Current Events > So I was reading the Wikipedia page for Kangaroo Jack...

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and found this gem

Initially the film was titled Down and Under and was shot as an R-rated mob comedy in the style of Midnight Run.[2] The film was shot in Australia in August 2001, and originally included cursing, sex, and violence, and only one scene with a kangaroo. However, when the film's producers saw the first rough cut, they realized that it wasn't working as expected.[3] Inspired by positive response to the kangaroo scene in early test screenings, as well as the marketing campaign behind the recently released Snow Dogs, the production shifted the marketing focus away from that of a dark mafia comedy to that of a family-friendly animal picture. Extensive new footage that replaced the animatronic kangaroo with a new CGI one that rapped was shot, and the film was edited down to a PG-rated family animal comedy.

That is amazing, literal example of a movie studio trying to turn a lemon into lemonade, or in this case a crappy mob comedy movie into a crappy kangaroo movie that only talks for a couple of minutes. I'm truly impressed on the person who came up with this idea.
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I only ever hear bad things about this movie. I loved it as a kid.
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The original version of Smokey and the Bandit 3 had Jackie Gleason playing both Sheriff Buford T. Justice and the Bandit.
The test audience got too confused by the sme actor playing two roles, so they had to reshoot it with a new Bandit.
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MonkeyBones23 posted...

I only ever hear bad things about this movie. I loved it as a kid.

I was the opposite as a kid, I kept on wondering why there was more boring humans than talking Kangaroos.
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That movie had the most blatant false advertising I've ever seen. They advertised it as if the talking kangaroo was the main character only for the actual movie to have that only as a short dream sequence.
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Prestoff posted...

MonkeyBones23 posted...

I only ever hear bad things about this movie. I loved it as a kid.

I was the opposite as a kid, I kept on wondering why there was more boring humans than talking Kangaroos.

The trailer tricked me into thinking it was about a talking roo, but it's about some tosser adults chasing a normal-ass roo.

Fuckers!
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MC_BatCommander posted...

That movie had the most blatant false advertising I've ever seen. They advertised it as if the talking kangaroo was the main character only for the actual movie to have that only as a short dream sequence.

This, it was bullshit.

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Lmao

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MonkeyBones23 posted...

I only ever hear bad things about this movie. I loved it as a kid.

Same here, I only have very fond memories of this movie, was an all time favorite of mine as a kid.

Then, I read up more about it later on as an adult and was so shocked to see how negatively received it was by almost everyone.