The best (and only) explanation for the adds I have seen so far is that someone made the character for a commercial that was never aired. Somebody then decided to use it as a movie gimick. Hollywood seems to be out of all other good ideas. Ahem (sequals) cough (remakes) ...oh excuse me, just had to clear my throat.
----ooo-'U'-ooo------Kilroy was here.
Oh come on. Who doesn't want to see a kangaroo beating the s**t out of Jerry O'Connell? And Estella Warren is in it. I'm not going to complain about anything that gives her screen time.
Brother R
(1) Jerry O'Connell ("Joe's Apartment"--bad version--"Mission To Mars," and so on).
(2) Bruckheimer.
(3) Past "kangaroo movies:" "Matilda (with Elliot Gould, 1978 or so)" and "Tank Girl."
How many warning flags does one need?
My kid wants to see it, and he does a mean imitation of the black guy in the commercial doing "And he hopped awaaaaaaaaaaay!"
So I flagged it at Netflix, NO WAY are we seeing this in the theater - but it could be cute...even with the warning flags, listed by Squishy, are flapping fast and furious (and numerous) in the wind.
Good bad, or bad bad. Only a viewing will tell, I guess.
I simply cannot believe even Jerry O'Connell signed up for this! Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where not-so-well-known actors said to their agents, "You know, this is really bad. I don't need the money, I invested wisely with the dough I made from my other movie. Let me know when you get something else."
Pure fantasy, I know.
I'm in the same boat as Chadzilla. My son wants to see this bad but unfortunetly I might have to see it in the theater. I only hope it goes to the discount theater in the next town over so I don't have to pay over the top ticket prices for this(Like we did for MIIB)
Talking Animals = GOOD MOVIE!
Shouldn't this be a new Fox special: When Animals Rap?!
The first time I saw the commercial I thought I was watching an SNL parody, now I wish I had been. They've managed to make a trailer that annoyed and nauseated me with its stupidity more than the ones for "Bubble Boy" and "See Spot Run".
I don't even want to think about what the actual movie will be like.
Even money that someone in the course of the film does a bad Steve Irwin impression.
Hey, you guys are making this movie guilty before it has a chance at innocence.
First, it was a brilliant stroke of genius (yes that is redundant I know.) to have the money amount to 50,000 dollars. If it were lower, there would be no drama and if a kangaroo stole a clean million, it was just be too unbelievable.
Second, Kangaroos were the perfect choice. Would turtle Jack have been as funny or made as long of a movie? We all kn ow the answer. However, Kangaroos are totally underrated and are finally getting their long deserved chance to shine.
Now, I need to clear all of this sarcasm from the computer screen. Yuk.
The exact responses of my friends and me when we first saw the preview as follows; "WHAT THE HOLY F*CK!?" "The hell is that?" "No way that's a real movie." and "Dude! We gotta see that!" <===== He was promptly beaten into a coma. For his own good...........
No No NO!! He was RIGHT!!! I wanna GO!! I wanna make a day of it!! I wanna dress up! I want me and all my friends to dress up as different animals! I want to dress as a giant moose and I want a gorilla and a bat to come with me!@ Remember the Joe Camel cigarette guy? cigarettes havent been funny at all since he was killed! I think cigarette Camel Joe should be in kangaroo jack 2!! WAIT! KANGAROO JACK IS JOE CAMEL! ITS A RIP OFF!! NO! Im still going! I'll never forgive myself for not going to see Country Bears! I dont want to see it now that its on video its no fun that way!
love colleen
#1 It isn't even mildly amusing let alone funny.
#2 The kangaroo is barely in the movie.
#3 The whole rapping kangaroo is a total SNOW DOGS style bait & switch.
#4 Believe it or not, nobody ever does a Croc Hunter impression.
#5 But they do karaoke "Down Under" by Men At Work.
You can read my fully detailed review at Ain't It Cool News.
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14172
....incredibly STUPID, from the tv previews. Unbelievable it was ever made. Ripe for trashing here on Andrew's site or at Jabootu.
:-P
As an avid fan of hip hop, I was on the floor laughing when a kangaroo, A KANGAROO was doing the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers' Delight". What makes Hollywood think they can cheapen the song with a kangaroo just because it starts of with:
To hip hop
the hippie, the hippie
to the hip hip hop
you don't stop...
