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Movies that feel like The Pacifier (2005)

If you loved The Pacifier, the closest films we have are The Internship (2013), Kopps (2003) and Rush Hour 3 (2007). All three share The Pacifier's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.

πŸ… 21% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Adam Shankmanwittyplayfulwarmkineticmelancholy
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If The Pacifier hit the spot, these will too

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The Internship
2013 Β· dir. Shawn Levy
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.3comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Missing the momentum of The Pacifier

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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Kopps
2003 Β· dir. Josef Fares
β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy

Warm where it counts, kinetic underneath

A small Swedish village, HΓΆgbotrΓ€sk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Rush Hour 3
2007 Β· dir. Brett Ratner
πŸ… 17%β˜… 6.3action Β· comedy Β· crime

Common ground: action hero

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Pacifier does

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

Melancholy comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Bedtime Stories
2008 Β· dir. Adam Shankman
πŸ… 27%β˜… 6fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Adam Shankman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than The Pacifier does

Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?

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Rush Hour 2
2001 Β· dir. Brett Ratner
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· crime

One thread runs through both: action hero

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

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American Ultra
2015 Β· dir. Nima Nourizadeh
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.1action Β· comedy

Witty action in both cases

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.

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Nanny McPhee
2005 Β· dir. Kirk Jones
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Family built on play, twice over

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 Β· dir. Lau Kar-leung
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5action Β· comedy

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Red Dog
2011 Β· dir. Kriv Stenders
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy Β· family

Both lean on melancholy more than on family

The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

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A Man Called Otto
2022 Β· dir. Marc Forster
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

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Dead Presidents
1995 Β· dir. Albert Hughes
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.9crime Β· drama Β· action

Action built on momentum, twice over

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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