Rating: 
Summary: A 5.0 Star
Review: I think this is the best movie I've ever seen.I love this movie so much.I watch it all the time.This movie is very,very funny.If i could I would tell everyone in the world how great kangaroo jack is.
Rating: 
Summary: piece of serious BLEEP
Review: trashy toilet humor, that embarrasingly sensual waterfall scene, and a lot of other stuff make it the exact opposite of the family-friendly kids movie it's cracked up to be. Hollywood can sink no lower. PG? Gimme a break. I would have rated it -100 stars but the review machine doesn't let you.
Rating: 
Summary: Not bad, but not that good either...
Review: I got this video because I thought it would entertain my 3 1/2 year old with a talking kangaroo. Well, there was no talking kangaroo (except in Jerry O'Connell's imagination) like it was implied, and it was hard to tell who the audience was for this movie. I actually found some parts to be funny, but this is not really a movie for children.
Rating:
Summary: It's pretty good in it's own strange way
Review: You've probably heard the critics and late night talk show hosts make fun of this movie but it's supposed to be really silly anyway. The movie doesn't take itself very seriously, plus it's basically a kids movie and I've seen a lot worse, really gross, lame, and stupid stuff in children's entertainment. This movie is stupid, but it's stupid in a fun way like a good SNL skit, rather than being stupid like a bad SNL skit where you wonder "why don't they just stop?", and then you feel sorry for the actors and writers. The reports that this movie is inappropriate for kids are exagerated in my opinion. Unfortunately you don't really get to see much at all in the waterfall bathing scene, but Estella Warren is very cute in this movie as always. I would show this movie to kids, but it's fair to warn you that I don't actually have any children of my own, and I'm 20, and a cartoonist; lowering my credibility. Even if you're just a curious adult wanting to see something weird and funny this movie is at least worth renting.
Rating:
Summary: Lost ! (and not only in the Australian Outback)
Review: The main problem with Kangaroo Jack is the fact that it is trying to be too many things at once,but fails to succeed in one.
It is trying to be an action movie:
As a Jerry Bruckheimer produced film,you would expect the ubiquitous action/chases/wreckage and surely, not to disappoint,there is only one scene in the first half of the movie,but it does seem unnecessary and over the top, Bad Boys it is not.
It is trying to be a comedy:
A mobster comedy to be more specific, but it fails not only because this subject has been filmed to excess, and much better at that(Analyze This/That, Wise Guys, Midnight Run etc..),but also because funny dialogues are really few and far in between.
It is trying to be an animal movie:
The digital kangaroo is just not 'cute'! If you expect talking animals as in the 'family fun' and surreal Dr Doolittle, or a sweet nice animal movie as in Paulie,you will be disappointed.
Digital technology has undoubtedly boosted movie making to a great extent, but I felt that in Kangaroo Jack this technology was used just for its sake, and not to help/enhance the plot/script.
It is trying to be a family movie:
The presence of the gorgeous Estella Warren, miscat as this wildlife rescuer in the Australian outback, had more 'dads' in mind than 'offsprings'.
It is trying to lure viewers with Chris Walken:
I was wondering what on earth such a fine actor was doing here? The only explanation I could come up with was that this film looked much better on paper.
It is trying to take advantage of the location:
Australia as a location and culture is a source that is still largely untapped in American movies. But while Crocodile Dundee was the funniest in using 'Down Under' as a source for many laughs,Kangaroo Jack is riddled with unfunny and at times annoying cliches about the country.
So as a result, Kangaroo Jack finds itself lost in too many things, and losing the viewer in the process.Avoid!
Rating:
Summary: One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Review: I took my son (age 6) to this and there was tremendous whining and squirming in the seats - by me. The humor is dreadful and the plot is moronic. The two main characters nearly kill a kangaroo then find it humorous to dress up the corpse in a coat. oooo - the hilarity that ensues. They're only in Australia to deliver money to a man doing a terrible Russell Crowe impression who will kill them upon doing so. (Yes, I'm revealing the plot, such as it is.) Our intrepid heroes meet a beautiful zoologist who is studying animals and trying to rescue an endangered species. Once they succeed retrieving the jacket, she of course abandons all her plans to live on a boat with our 'handsome' hero while the 'comic-relief' does cannonballs in the pool. Sound like fun - no.
Rating:
Summary: Kangaroo Jagoff
Review: The fact that this "movie" was a box-office success is proof enough that armageddon is near... Won't be long now, people...
Rating: 
Summary: A Talking Kangaroo?
Review: This movie wasn't my favorite. Some people might like it . Its well acted (in my opinion) the story line is kind of silly but there are some humorous stuff in here. If you have nothing to watch, go ahead and watch it. Its fun, its cute. Its OK. I've seen worse. Its not completely bad, but go watch it and find out for yourself.
Rating:
Summary: You will believe that a kangaroo can hop...wearing a jacket
Review: Halfway through "Kangaroo Jack" it occurred to me that B-Movies are now the exact opposite of what they were when I was a kid and young enough to find this a particularly funny film. Back then we had great stories with cheap special effects (e.g., "The Thing from Another World" and "Them!"), but now we have movies with great special effects and lousy scripts. The title character of "Kangaroo Jack" is no E.T., but he sure has Jar-Jar Binks beat big time. If the kangaroo is not your favorite character in this film then you are probably a male between the ages of 13 and 23 who found Estella Warren to be particularly cute. The plot of the film is an update of the class screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby," that is if you turned George from a dog into a kangaroo, changed the interclaster clavical of a dinosaur to $50,000 of mob money, left Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant alone in their graves and replaced them with Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson, and moved the whole thing to Australia with explicit references to "Crocodile Dundee" in case the audience does not get the point, which, I suppose is possible. Not that I think the people who made this movie saw "Bringing Up Baby," but I saw the connection and if other people do too then they can go rent that movie because it is, as mentioned previously, a classic screwball comedy. Kids are going to like "Kangaroo Jack" as long as the kangaroo is on screen, even if he is a little tiny fast moving figure off in the distance. In fact, those are the parts adults will like as well. It is just a shame that such great special effects were used in the service of such a lame story. Now I am trying to remember the last time I saw a buddy film where the two buddies had such little chemistry.
Rating:
Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Why are so many people giving this movie a bad rap? It was hilarious! Oh my goodness, me and my friend never stopped laughing. The serious parts about the robbers and gang werent very good, but the comedy makes up for that. Just to share a funny part, Charlie sees a mirage, but he thinks its their Jeep that got lost. He hops in and is kickin back then goes, "lets turn up the tunes", then soon after that he says, "hey look, Slurpee", he takes a big sip from the imagenary Slurpee then looks up holds his head and goes, "Aw, brainfreeze!" Definatley a good movie if your looking for a good movie. But dont let the title fool you, Kangaroo Jack doesnt have much to do with the movie> He steals thier money and thats it.
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