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Release Date: 13 May, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $11.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Crocodile Dundee Reviews
Good day, mate
The story premise of Crocodile Dundee is simple enough. New York reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) travels to Australia to write a story about a man nicknamed "Crocodile" Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) who survived a horrific crocodile attack while fishing (in reality he was poaching crocodiles). She wants to see the actual spot where he was attacked, so he takes her on a tour of the Australian bush. He is able to con her into believing he is quite the natural outdoorsman but we are able to see many of his little tricks (i.e.- where he is using a disposable razor to shave his face until he sees her walking in his direction. Then he quickly hides it and pulls out his knife so she can think he shaved his face in this primitive manner). One of my favorite Australian scenes is when they are in the bush and an aborigine comes along. She is initially frightened until she learns it is a friend of his. She asks Mick how his friend "Wally" can find his way around the bush at night and Dundee tells her aborigines have a sort of telepathy. Then you hear Wally (who is really a city boy returning for a family visit) hooting and hollering as he stumbles and trips in the darkness, his voice echoing "I hate the bush" . Sue then decides it would really complete her story if she could write about the Australian man visiting New York . She invites him visit and this is where the second part of the story takes place. Mick Dundee is utterly unpretentious and befriends everyone, most notably the working class folk such as his limo driver and doorman. The New York scenes are some of the funniest- him coming down an escalator for the first time. Arriving at his the spacious New York hotel room, he asks "how many people are staying here?" She tells him there is a TV in the room he can watch if he is bored. He says he is familiar with TV, he watched it at a friend's house and turns it on. A "I Love Lucy" rerun comes on and he remarks drolly that this is what he saw back then, too. The scene where he tries to find out what a bidet is for is a scream.
One of my personal favorites is when they are held up by a mugger wielding a knife. Sue is pleading with Mick to give up his money because the man has a knife. Mick replies, "you call that a knife? Now this is a knife" while whipping out his own gargantuan knife and slashing the mugger's jacket. The look on the mugger's face before he takes off running. Another memorable scene is when he is in a bar with a cab driver friend, meeting up with what he thinks is a beautiful woman. His buddy informs him that "she" is really a man (in drag). To confirm this, Mick sticks his hand between her legs and cops a feel. He is outraged, much to the amusement of the entire bar. This scenario comes to play once again when he meets an older woman friend of Sue's at a party. The woman has a very husky voice. Suspicious of being tricked again, he once again cops a feel. Sue is shocked, but tells her friend not to mind, "he's from Australia". Instead of being angered, her friend replies with a bemused smile, "I really must go there sometime." Although he played a lot of tricks on Sue while they were in the bush together, it turns out that Mick does have some special talents (one of them being a good fighter) and many of them are showcased during the New York visit. She slowly falls in love with Mick and realizes that her pompous fiancee is not the man for her. A very simple but entertaining movie.
Very well acted (and often quite funny) though predictable
Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski prove themselves two wonderful actors. They make their roles believable and likeable. And yes, there are some laugh out loud funny moments. Yet I still can't give this one a 4 or 5 star rating since almost every single fish-out-of-water cliche was incorporated. Here are most of them: 1) a reporter is sent to a foreign country (Australia) to interview Crocodile Dundee--guess what'll happen. 2) He arrives in America but his heart and mind are still purely Australian. He causes his predictable shtick in the Big Apple. 3) He arrives in New York City with all the wonderful stereotypes of it thrown in. 4) And, as I indirectly mentioned in Cliche 1, the reporter and the lady fall in love. That is the whole movie and I've seen the formula used in trillions of others like it, both made before and after '86. Films of its ilk include MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON, COMING TO AMERICA, THE COWBOY WAY, THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY, MY COUSIN VINNY...the list goes on and on. But it is of course superior to its two dreadful, painfully unfunny sequels.
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