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50Highbrow entertainment this isn't.
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This salt-and-pepper buddy movie set in the scenic environs of downtown Brooklyn and the Australian bush is a crowd-pleaser -- for the elementary-school set.
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50Jumps at chance to be silly.
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50Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
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38The film's crude humor and violence -- cartoonish, but still violent -- should offend parents of younger kids. Yet its ultra-broad, pratfall-filled comedy will satisfy only the most indiscriminate teens.
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38A dumb, by-the-numbers children's movie.
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25The 'roo doesn't talk, except in a dream sequence…I'm dying here.
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25Hop away from this one fast!
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Lame comedy.
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25In the life-is-too-short category, file Kangaroo Jack as a sub-Farrelly Brothers, dumb-plus-dumber buddy picture.
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0It's fitting that the kangaroo gives the most lifelike performance.
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30This fish-out-of-water buddy/action comedy is aimed squarely at undiscriminating 10-year-olds, and that demographic may well enjoy it.
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30Run -- don’t walk -- from this film or you might end up watching a bad CGI character do a painful Dr. Evil impression.
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11Indeed, the largely computer-generated Jack acts the pants off his co-stars, which can and should be taken with a whole trough full of salt.
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25A desert of shrill juvenile jokes and clanging chase sequences.
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25The kangaroo is devoid of charm, as are the actors, who have the chemistry of fingernails on a blackboard.
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40Likable but negligible.
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20Bruckheimer shifts from high-concept historical romance "Pearl Harbor" and high-concept T&A "Coyote Ugly" to a first attempt at high-concept light comedy, yet only his fondness for dragging acting talent down with him carries over.
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20For auds unwilling or unable to grapple with the subtle nuances of "Scooby Doo," Warners now gives us Kangaroo Jack, a shrill and silly farce.
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10Straight from the fiery, churning bowels of high-concept hell comes Kangaroo Jack, Bruckheimer's idea of kid-friendly fare, and some of the longest 90 minutes ever committed to film.
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10Were it not for the involvement of producer Bruckheimer, who has made billions by conning millions into believing they can't live without his celluloid crack, it's doubtful Kangaroo Jack would even exist. As it stands now, the "movie" barely exists anyway.
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1088 minutes of desperate gyrations intended to simulate humor.
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10What better to do with such a quiet, majestic landscape than to liven it up with the noise and vulgarity of lowest-common-denominator American pop culture?
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10There are two distinctive features to the movie: the mind-numbingly banal plot as one chases another who chases another, and all the offensive material.
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Virtually every shot of the kangaroo was digitally created, and perhaps that was an insurance policy masterstroke. Forcing a real live one to act opposite these co-stars could have easily constituted animal cruelty.
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Positive: 17 out of 33
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Mixed: 2 out of 33
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Negative: 14 out of 33
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KM9
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6A6Okay, I know it wasn't as good as lord of the rings but, It's a funny little movie to see with your kids.