| 50 |
USA Today
Jumps at chance to be silly.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Christine Dolen
Highbrow entertainment this isn't.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Karen Heller
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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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Likable but negligible.
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| 38 |
New York Post
A dumb, by-the-numbers children's movie.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
The 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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| 30 |
TV Guide
This 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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| 30 |
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
Run -- 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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| 25 |
Rolling Stone
The 'roo doesn't talk, except in a dream sequence…I'm dying here.
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| 25 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
In the life-is-too-short category, file Kangaroo Jack as a sub-Farrelly Brothers, dumb-plus-dumber buddy picture.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
A desert of shrill juvenile jokes and clanging chase sequences.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Lame comedy.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The kangaroo is devoid of charm, as are the actors, who have the chemistry of fingernails on a blackboard.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
Hop away from this one fast!
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| 20 |
Variety
For 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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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Bruckheimer 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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| 11 |
Austin Chronicle
Indeed, 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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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
Were 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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| 10 |
The New York Times
What 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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| 10 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Straight 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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| 10 |
Washington Post
There 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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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
88 minutes of desperate gyrations intended to simulate humor.
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| 0 |
New York Daily News
It's fitting that the kangaroo gives the most lifelike performance.
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| 0 |
Village Voice
Joe McGovern
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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