Crocodile Dundee
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Movie Reviews of Crocodile Dundee
Movie Review: Absolutely one of my favorite movies!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well worth your time to watch at least once!Movie Review: Mick "Crocodile" Dundee first visits the Big City
Summary: 4 Stars
"Crocodile Dundee" is the entertaining 1986 film that made Paul Hogan, the Australian television star whose tourism commercials for the country that is a continent introduced Americans to the idea of throwing another shrimp on the barbie. This movie follows "the innocent abroad" tradition, in which a naive person from a distant land (or planet) arrives in the big city and experiences the foibles of modern civilization through saner eyes. Besides the Australian accent, the twist is that Mick "Crocodile" Dundee can more than hold his own against the pimps, muggers, and fiances that would make lesser mortals back down or run away. The premise is that New York City reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) goes Down Under to interview the colorful crocodile poacher who lives out in the outback. He shows her the lay of the land and does a few impressive things, including saving her life, and turns out to be as colorful as anyone could hope. She then decides to bring him back to NYC and unleash him on the unsuspecting population. The New York sequence is where all of the good bits in the film come and Hogan's easy charm and sense of comic timing makes almost all of the bits work. It is hard not to like Mick Dundee and it is not surprising that a romance pops up between him and the reporter.
The only problem is that the on-screen chemistry between the two leads is the weakest part of the film. Yes, I know that Hogan divorced his wife and that in 1990 he married Kozlowski, but whatever was happening off-camera did not translate onto the screen, which is not unusual: just think about "Bennifer." It can be done, if you are Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, but all of the warmth and charm in the Hogan and Kozlowski pairing is on his side of the equation. The result is that the final scene of the film is rather unsatisfying, even with the incessant drumming music reminding us this is dramatic. We are supposed to be caught up in Mick and Sue, but it is the two guys on the subway platform who steal the scene.
Still, "Crocodile Dundee" is an entertaining film about a big kid in a bid city (with a big knife) whose reputation would be slightly more enhanced if it had not spawned a couple of sequels, which deluted the charm of the original. Going back to the outback or putting Mick Dundee in Los Angeles instead of New York is enjoyable, but it is just more of the same and there is never quite as good the second time around.
Movie Review: Put another shrimp on the barbie
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael J "Crocodile" Dundee was in the outback when he was attacked by a croc and had half his leg bitten off. He dragged himself to the hospital and then disappeared back into the outback.
That's the story that journalist Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) wants to get. When she arrives at Walkabout Creek (that's in the Northern Territories), she finds Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan), a hard drinking fun loving guy who was attacked by a croc when "fishing". But she has paid for his story and is going to get it.
Once out on the road, she finds that Mick is different, alone. While he still is posing for her, she gets to understand the beauty of the outback. After a few adventures, she has her story. But the she gets the notion to bring Mick to the Big Apple as he has never been outside of his small town.
Mick is a fish out of water in NYC. He acts just like he is at home. But he does know when he is being made a fool. Rather than a story, this part of the film is a series of comical misadventures. The best is when Mick and Sue are being mugged by a guy with a switchblade. Sue says "but he's got a knife". Mick "That's not a knife, this is a knife" and he pulls his bowie knife.
Prior to this film Hogan was famous for being the "Shrimp on the Barbie" man. He created this film to break out that mold. But what he did is make a bigger mold that he has never broken out of.
This is one of those feel good films that you have to own. When you are feeling down and out just pop this in and you will feel better in under 97 minutes!
DVD EXTRAS: None (As 2006 is the 20th Anniversary they might be releasing a special edition with some extras but I wouldn't wait for it this is all you need).
Movie Review: That's not a knife...THAT'S a knife!
Summary: 4 Stars
Back in the 80's, Crocodile Dundee came out during the craze of everything Australian. Despite that, no one could possibly make for a better character of Crocodile Dundee than Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee. Dundee survives an attack from a crocodile which nets him a great deal of publicity. A young woman who works for one of the large papers in NYC hears of his story and wants to interview him and see the land he survived on. So the movie begins with her trek to the Land Down Under, where predictably after many adventures in the brush, Dundee and the woman get a little sweet on each other. But don't let that spoil your good time. It's just getting started! It's fun from the very beginning but gets even more so once Dundee decides to do a follow-up story and come back with this woman to NYC (sorry I keep calling her this woman...I cannot think of her character name to save my life!) to see how he adapts to life in the big city, complete with her smarmy boyfriend who's father owns the paper the two write for. If you never saw this movie, I suspect you yourself might live in the bush or elsewhere that doesn't have TV or movie rental places. Or maybe you weren't born yet. Regardless, this is a fun movie and makes for a great way to pass the time.Movie Review: "Call that a Knife?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Took me a while to get around to watching "Crocodile Dundee". Only just did this year, which I feel a bit funny about, being Australian. I'd kind of seen bits of it on the TV and stuff, but I wouldn't say that I'd grown up with it or anything. Seeing it, I think it's not too bad. Strange sort of Australia though. There are some parts that are sort of authentic and some parts that are cartoonish and stereotyped, yet its all blended so well that if you weren't Australian you wouldn't know one from the other. It's funny that way. Bit crude in places though, bit blunt I guess....
Mick Dundee (comedian Paul Hogan) is a bit of a character in his hometown in the outback. Though it's illegal to go around killing crocodiles, he has had a tangle or two with the when he's been out walkabout. A journalist from America goes to investigate, and becomes quite interested in him. Perhaps she'll take him home to New York, see what he thinks of her hometown...
It's worth a look for anyone who's interested, I think.