Looney Tunes: Kangaroo Jack

Looney Tunes: Kangaroo Jack is a 2003 American-Australian live-action/animated buddy action comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Village Roadshow Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Baltimore Spring Creek Productions, and The Secret Lab, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide and Roadshow Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. It is the second fully original theatrical feature film in the Looney Tunes franchise, and was directed by Joe Dante and written by Scott Rosenberg with music by Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams. Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, and Estella Warren star in the film; Michael Shannon, John Goodman, Hugo Weaving, Dougray Scott, and Christopher Walken appear in supporting roles, while Joe Alaskey leads the voice cast. Its plot follows Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (Alaskey) as they embark on a vacation to Australia with two childhood friends who get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo named Jack (Adam Garcia).
The film was the result of multiple attempts by Warner Bros. to develop a sequel to Space Jam (1996). It was originally developed as a direct sequel titled "Australian Jam", which was intended to include Hugh Jackman in the lead role. Dante, out of a personal dislike for Space Jam, substantially developed the project to more closely represent the personalities of the Looney Tunes characters, with Disney animator Eric Goldberg serving as the animator director. However, Dante reportedly had no creative control on the project, and the final film became different from what he intended. The film serves a combination between hand drawn animation and computer-generated imagery animation; Ramin Djawadi and Geoff Zanelli composed additional material for the score.
Looney Tunes: Kangaroo Jack was released theatrically in the United States on January 17, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures and in Australia on April 10, 2003 by Roadshow Entertainment. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over Space Jam and praised the animation and humor, but criticized the screenplay. It underperformed at the box office and grossed $88.9 million against a production budget of $60 million. Warner Bros., developing a franchise revival around the film, subsequently canceled several planned related projects, including new theatrical short films. It was the final film to be produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and The Secret Lab and the last theatrical Looney Tunes feature film until Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).
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Category:Warner Bros. Feature Animation films
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Category:Castle Rock Entertainment
Category:Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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Category:Films set in California
Category:Films set in Australia
Category:Film scores by Trevor Rabin
Category:Film scores by Harry Gregson-Williams
Category:Films directed by Joe Dante
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