Kangaroo is about….
Latest in the ‘does what it says on the tin‘ films is ‘Kangaroo’ which is about a TV weatherman. Well, sort of, it is about a kangaroo specifically a baby one or joeys as they’re called but a self-centred weather man is involved. He’s Chris (Ryan Corr) desperate to break out of breakfast TV Hell and become a mainstream presenter. But his attempt to make a name of himself backfires spectacularly when his Bondi Beach report sees him ‘rescue’ a dolphin that dies the day after because it had gone to the beach bay to ‘rest’ only for Chris to push it back out to sea. The normally smiley dolphin turns to a frown when its floating upside down. And down is where Chris’s career goes when the nation now habitually refer to him as ‘the man who killed a fish’ (which suggest that Captain Birdseye must be the most prolific of serial killers) turning against him resulting in Chris being fired.
But as is so often the case the bad news is the beginning of hopefully a happier chapter in his life when another company offers him aa project and he leaves the beauty of Bondi to drive across country to a new career.
Those others in Kangaroo…..
Running simultaneously with that storyline is Charlie (Lily Whitley) desperately missing her late father and having little consideration for her widowed mother Rosie (Deborah Mailman). Charlie’s love for raising joeys is a link to her late father, an artist who saw them as spirit animals but her mother is not so keen on her raising them in the house. Inevitably her and Chris’ story cross when he runs down a Kangeroo orphaning the joey in its pouch. And so he is imbued with a sense of guilt by Charlie that he is now its ‘mother’ and must raise the baby until it can be released into the wild. So whilst he waits for his car to be repaired he stays in a tin hit whose en suite is actually a tin bath in the yard during rainy season and a spade and a large bush is his toilet. Think a budget hotel run by Ryanair.
Based on a true story this is one of those tales of redemption as Chris, now in the outback waiting for his car to be repaired, is trapped in a small village with an eclectic collection of locals (and occasional stereotypes) led by the local barmaid and Cordon Bleu chef Jessie (an enjoyably cranky Rachel House) sprinkled with the occasional set piece – Chris taking on what looks like a Roo on ‘roids is a highlight. Lamenting his life as one of, ‘No friends, No life and needs a job’ it’s a film sure to find support from Meghan & Harry. And as the film unfolds Chris finds that unlike so many TV hosts who cling on to inevitably fading careers, there’s more to his life than being on the television.
Should you see it?
The Australian landscapes look as beautiful as might be expected and Kangaroo is as much an inducement to emigrate there and one that’s difficult to resist. As such Kangaroo is one that young kids will, ‘Ooh‘ and ‘Ahh’ at the cute joeys that are a constant throughout in what is a leisurely paced story that is a sentimental and reassuringly old fashioned film and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Here’s the Kangaroo trailer….
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