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[Discussion] Someone should have gotten sued over Kangaroo Jack for deceiving trailer (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you grew up in the early 2000s, you probably saw a trailer for Kangaroo Jack. The trailer gives the impression that the movie is a screwball road trip comedy about two friends and their wacky, talking Kangaroo sidekick. Except it’s not that. It’s an extremely unfunny movie about two idiots escaping the mob. There’s a random kangaroo in it for like 5 minutes and he only talks during a hallucination scene that lasts less than a minute. Turns out, the producers knew that they had a stinker on their hands so they cut the movie to be PG and focus the marketing on the one positive aspect that test audiences responded to, the talking kangaroo, tricking a bunch of families into buying tickets.

What other movies had similar, deceitfully malicious marketing campaigns?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they are referring to Will Eisner's The Spirit but also Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmiron or whatever the fuck it's called is the worst film title ever.

[–] BigPotato 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How you gonna "or whatever it's called" and get the title perfectly right? Like call it "Stallion of the Cinnamon Rolls" or something at least.

And it's not a terrible movie. It's certainly a kids movie but of all the trash out there for kids, it's nowhere near the worst. Pull up Netflix and we can find at least twenty worse titles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Lol I literally have never seen it. I do like that you can basically shuffle the words and they are all equally stupid sounding:

Cimmiron, Spirit of the Stallion
Stallion, Cimmiron on the Spirit
Spirit, Cimmiron of the Stallion