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Summary: the "dark side" is hardly dark
Review: this is an exciting adventure with plenty of humor. hogan and kozlowski work well together.
maybe a couple of parts are a little corny. it wasn't intended to win the oscar.
it's just a fun, feel good movie.
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Summary: Oh make it stop! Make it stop!
Review: This movie opens with Crocodile Dundee blowing things up in the New York Harbor and instead of getting arrested, the Coast Guard (or is it NYPD) laughs because he's just another whacky Australian engaging in antics. Because after all, no one that strange would ever be in New York City so they should give him the benefit of the doubt or something.It just gets worse. As Croc decides to get a job dealing stationary, the girlfriend's old boyfriend/friend/who cares he's dead 10 minutes after you see him anyhow gets pictures of drug dealers shooting people. He's shot but not before getting the pictures to her. Oh yeah, and the drug dealers seem a little more like drag queens than big time dealers. But then again, these are Hispanic actors and it would be years before Robert Rodriguez did any movies that anyone would want to be in, so they took the dealer roles because La Cage Aux Falles wasn't hiring. There's also the big white guy with the ponytail who would later go on to Hong Kong and get beat up by Jet Li in a dozen movies, but he's pretty inconsequential here. And when the Crocodile Dundee gets a "gang" (although real gang members don't wear mohawks because their friends would beat them senseless for it. Nor do they cultivate a Boy George look, unless they have discovered new things in prison) to help him break into the dealer's house and rescue the girlfriend, the tamest version of Wild One comes on the soundtrack and you know that Iggy Pop should sue whoever convinced him to give the rights over. And the less said about the cowboy junk at the end the better. Although it's not as awful as the rest of the movie, you are cheernig on the bad guys by this point, if only it would mean that the movie would end sooner. So if you remember watching this movie as a kid and you are tempted to buy it now, don't. Let your memories lie dormant without trouble. This is not even a bad movie that you can enjoy (like Showgirls). This is just bad.
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Summary: Darker, yet not bloody
Review: This sequel is something of a departure from the original, less comic but equally character-driven, and gives us the opportunity to see Mick Dundee exercising his bush skills on his "native heath." The story reverses the geographical course of the original, taking Mick and girlfriend Sue Charlton from New York City back to the Northern Territories in an effort to escape the Colombian drug kingpin (Ubarry) who has targeted them for death. Bad guy Rico has the men and the guns, but Mick Dundee knows the territory, and he exploits that knowledge to the fullest. Like Matthew Quigley, he picks off (or scares off) Rico's men one or two at a time, but manages not to kill any of them, while still contriving to keep himself, Sue, and old partner Walt Reilly (Meillon) alive and unpunctured--and maintaining his lighthearted outlook on the world in general. A good comedy-adventure for families to share.
Rating:
Summary: Darker, yet not bloody
Review: This sequel is something of a departure from the original, less comic but equally character-driven, and gives us the opportunity to see Mick Dundee exercising his bush skills on his "native heath." The story reverses the geographical course of the original, taking Mick and girlfriend Sue Charlton from New York City back to the Northern Territories in an effort to escape the Colombian drug kingpin (Ubarry) who has targeted them for death. Bad guy Rico has the men and the guns, but Mick Dundee knows the territory, and he exploits that knowledge to the fullest. Like Matthew Quigley, he picks off (or scares off) Rico's men one or two at a time, but manages not to kill any of them, while still contriving to keep himself, Sue, and old partner Walt Reilly (Meillon) alive and unpunctured--and maintaining his lighthearted outlook on the world in general. A good comedy-adventure for families to share.
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Summary: Hogan grossly underrated in thriller sequel.
Review: Undoubtedly Paul Hogan's best work yet. Rarely do I rate a sequel higher than its predecessor, but that's the case here. I'm looking forward to Dundee III (3D). Mick Dundee (Hogan) finally begins to adjust to life in New York City, when he and his beautiful girlfriend (Linda Kozlowski) are targeted for death by a gang of ruthless drug dealers. Dundee evens the odds by leading the big-city hoods into the treacherous Austrailian outback. John Meillon shines as Dundee's mentor, and Gerry Skilton and Steve Rackman play the role of Hogan's best friends. This one's a treat for the entire family.
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