Filmed in spring 2001 in Sydney, Australia, under the working title "Down and Under". This was written and shot as a hard-R mob comedy, featuring adult language, sexual themes, on-screen murders, nudity (including full frontal nudity from O'Connell and rear nudity from Anderson) and a kangaroo that didn't talk. When Warner Bros. initially test screened this cut of the film, it scored poorly. The test audience was told they would be seeing a movie "about a kangaroo with a jacket on". With that, they assumed it was a kids movie about a talking kangaroo that they can bring their kids to, only to see an adult crime comedy full of cursing, violence and sexual humor/nudity. Around this time, another kids' movie where the titular animals only speak in one scene and the entire scene is merely a dream was about to come out, which was Disney's Snow Dogs - 8 cani sotto zero (2002). Inspired by the ad campaign for that film, producer Jerry Bruckheimer decided to make the kangaroo talk, change the name to "Kangaroo Jack" and edit it as a PG family film. Warner Bros. ended up spending an extra $10 million for two weeks of additional shooting (including the scene where Charlie dreams about Jackie Legs talking and rapping), and to replace its animatronic kangaroos with CG kangaroos. In the summer of 2002, after the new effects were completed, Warner Bros. had a new "Kangaroo Jack" test screening and it went through the roof, it was the biggest change in test screening numbers in Warners' history.

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