Crocodile Dundee

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Summary: The movie that made Paul Hogan a star
Review: Paul Hogan has a few great movies, but "Crocodile Dundee" is the one that got him started. A woman (Linda Kozlowski) takes a trip to Australia and seeks the famous Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan) and begins doing her job as a reporter. She becomes interested in Crocodile Dundee and his antics in the Land Down Under such as how skilled he is at killing crocodiles. As a matter of fact, she invites him to come to New York City with her because he has never even traveled anywhere before.

Before long, Mr. Dundee is making friends in The Big Apple without really meaning to. I guess you could consider "Crocodile Dundee" a romantic comedy, but it's also a lot like an adventure movie. Parts of the movie are hilarious such as what Mr. Dundee does when he suspects that someone who is dressed up like a woman isn't really a woman and when he scares some hunters away by making them think that the animal they're hunting is shooting at them.

"Crocodile Dundee" is a fun movie to watch and it's interesting to see how Mr. Dundee is going to survive in the big city when all he's ever known is life in a small part in Australia. I recommend anybody who likes classic movies to get "Crocodile Dundee."

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Summary: The movie that made Paul Hogan a star
Review: Paul Hogan has a few great movies, but "Crocodile Dundee" is the one that got him started. A woman (Linda Kozlowski) takes a trip to Australia and seeks the famous Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan) and begins doing her job as a reporter. She becomes interested in Crocodile Dundee and his antics in the Land Down Under such as how skilled he is at killing crocodiles. As a matter of fact, she invites him to come to New York City with her because he has never even traveled anywhere before.

Before long, Mr. Dundee is making friends in The Big Apple without really meaning to. I guess you could consider "Crocodile Dundee" a romantic comedy, but it's also a lot like an adventure movie. Parts of the movie are hilarious such as what Mr. Dundee does when he suspects that someone who is dressed up like a woman isn't really a woman and when he scares some hunters away by making them think that the animal they're hunting is shooting at them.

"Crocodile Dundee" is a fun movie to watch and it's interesting to see how Mr. Dundee is going to survive in the big city when all he's ever known is life in a small part in Australia. I recommend anybody who likes classic movies to get "Crocodile Dundee."

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Summary: A good follow up.
Review: Paul Hogan is back as Mic Dundee-along with his girlfriend from the first two,and there 12yr old son. Not yet married ,but happily living together,in Walk About Creek.His girl freind is called back too the states to run the los angles news paper.So it becomes a family holiday.At Some point in the movie dundee decides too play detective and help solve the mystery behind the former editors disapearence.Dundee is also joined by his mate another croc hunter,who decide too follow the family too the USA.With some new gages and alot of simular ones from the first two.This is a fun sequal,lots of cameos,and a good family film. If you could rate movie bye half star i'd say give this another half.If your a big fan of the series or hogan in general-or just looking for a good wholesome movie too take the whole family too..Nothing bad here,just flat out fun.It's even worth a second go around.Saw it opening weekend,with out any preread or veiwed previews.Just went bye the movie ad in the paper.It was worth it the trip.

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Summary: Classic Oz Comedy
Review: Pithy humour. Fairly standard story line of putting a country bumpkin in the city, and a city slicker in the country. The cross-culture twist between Oz and America definitely adds flair, and Paul Hogan does a first rate job of adding perspective to commmon experiences.

One of the few films that kept my father awake and laughing the entire time.

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Summary: "That's not a knife, *that's* a knife"
Review: The most successful Australian movie of all time, it became the most successful foreign movie of all time in the USA and the second highest grossing movie in the USA in 1986 (beaten only by Top Gun). Paul Hogan's movie debut and his first serious acting role - his only previous acting experience was in comedy sketches in his Australian TV show. This was the movie which sparked the Aussie craze of the late 1980s in the US. It is a fairly innocuous fish out of water tale featuring a knockabout bushman and a savvy American newspaper reporter. The first half of the movie shows reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) in the Australian outback while in the second half the tables are turned and Mick Dundee (Hogan) finds himself coming to grips with life in New York. The film suffers in the transformation to video - the spectacular scenes shot in Australia's Kakadu National Park and the breathtaking vista of New York City are but a pale whimper on the small screen and some of the continuity problems are magnified, specifically the scene in the back seat of the taxi. But they are small beer when you consider the feel good impact of this film and its achievement in raising the profile of Australia in the US. Hogan became Australian of the Year in 1987 as a result of this film and his "shrimp on the barbie" tourism commercials. It is a film you can watch over and over and the crowning achievement of the Australian film industry.

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Summary: Too wide!!
Review: The movie itself is good - in VHS. But in DVD with the super wide 2.35 aspect ratio, it takes up too little of my screen and is hard to see. Half of the screen is in darkness. Why don't they bring these out in full screen?

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Summary: Croc Rock
Review: The part of this score that I noticed most was the main theme, played in the opening and closing tracks. Thats the outback-style guitar, drum, and digeridoo theme. It is a catchy theme that works well in the movie and it will stick in your head once you've heard it on CD. That theme is the most enjoyable, memorable part of the score. Other tracks to be noticed are Track 3 which is a pleasant, bouncy guitar tune. The rest of the score is mainly pop, 1980's kind of sounds, but it does work great for the movie and sounds okay on CD. It can get a little annoying but the other music I think makes up for it. Another Paul Hogan movie score to look out for by Australian composer Bruce Rowland is "Lightning Jack" which also contains some catchy tunes. Maybe Peter Best will be back to score "Crocodile" Dundee 3, which is currently filming in here in Australia.

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Summary: the original non child endangering croc man
Review: the story is that this chick goes to the outback and hears a story about a local guy who killed a croc with but a knife.she goes to do a story on him.shes a reporter.she hangs with him for a few days and finds out hes never left the outback,never been to a big city and hangs out with ruffians and aboriginees his whole life.so she takes him to ny with her.he runs into much trouble.the kids like it.its about as good as the second one.his ol lady is 80s hot but into days world she would need much work.his movie lightning jack is not as good .its alright.

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Summary: Good day, mate
Review: 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.

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Summary: Good day, mate
Review: 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.