Kangaroo Jack

Year: 2003

Grade: D-

Country: USA

Director: McNally

Review

directed by david mcnally who has one other film to his credit – coyote ugly. so two things come to mind with that knowledge – he likes animals in his movie titles, and he likes making really shitty movies. this one was a step up from coyote ugly, but shows me that mcnally is well on his way to hollywood infamy. again, this one is no gigli, but it makes a strong effort to be as bad as possible. it all starts with the poor screenplay which is half-baked at best and formulaic and painful at worst. like glitter though, this film stays pretty close to convention and is thus unable to attain the lows seen in gigli. also, with its host of b-grade talent (except christopher walken who has yet another small role in an awful film), it doesn’t have the expectations/potential that gigli had. mcnally’s direction is mostly average, but does have some awful moments. i don’t think that the direction was quite as bad as that of glitter, but it was bad in the same way. there were over-stylized scene transitions that were accompanied by swooshes and such. mcnally must have been a commercial director before he sucked someone’s dick to become a film director. the music was awful except for the inclusion of a couple classics…again, this is just like glitter which featured a grandmaster flash song and sucked other than that. the sets and blue screen effects were too obvious and didn’t help the cause at all. of course all this neglects to mention the rapping kangaroo and the lame concept. it’s just a bad bad movie. it did generate three chuckles and one laugh, but that wasn’t nearly enough to make the film watchable.