The Pacifier is a 2005 American family comedy film directed by Adam Shankman, written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant and stars Vin Diesel. The film was released in March 2005 by Walt Disney Pictures and grossed $198 million worldwide. It has a 21% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which called it "only moderately amusing."As of June 2020, the film holds a 21% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, based on 131 reviews with an average rating of 3.72 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Vin Diesel parodies his tough guy image for the family audience, but the result is only moderately amusing."On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, writing, "This premise is promising, but somehow the movie never really takes off."The film opened at #1 in the box office upon its opening weekend with $30.6 million.By the end of its run, it earned $198.6 million worldwide.