Kangaroo Jack (2003)
September 17th, 2003 at 7:41 pm (1 - Pretty bad)
I wondered what sorry state of affairs would bring me to watch this movie. I now know: being stuck in a plane for four hours. As the movie was announced I decided that I would rather spend two hours watching a crap film than sitting there bored. I also thought that I would have the first film to get a ‘0 – Stinker’ on Film Roar. It turns out that while Kangaroo Jack is far from a great movie it is actually at times quite a bit of fun. Oh sure the story is crap and the stereotypes abundant, but Jerry O’Connell has great screen charisma and the digitally animated Kangaroo is rather amusing.
On a rather disturbing side note, a sequel to this flick is already being planned. O’Connell and Anthony Anderson have already signed on to a sequel set in Vegas titled “KJ2: Jack Is Back”.
Nick said,
September 18, 2003 at 2:35 am
Man, movies on the plane can be the worst. That’s how I was unlucky enough to see Tomb Raider and Osmosis Jones. I saw Gone in 60 Seconds on a bus from Puerto Vallarta to Guadalajara dubbed in Spanish with English subtitles, oddly. I think it was better that way.
KamirineGoddess said,
April 2, 2004 at 5:33 pm
I took one look at the commerical and decided there was NOTHING that would make me watch that movie. NOTHING!!
FilmRoar » Blog Archive » King Arthur (2004) said,
August 30, 2005 at 12:14 pm
[…] Throughout the movie it is hard to tell whether Clive Owen’s flat expression is his signature stoicism or pure boredom with the lines he has to deliver. It is amusing to Owen (Arthur) ‘falling in love’ with Knightley (Guinevere), I think I may have even noticed him raise an eyebrow at one point but that could have been a trick of the light. The rest of his knights are all appropriately ruggedly-handsome but also seem to suffer from the understanding that the movie is bad enough that it does not deserve any acting effort . They try, but what can you do when a dramatic rise in the score following a big camera sweep toward a waving flag take precedence over story. I mean it almost feels like a Jerry Bruckheimer popcorn flick… oh wait, it is a Bruckheimer flick. Well from the man that brought you Armageddon (1998), Coyote Ugly (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Kangaroo Jack (2003), if your brain is addled enough to have thought those good movies then you might just enjoy King Arthur, otherwise just give this one a skip. […]