That song is sacred and putting a jumping rat from Austrailia just make it demeaning. And a friend of mind who is 33 is thinking of seeing this dreck. If I give any of you his address, can you do a drive by shooting?
From what I have seen in the previews, this movie appears to be about a group of three young adults that have the unfortunate accident of hit and presumably killing a defenseless Kangaroo. For fun, (because they are sick and twisted young minds) they decide to dress this apparently dead kangaroo in a hooded sweat shirt. For some unexplainable reason (the previews fail to describe where it came from) these people have $50,000. It is in an envelope inside one of the pockets of this hooded sweat shirt. After the boys have a few laughs, the kangaroo suddenly awakens from his unconsious state, proceeds to kick one of these people in the face and then escapes. After the shock wears off, one of the boys realizes their mistake in making a joke out of this poor kangaroo. The money is in the sweat shirt, that is on the kangaroo. Now, I understand the desire of these people to try and get their money back, but why even bother. $50,000 isn't even that much money these days. When you think about it, 15 minutes spent on a stupid game show these days could make you a millionaire. Why risk life and limb over a lousy 50 grand. I'll tell you why. BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT PRODUCED THIS MOVIE ARE f**kING IDIOTS!!!
I hope that this film proves to be the lostest earning movie ever to hit the theaters. I expect that after one week of being released, the producers will find that it is more expensive for them to show this movie than it is to remove it from the theaters. This would prove that America is not full of the idiots we find in Hollywood.
Good movies with talking animals---
Look Who's Talking Now
Cats and Dogs
Scooby Doo The Movie
I'm sorry did i say good movies, i meant absolutely horrible movies
i agree about the whole rappers delight thing.
Same situation in the Wedding Singer when the old lady breaks down into Rappers Delight,
what are movie producers smoking these days. (possibly some good ole crakc cocaine to clear their heads)
Drew who hates Kangaroo Jack wrote:
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> Good movies with talking animals---
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> Look Who's Talking Now
> Cats and Dogs
> Scooby Doo The Movie
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> I'm sorry did i say good movies, i meant absolutely horrible
> movies
Oh man. CATS AND DOGS. I hated that movie because I am a feline lover and so are many people that i know who agree with me. And I think it shows the political bias in Hollywood these days. Why did the cats have to be the bad guys (better yet, why did one of them have to be "evil " in the first place)? I sure don't here about kitties mauling peole to death, do you?
A jacket-wearing kangaroo? Well sure, I could have come up with that idea if I were stoned! When I first saw the TV spot for KANGAROO JACK, I thought I was drunk. But after the spot was over, I quickly realized that I didn't drink at all and knew it was just the spot itself. This just proves that the good ideas are stuck in the independent rut while the stupid ones get bankrolled like crazy. Hollywood is close to downfall, and I can't wait to see that happen.
But the fact that producer Jerry Bruckheimer is behind this attrocity is not a suprise. This is the same hack that produced the crap-fests ARMAGEDDON, CON AIR, GONE IN 60 SECONDS, and PEARL HARBOR. I could cut him some slack for BLACK HAWK DOWN, but I felt that film was so-so and not up to all the hype! Something tells me Bruckheimer must have snapped, BIG TIME!
When I see a movie like this is greenlighted, it makes me wonder why I'm not in Hollywood coming up with crappy ideas for movies. Apparently, I was under the delusion that it took hard work and talent to get a movie made. I guess I'm way too naive for my own good.
I can't believe this was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend...I know the competition is slim, but still.....Jeez.....
*Weeps at the realization that people are actually going to see this movie* Those poor people.........
The bait and switch marketing campaign worked and kids actually got suckered into believing that this movie was about a rapping kangaroo.
Jerry O'Connell was on E! Thursday or Friday and said the inspiration for the movie was an urban legend about someone hitting a kangaroo with a car and putting a jacket on it to take a picture, blah blah blah. Never heard of this urban legend; I have heard of people taking pictures of roadkill, but who dresses the thing first?
My mouth hit the floor when I saw this was #1 over the weekend, what little faith I had in mankind and taste has vanished. Then again, "The Hot Chick" is still playing in my town, and we only have two theaters with ten screens total.
The crap merchants win again..........