6 º of Kangaroo Jack

I of course am stealing shamelessly from the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The game, in a nut shell, is that you can link any Hollywood actor to Kevin Bacon in less than 6 moves; the shorter the list, the better. The example that Wikopedia gave was Val Kilmer. They connected him to Tom Cruise in Top Gun and then to a Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon. So you have two degrees of separation between Val Kilmer and Kevin Bacon. So what does that have to do with Kangaroo Jack?

Well, in a previous post, I talked about vegemite and the movie Kangaroo Jack. The movie is about two young men from New York. Jerry O’Connell from the TV show Sliders plays Charlie Carbone, the step son of a mafia boss. Anthony Anderson plays Louis, who is always scheming to make big bucks and getting into trouble. Louis gets Charlie to help him move some televisions and they end up leading the police to Charlie’s step father’s warehouse. The step father, Salvatore Maggio, is played by Christopher Walken. He is not happy with the pair and sends them to Australia with $50,000 to pay a hit man. The hit is on them and they are carrying the money themselves.



Well, on their way, they hit a kangaroo and decide to make it a photo opportunity. They think the kangaroo is dead and Louis puts his “lucky jacket” on the animal. The animal recovers and runs off with the jacket which just happens to have the $50,000 in it. The rest of the movie is spent trying to recover the money. In one of the scenes, Charlie is watching this old Australian guy, Blue, pound shots at the bar. Louis has schemed that you can hire an airplane and tranquilize the kangaroo. As they are calling the pilot, Blue walks by to go to the bathroom and passes out on the floor. As the phone they are calling from rings, Blue’s phone rings also. He is the pilot. Of course in the next scene, he is flying the plane. Those Aussies sure can hold their booze.

So where does the six degrees of Kangaroo Jack come in? Kevin Bacon was in the 1994 movie A River Wild with Meryl Streep. Christopher Walken was in the 1978 movie Deer Hunter with Meryl Streep. The character Blue was played by an Australian actor named Bill Hunter. Bill Hunter is the voice of the dentist in Disney’s 2003 smash Finding Nemo. I don’t know if you are supposed to play it that way but I thought it was an interesting connection. If you listen to the dentist after watching Kangaroo Jack, you can hear it clearly. Good day mate.


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