I agree with the other reviewer that there's something bizarrely entertaining about a boxing kangaroo, mostly because this one doesn't seem to know what, if anything, it is supposed to be doing. In all the other times I have seen boxing kangaroos, from 1920s silent comedies to Warner Brothers cartoons, the kangaroos seem at ease with the concept. Here, the kangaroo looks like you'd imagine a large Australian herbivore would look like if you stuck 18-ounce gloves on its paws and grappled with it: inert and confused.
4 Reviews
Simple premise, but somehow entertaining
Horst_In_Translation12 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
The Skladanowsky brothers were the first movie makers from my country and this short film which is exactly what it says it is: a boxing kangaroo going against a man. It's mildly entertaining, although it becomes a bit repetitive towards the end. Thy style is surely interesting to watch. The kangaroo often uses its height advantage in pushing down the opponent. I wonder if that is where Klitschko saw his technique first. Sometimes the movements from the animal almost look like more than wrestling or judo than boxing, but this film is a nice change compared to all the boxing movies made back then, just like the one from the year before that has two boxing cats.
Anticlimactic ending.
Kitahito25 March 2021
Sadly, not much happening in this one, aside of the sheer magnificence of a guy fighting a kangaroo (Skladanowsky was way ahead of his time). I waited for a KO, or at least an epic Rocky-esk ending where the battling parties get frozen in a Schrödinger's frame just before the punches connect, so we can't decide who won and who lost... but this isn't the most perfect of the created worlds, and here we are, without climax or catharsis. I'm disappointed.
2.25.2024
EasonVonn25 February 2024
This is really essential as an early cinema that presents how they can deconstruct the camera, not just recording the reality or making even a fictional story, but also a way to entertain people with such a "deceitful" kangaroo boxing.
The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.
This is really essential as an early cinema that presents how they can deconstruct the camera, not just recording the reality or making even a fictional story, but also a way to entertain people with such a "deceitful" kangaroo boxing.
The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.
The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.
This is really essential as an early cinema that presents how they can deconstruct the camera, not just recording the reality or making even a fictional story, but also a way to entertain people with such a "deceitful" kangaroo boxing.
The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.
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