Them commercials had 10 year old me thinking it was a wacky comedy about a talking Kangaroo, then I saw the shyt and it was a mid ass mob movie where the Kangaroo is barely even in and the scene where he talks is a hallucination 
was probably The Northman, I liked it but I can see how people were expecting a really different film from the trailer
I feel like it was more common in the days before social media. Nowadays the word gets out pretty quickly so the jig is up.Never saw it but I heard about how wildly misleading the trailer was
Lowkey there's been some pretty disingenuous movie trailers thru the years; the last one that was like
Yeah it was actually originally an R-Rated movie but the test audiences gave it the the
and the two scenes with the kangaroo when he kicks them and runs off and when they get the money back at the end were literally the only things they actually liked. So Jeremy Bruckheimer saw how Snowdog duped audiences and made the studio edit the movie down to a PG rating (but it still had mad shyt that definitely wasn't for kids), add some CGI Kangaroo scenes that were pure filler, did the whole hallucination sequence so they could build the trailers around it, and renamed it from Down & Under to Kangaroo Jack.
It was still a comedy (a bad one, but still), just a completely different genre than advertised. It was some wannabe Guy Ritchie shyt
They still do that shyt till this day.
