The Pacifier **½ Fair Disney Fare
I picked this up at the video rental store because it was a $1 and a recent release. We wanted something light and this seemed the ticket. Ben Diesel is a hardened Navy Seal. He is assigned to protect the children of an operative who was recently assassinated while their mom goes to Switzerland urgently to retrieve contents of a bank deposit box. The box may contain the secrets that dad died to protect. With only his military training to draw upon he is able instantly and successfully do what many parents struggle with on a daily basis... to control and motivate 5 children ages 1 to 15. There is the requisite diaper changing scene. And of course they are attacked one night and Ben is able to save them off without suffering so much as a scratch. There are mild teenage tantrums but the children are surprisingly unaffected by the sudden death of their dad. Okay, dad did travel extensively to foreign assignments but you would expect a bit more grief. That is the problem with the story, how to put tough macho Ben Diesel suddenly into a family of 5 children.It is a similar problem with "the Upside of Anger," when dad is
suddenly gone and the children manage to just go on like nothing
happened. It is also difficult to put violence murder into a family oriented movie by treating it like a float in the Mainstreet light parade. I'm not against Disney movies and have seen some awesome Disney films in the past year, this just doesn't happen to be one of them. (I'm referring to "the Miracle" and "Mystery Alaska.") That said, Frank liked it more than I did, thought it as worth 3 stars, but he can voice that in his blog:) If you need to babysit for preteens then this is the movie for you. If you are older then 10, you may want to spend your 2hours on something else.
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