of one's self is paramount, which coming from Vin Diesel's persona is a powerful message.Aside from the affirmation of adults as teachers and role models, and the "You Can Do It!" shout out to kids, there's also the indelible vision of Vin Diesel doing this Peter Panda song and dance routine. But even that is proof that if you love someone, you'll do all sorts of crazy things for their happiness - and sometimes the payoff will be greater than you ever imagine.

I probably saw a trailer or two for this film during its cinema release time, and naturally I thought it looked terrible, but I watched to confirm that, from director Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember, Bedtime Stories). Basically Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is the highly trained and expert US Navy Seal who causes the accidental failure of a mission, and to make up for it he is set to be an uncover agent. The man involved in the failed mission, Howard Plummer (Tate Donovan), was killed in action, and his family are now in danger as the enemy is looking for the details of a secret project called GHOST, which he has in a safe deposit box. So Shane's mission is to look after the family, but the widowed mother Julie (Faith Ford) is out of the house a lot, leaving him on his own to keep an eye on the five children: Zoe (Brittany Snow), Seth (Max Thieriot), Lulu (Morgan York), Peter (twins Logan and Keegan Hoover), and Baby Tyler (twins Bo and Luke Vink). For a long while Shane finds it very hard to cope with the needs of the youths in the house, and he tries to lay down the rules like he would in the Navy, but it does not all seem to sink in with the troublesome kids. Slowly though they do learn to behave a bit more, and they start to like their "babysitter", and there only comes the low point when his time is coming to an end and the danger is possibly lessened. Of course the danger is not over, the family are tied up and gagged while the bad guys, including Shane's own commander Capt. Bill Fawcett (Chris Potter), look for the safe deposit box containing the GHOST details, but Shane saves the day, stops them, he kisses his love interest, Principal Claire Fletcher (Evan Almighty's Lauren Graham), and Shane says his goodbyes, but not before seeing a family play. Also starring Carol Kane as Helga and A Bug's Life's Brad Garrett as Vice Principal Dwayne Murney. This was not long after the awful film The Chronicles of Riddick, so Diesel was trying to cash in on the younger audience market, and unfortunately he does not completely pull it off, it is pretty much a mix of Daddy Day Care and Man of the House, only with a trained professional, and less but naturally irritating children, it is not very original, it is not very funny, and it is hardly worth watching at all, a silly family action comedy. Adequate!

The Pacifier is a great family film that is filled with action and adventure. When i saw the bad reviews and comments, i thought it was gonna be terrible but it wasn't that bad. Some parts had its flaws but it was mostly entertaining and fun. Vin Diesel as the lead role was pretty good. A funny part in the movie is when Shane was wrestling with the vice-principal. It was also cool when the robbers broke into the children's house then Vin Diesel (Shane Wolfe) started fighting them and using cool techniques. The fight scenes were cool. I also like the part near the end when Shane had to do that panda dance to unlock the code to get that device. That was pretty sick. It was one of the better scenes in the movie This movie is worth checking out and is surprising at times