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?
Star Wars Episode 1
What were they like at the times?
They were “Look at the story we could tell and the wondrous adventure we’re embarking on together”
And then pod-racing, and puppets, and a jibber-jabber secret sith, and toys.
i remember the posters had giant shadows of darth vader, but the movie had none of him.
The poster was implying that the young boy would grow up to be Darth Vader, if that’s what you mean?
The movie was pod racing and Jar Jar binks. I can’t recall the trailer.
Edit: Well, the trailer is Pod racing and Jar Jar binks.