This is a really wierd movie. It doesn't even have a plot (unless if you consider trying to get you jacket back from a kangaroo as a plot). I know the movie goes way over kid's heads, but still really dumb. I guess kids just like movies like this. (its soooo immature)!!!!
Kangaroo Jack
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Common Sense says
A very bad movie -- shouldn't have been PG.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 10–12
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Kangaroo Jack was written by Nell Minow
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.
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What’s the Story?
Jerry O'Connell plays Charlie, the hairdresser stepson of Sal, a Brooklyn mob boss (Christopher Walken). His best friend is Louis (Anthony Anderson), who constantly wheedles him into all kinds of messes by reminding him of the time he saved Charlie's life when they were both eight years old. Charlie and Louis accidentally lead the police to a mob stash of stolen goods. Sal tells them that he would have them killed, but because of Charlie's mother, he is giving them another chance. He sends them to Australia with $50,000 cash, to be delivered to "Mr. Smith." Charlie and Louis hit a kangaroo with their jeep, and, thinking it is dead, dress it up in Louis' jacket to take pictures. But it hops away with the jacket -- and the $50,000, which is in the pocket. Charlie and Anthony chase after the kangaroo while they are being chased by Mr. Smith and the mob guys from back home.
Is It Any Good?
KANGAROO JACK is not just a very bad movie. It is a very bad movie that shows how inadequately the MPAA rating system handles the kinds of materials that are of concern to parents. This movie received a PG rating despite "humor" about topics that include masturbation, homosexuality, drinking and drunkenness, epilepsy, murder, grabbing a woman's breasts, the famous case where a dingo (wild Australian dog) ate a baby, a hit ordered by a mob boss on his stepson, and the ever-popular camel flatulence.
The action sequences are poorly staged, the jokes are staged even more poorly, the montages to rock music have no energy, and the acting ranges from mediocre to dreadful. Estella Warren, who plays the love interest, cannot act. The best performance is unquestionably that of the computer folks who designed the CGI kangaroo. Two positive notes are the long and and loyal inter-racial friendship and a strong, independent, brave, and capable woman.
Movie Details
Studio: Warner Bros., Director: David McNally
Run time: 89 minutes
Theatrical release: 1/17/2003, DVD release: 6/17/2003
MPAA Rating: PG for language, crude humor, sensuality, and violence
Run time: 89 minutes
Theatrical release: 1/17/2003, DVD release: 6/17/2003
MPAA Rating: PG for language, crude humor, sensuality, and violence
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
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- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
the strangest movie ever
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
the strangest movie ever
This is a really wierd movie. It doesn't even have a plot (unless if you consider trying to get you jacket back from a kangaroo as a plot). I know the movie goes way over kid's heads, but still really dumb. I guess kids just like movies like this. (its soooo immature)!!!!
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I rate this title on for age 4 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
great fo 6+
i loved this movie my fave (kid)movie of all time hilarious movie i LOVED it my fav part was the rap and the part when jacky legs put the hot ball in his mouth and was hopping every were
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I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
very funny 12 and over
very funny movie worth watching truth is there a sex part in there not for smaller kids so i would say 12 year old can watch this movie .watch it it will make you laugh
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I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it
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- Excessive consumerism
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