Kangaroo Jack

2003

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Family

35
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 111 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 35473 35.5K

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Plot summary

Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.

Director

David McNally Photo
David McNally

Top cast

Christopher James Baker Photo
Christopher James Baker as Crumble
Jerry O'Connell Photo
Jerry O'Connell as Charlie Carbone
Damien Fotiou Photo
Damien Fotiou as Baby J
Anthony Anderson Photo
Anthony Anderson as Louis Booker
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793.59 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 9
1.4 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 38

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 4 / 10

A movie with zero-story.

To be honest "Kangaroo Jack" isn't an horrible movie. It has some solid main characters and some good comical moments and situations but it is all ruined by the story that is totally without a point and lame. Who ever green-lighted this project?Even though he plays obviously a quite prominent role in the movie, the character of Kangaroo Jack feels totally out of place and not relevant for the movie. He feels totally pointless and makes the movie a very lame one to watch at times with some easy and childish humor and situations in it. Without his character this movie probably would had been a better one and certainly a more watchable one.The actors Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson really don't form a bad comical duo but they are truly given awful material to work with at times. The movie feels like a waste of the two main characters. And what ever was Christopher Walken thinking? I still can't believe that he agreed to play a part in this movie. It's like having Marlon Brando in "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Totally out of place and below his professional level.The movie is good looking and it's obvious that director David McNally still has a notable talent for movie making. He still adds feeling and style to the movie even though it can't all conceal the movie its lame and pointless story.It's still good for a few laughs but it overall has more minuses than pluses in it, so I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone unless you're really bored.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Reviewed by hung_fao_tweeze 4 / 10

Very misleading

I was fooled by the packaging. I expected the movie to be about a kangaroo. It was - but just barely. I even thought it would be about a talking kangaroo. It was - but only for a moment. It was advertised as fodder for kids. Well, it tends to remain in the general audience vein with brief strays into light-hearted sexual innuendo. No, here the kangaroo is simply incidental to the actual story which isn't that compelling to start with. It is mostly a CGI kangaroo and not always a very good one. When the animal is actually on the screen it tends to almost be annoying because it tends to come across as a commercial. Sort of like .... meanwhile, here is what the kangaroo is doing. It breaks up the storyline with somewhat lame attempts at the kangaroo trying to be funny. Completely unnecessary. As for the story - it could have actually been a good Mafia-lite film in a way. The resulting revelation about the purpose of the kangaroo hijacked envelope of money was the most interesting part of the film. There are some amusing sequences but nearly none have anything to do with the kangaroo. Why was the kangaroo billed as the star? I don't know. Even as the film ends the kangaroo soliloquies that he is the star and finally gets to performing in the way I originally thought the film was going to convey. By the end of the film I felt somewhat betrayed. I was waiting for a kangaroo that never really happened.
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