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The Pacifier 3/7/2005 6:26:27 PM
The Pacifier
posted 3/6/2005
A duck bites Vin Diesel's ear, which I found very funny.
Other than that, the movie is a demonstration of the pitfalls of trying to manage too many threads. Diesel is a navy Seal babysitting several undisciplined kids, so where the story is going is a foregone conclusion. But taking the time to set up everyone's personal and group issues and playing them out in different arenas means the film is in a long, slow, set-up mode that has a quick payoff. There's very little tension, because the people the children need protection from are mostly kept off-stage, and the job Diesel is given -- finding something in the children's house -- is generally ignored. In some scenes, all the children are actively protected from danger, in others, they aren't. So there's no internal logic to what happens.
