Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee

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  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy
  • Release Date: 1986-09-26
  • Runtime: 97 minutes
  • : 6.422
  • Production Company: Rimfire Films
  • Production Country: Australia
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6.422/10
6.422
From 2,019 Ratings

Description

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

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Reviews

  • JPV852

    7
    By JPV852
    Loose plot but Paul Hogan shines as Dundee and it's just an all around feel-good film that one can't help but put a smile on your face. Seen this a few times over the years but still holds up. **3.75/5**

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    Time hasn’t been especially kind to this, but it is still a groundbreaking piece of light-heartedness that almost single-handedly kickstarted a renaissance in Australian cinema. Riddled with stereotypes, it tells the tale of an American journalist “Sue” (Linda Kozlowski) who reads of a famed Aussie crocodile hunter (Paul Hogan) and sets off to interview him. Assuming he is something of a yokel, she arrives to find he is perfectly prepared to play that part, ably assisted by his mate “Walter” (the frequently scene-stealing John Meillon) and make her feel suitably superior. Of course, as the plot thickens she begins to realise that there is much more to him than initially met the eye and when she convinces him to come with her to New York their relationship heads off on a fairly predicable, but still quite entertaining, route. I found the comedy was at it’s best when it was at it’s simplest and the charismatic Hogan brings a charm to his role as he points out what a real knife is, or when he says hello to a man at a busy crossing as if they are destined to meet again for a beer. Though hardly sophisticated, it uses the concept of the culture clashes of two countries divided by the same language to ping some of the superciliousness of some urban American attitudes towards this presumably ill-educated oaf and at times is actually quite a funny and potent critique on snobbishness. It probably wouldn’t even get made now, and maybe it’s tinged with nostalgia, but I did quite enjoy it.

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