Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 103
The humor is gratingly dumb, and Kangaroo Jack contains too much violence and sexual innuendo for a family movie.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 28
The humor is gratingly dumb, and Kangaroo Jack contains too much violence and sexual innuendo for a family movie.
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Two low-level American crooks head to Australia, where they match wits with a kangaroo (who appears to have an intellectual edge on his pursuers) in this broad comedy. Charlie Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) is a hairdresser from Brooklyn whose best friend, Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson), scrapes together a living moving stolen merchandise. Charlie's stepfather, Sal Maggio (Christopher Walken), is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money and wants to know when he'll get it back; Sal's
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Cast
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Jerry O'Connell
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Anthony Anderson
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Estella Warren
Jessie -
Michael Shannon
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Christopher Walken
Sal Maggio -
Bill Hunter
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Marton Csokas
Mr. Smith -
David Ngoombujarra
Mr. Jimmy -
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All Critics (113) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (105) | DVD (18)
Likable but negligible.
Top CriticParents beware: this film is too crude, violent and offensive for younger viewers.
Aussie-set comic fiasco.
It's 89 minutes of pure agony without a laugh in sight.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has an unparalleled knack for assembling Z-grade talent, particularly when operating in family-fun mode.
It's clear it was intended to cash in with audiences of all ages, but the antics are distinctly childish, while the romance is sexually suggestive.
A very bad movie -- shouldn't have been PG.
A ragged comedy that features much more lame slapstick action than bouncing beast.
Brainless and inane, this is for undemanding kids only.
Oh, how I wish I didn't know 'Jack'.
It's a thin, tedious caper only notable for its impressive Outback locations and a cameo from Christopher Walken that proves the word 'no' isn't in his vocabulary.
No one seems to have any idea whether this is an action movie, a comedy, a kid's movie or perhaps a bizarre experiment in kangaroo torture.
A competent and workmanlike action-adventure romp for kids, briefly enlivened by a funny cameo from Christopher Walken.
The movie is crap, but no more so than you'd expect from something with [i]Kangaroo Jack[/i] on the title card and Jerry Bruckheimer's name under the producer credit.
I suppose gangsters, hit men, attempted murder, car crashes, and alcoholism pass for family entertainment these days. The clincher for kids is the flatulence.
If you can imagine how painful it would be to wander aimlessly lost for days on end through the Australian outback, that's how the eighty-nine minutes of this film go by.
David McNally basically made a mob comedy, realized it wasn't funny and then added in computer-generated shots of the kangaroo that didn't require paying actors for reshoots.
O personagem-título aparece pouco ao longo da projeção: se somarmos todas as suas cenas, é possível que o resultado não passe de 15 minutos. E se estes 15 minutos já são ruins, imaginem os 75 minutos restantes...
If only Walken had met up with the kangaroo...
Parents may find themselves growing tired of the immature undertone, but the charismatic odd couple of O'Connell and Anderson is enough to emphasize the film's light-hearted feel.
Audience Reviews for Kangaroo Jack
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- Louis Booker: I put the money in the jacket, and the jacket on the kangaroo, and now he hoppin' away!
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- Jessie: Drink this.
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- Charlie Carbone: No, it's more than that.
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- Louis Booker: What's eatin' you, man?
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- Louis Booker: You know, Charlie, this mysterious Mr. Smith that we're gonna meet? I don't think that's his real name.
- Charlie Carbone: Nothin' escapes you, Louis.
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- Charlie Carbone: Whoo!
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