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Movies that feel likeThe Pacifier (2005)

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.

If you loved The Pacifier, the closest films we have are The Legend of Drunken Master (1994), Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Son of Rambow (2007). All three share The Pacifier's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Three Men and a Leg (1997).

🍅 21% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Shankmanwittyplayfulwarmkinetic
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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%★ 7.5action · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung 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-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 75%★ 5.3family · action · adventure

One thread runs through both: scientist

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Pacifier does

Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than The Pacifier does

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Witty family in both cases

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7.7comedy

Playful action, and it commits to that

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Both lean on momentum more than on action

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, 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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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2009 · dir. Steve Carr
🍅 34%★ 5.3action · adventure · comedyStarz

Family built on momentum, twice over

When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.

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Rush Hour 3
2007 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 17%★ 6.3action · comedy · crimeParamount+

Common ground: action hero

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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Bedtime Stories
2008 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 27%★ 6.1fantasy · comedy · familyDisney+

Adam Shankman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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The Watch
2012 · dir. Akiva Schaffer
🍅 16%★ 5.7comedy · action · science fictionHulu

Both lean on play more than on action

Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

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