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IMDbFavorite Fart in a Movie | 2004
Worst Supporting Actress | 2003 | Estella
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | 2003
Least Special Special Effects | 2003
Most Annoying NonHuman Character | 2003
Worst Supporting Actor | 2004 | Anthony
Worst Supporting Actor For | 2004 | Christopher
Best Virtual Performance | 2003
Inspired by an urban legend that co-writer Steve Bing heard as a teenager, about a pair of Boston college students on break in Australia. While driving through the Outback, they accidentally hit a kangaroo with their Land Rover. Thinking they had killed it, they got out and placed the driver's Boston Red Sox jacket on the kangaroo to take a picture before moving on. However, the kangaroo was merely unconscious, and awoke in the midst of the photo-taking. It broke free and took off across the Outback, still wearing the Sox jacket...along with the keys to the Land Rover in the pocket.
The film hit #1 in its opening weekend, despite dismal reviews. This is a famous example of false advertising. Many parents said they felt deceived by the film. The Kangaroo Jack character is front and center in all of the posters and commercials, even though he's not the main character, he only speaks in a brief dream sequence and he's only in the movie for about five minutes. Asked if it wasn't misleading to run TV spots with a talking kangaroo when the kangaroo barely talks in the actual film, former Warner Bros. marketing chief Dawn Taubin explained: "There's clearly a lot of kangaroo in the movie. And our exit polls indicated very strongly that a large percentage of the audience were highly satisfied with the movie.
The film is regarded as one of the worst films of the 2000s. In fact, when the film came out, the reviews were so bad that producer Jerry Bruckheimer actually asked Jerry O'Connell to never read any of the reviews.
Filmed in spring 2001 in Sydney, Australia, under the working title "Down and Under". This was written and shot as a hard-R mob comedy, featuring adult language, sexual themes, on-screen murders, nudity (including full frontal nudity from O'Connell and rear nudity from Anderson) and a kangaroo that didn't talk. When Warner Bros. initially test screened this cut of the film, it scored poorly. The test audience was told they would be seeing a movie "about a kangaroo with a jacket on". With that, they assumed it was a kids movie about a talking kangaroo that they can bring their kids to, only to see an adult crime comedy full of cursing, violence and sexual humor/nudity. Around this time, another kids' movie where the titular animals only speak in one scene and the entire scene is merely a dream was about to come out, which was Disney's Snow Dogs (2002). Inspired by the ad campaign for that film, producer Jerry Bruckheimer decided to make the kangaroo talk, change the name to "Kangaroo Jack" and edit it as a PG family film. Warner Bros. ended up spending an extra $10 million for two weeks of additional shooting (including the scene where Charlie dreams about Jackie Legs talking and rapping), and to replace its animatronic kangaroos with CG kangaroos. In the summer of 2002, after the new effects were completed, Warner Bros. had a new "Kangaroo Jack" test screening and it went through the roof, it was the biggest change in test screening numbers in Warners' history.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brought in scores of writers to punch up the script. Participants included such well-known comedy hands as Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel, Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly, Gary Ross and E. Max Frye.
"Kangaroo Jack: [singing from "Rapper's Delight"] /... see I am Jackie Legs and I like to say, "Hello" / To the black to the white... Charlie Carbone: Jackie? Mr. Legs, if you could find your way clear to give me back my money? Kangaroo Jack: Money? Oh, you mean that money! [a pack of kangaroo are messing around with the money] Charlie Carbone: Stop that. Stop that! Hey! Stop that, please! If Sal finds out... Sal Maggio: [as a kangaroo] If I find out what, Charlie? That you lost my money? Charlie Carbone: Sal? Sal Maggio: I've asked you to do something for me. This is not that!"
"Charlie Carbone: [after kissing Jessie under the waterfall] Okay, I'll admit it. This is the most romantic moment of my entire life. Louis Booker: [Runs over] AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! [Does a cannonball into the water] Charlie Carbone: And now it's over."