Kangaroo Jack

Name: Kangaroo Jack
Released: 2003-1-17
Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Michael Shannon, Bill Hunter

Kangaroo Jack

PG
1h 29m
2003

age 12+

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When New Yorkers Charlie and Louis run afoul of the mob, they get one last chance to avoid sleeping with the fishes. All they have to do deliver $50,000 in cash to Australia. Simple...But speeding down a dusty road in the Aussie wilderness, the pair's jeep hits a kangaroo. Thinking the seemingly lifeless animal looks like a friend back home, Louis puts his lucky red jacket on the kangaroo to snap a photo. But the kangaroo bounces away--with the $50,000 in the jacket--and the New Yorkers begin a madcap chase across the Outback to catch the kangaroo, get the money and save their lives.

Director:

David McNally

Producer:

Writer:

Barry O'Brien

Cast:

Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Michael Shannon, Bill Hunter, Christopher Walken, Marton Csokas, David Ngoombujarra, Dyan Cannon

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics Consensus: The humor is gratingly dumb, and Kangaroo Jack contains too much violence and sexual innuendo for a family movie.

Reviews

Common Sense Media

Nell Minow

A very bad movie -- shouldn't have been PG.

January 31, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Sacramento News & Review

Mark Halverson

A ragged comedy that features much more lame slapstick action than bouncing beast.

Likable but negligible.

Brainless and inane, this is for undemanding kids only.

Parents beware: this film is too crude, violent and offensive for younger viewers.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 12+

Common Sense Says

A very bad movie -- shouldn't have been PG.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the DVD cover suggests that a funny kangaroo is a large part of the movie, but it's a brief highlight that appears only in a fantasy sequence. The movie has a great deal of material parents might consider inappropriate for children, including peril, violence and gunplay, a stepfather who orders his stepson killed, drinking to excess seen as impressive, drinking portrayed as a way to cope with problems, violence, potty humor, and a co-ed swim in underwear that leads to kissing. There's a sexist joke and the black character is portrayed in "sidekick" terms with no interest in having any kind of independent life or relationships. The "happy" ending is somewhat sour as the only character who had been doing something to contribute to improving the world appears to have abandoned that completely for a life of hedonistic pleasure.