Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Unimaginative, unfunny, and unbelievably tacky. Most of the film is focused on the two guys and the only reason Kangaroo Jack is even in it is to make the film go faster and to bring humor, which failed horribly. The two guys aren't even that entertaining either. Just a bunch of fart and sex jokes with bad delivery. It's a boring movie with a dumb plot.

Kangaroo Jack (2003): Dir: David McNally / Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Michael Shannon: Cheesy showcase of garbage aimed at children complete with fart jokes and sexual humour. What is even worse is that the film isn't about the kangaroo. He is secondary to an idiot plot. Two best friends who have known each other since boyhood unite when one saves the other from drowning. Too bad that one couldn't save the other from a plot this moronic. They are assigned to transport mob money to Australia and they lose it in a jacket that is worn by a kangaroo. One idiotic situation follows another with lousy directing by David McNally. This would seem an odd followup to his Coyote Ugly but then again, that film sucked crap too. Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson are capable of being funny given the right material, but here they are just plain annoying. Estella Warren as the wildlife researcher serves only as O'Connell's love interest. What's even worse is that she never convinces us that she knows her ass let alone anything about being a wildlife researcher. Christopher Walken is a fine actor who is wasted as a mob boss. Michael Shannon plays one of the moron villains out to do Walken's bidding, which unfortunately doesn't involve leaving the film. The animated kangaroo is fine but the film should be buried in the Australian outback. Score: 1 / 10

"Kangaroo Jack" took a lot of heat when it came out, mainly because it turned out it wasn't actually about some sort of jive-talking, wise-cracking kangaroo. Unsuspecting parents walked in expecting to sit through a boring kid's movie, but eventually had to sit through a cleverly disguised (yet still boring) toilet comedy. Since then a lot of people have criticised the movie's blatant false advertising (the trailer is one of the most hilariously misleading things you'll ever see), which is unfortunate because they often ignore that the movie itself just totally blows as well. Who's even supposed to be the demographic for this? Is there some kind of underground society of Anthony Anderson fans I don't know (or want to know) about? Are there people that just watch ANY movie set in the Australian outback, regardless of what it's about or how annoying the people in it are? The whole movie seems like an afterthought of the marketing campaign, it's almost like the makers forgot they actually still had to make this thing for a while. I guess that's the way you make a killing at the box office, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Woeful film.

Kangaroo Jack seriously has me torn. Torn between my childhood love for the film and my current thoughts on it. Years ago, this was one of my favorite films. I watched it various times, and for some reason, couldn't get enough of it. This was also the first film that spawned my love for Anthony Anderson. He sort of reminded me of a new age Chris Farley character. He had no limits, and he was always lovable in his presentation.My thoughts on the film has slightly changed since my last viewing, roughly three years ago. My view on the film didn't change as much as when I rewatched Hey Arnold!: The Movie having not seen it in x amount of years, but it didn't stay the same like it did when I rewatched Good Burger.Still, it's difficult to hate a film so lively and amusing. It revolves around Jerry O'Connell's Charlie, a hair stylist barely making end's meet at his current salon and Anthony Anderson's Louis as his slow-witted, dopey accomplice. After a deal gone completely wrong, Charlie's stepfather Salvatore Maggio (Walken) tells both of them to take a plane to Australia and deliver a confidential package to a man named "Mr. Smith" in the Australian Outback.Even after being told not to open the package, Louis opens it to reveal over $50,000 in Benjamin Franklins. Upon arrival to Australia, by accident, Charlie runs over a kangaroo and believes to have killed it. Louis gets the bright idea to put his red Brooklyn jacket, with the money, on the kangaroo after recognizing the beast as "Jackie Legs." The kangaroo turns out to be alive and hops away with the jacket and the money, leaving both Charlie and Louis hopeless, desperate, and pessimistic of the consequences if Sal finds out.I recently mentioned in my review of Three Amigos that the fish out of water premise rarely works. Here, it doesn't break a whole lot of new ground, yet it doesn't make a game out of humiliating the outsiders like many other films of the genre do. Also, the Outback scenery is fantastic with the rusty colored sand and the heat of the desert is captured with pure realism. This is the case where a kid's movie goes a bit beyond expectations.Yet, it goes below expectations with some of the kiddy jokes. Case and point, the camel scene. Unnecessary and not funny. It furthers my thoughts that Hollywood, sometimes, compiles the lowest common denominator of childish entertainment and throws the scattered, messy bag into a film.The film redeems itself by offering characters we'd probably like if they were realistic, and brings above average backstory to its plot. I don't think I've seen a kid's film recently that had as much story focus on the character's lives since Kangaroo Jack.Now comes the inevitable kangaroo, which is the least impressive thing in the film. The kangaroo is odd, and even stranger when he speaks. His lips move in a very odd manner, and his movements are very unnatural. When he jumps, due to the sketchy technology at the time (also present in Ang Lee's Hulk, released the same year) the sound seems to break as if a strong, abrupt wind is blowing by. It's odd, but doesn't happen often. I think the most haunting scene involving the marsupials is when Charlie has a hallucination with several characters voicing several other kangaroos. Even at the end when Jackie Legs says goodbye it comes off as unappealing, and we're glad to be rid of such a peculiar character.Director David McNally also tries to pay homage to the film many of us refer to as "wet, young, voluptuous women bar dance on a table for about an hour and a half. Of course I'm talking about Coyote Ugly, one of his earlier works. The scene involves Estella Warren showering under a waterfall. The scene is very tame and is likely to go unnoticed. It's no worse than the subtleties in shows like Rugrats or Spongebob Squarepants.Kangaroo Jack has a heart, but sometimes it gets too rambunctious with its immaturity. Its strange protagonist doesn't help matters, but its sufficient plot, steady characters, and fantastic scenery do. It's a cheery, entertaining film. Sometimes, that's good enough for the kids. But maybe not so much for the adults.Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, and Michael Shannon. Directed by: David McNally.