I can't beleave I did not know they made this. I love the fisrt 2. I've been going to see a movie just about every weekend forever and I for the life of me never saw any trailers for this when it was out and can't beleave I've never seen it on TV or Cable. Looks like I have a new movie to watch.
shareYour better off .. it's not too good.
shareYes this film did not get a lot of advertising. I didn't even know it existed until about 2002, a year after it had been released. It wasn't a big box office hit or anything but it did fairly well, staying in the Top 10 for the first 4 weeks it was out.
shareIt came out right around or a few days after 9-11, so it did not get much press or attention at all. It looked really bad from the previews, nothing like the first 2. I tried watching it last night and it is just so wrong for a sequel. The first 2 were more adult comedies, the 2nd more crime/action. The first 2 were well done, had a good score, shot very well, more serious, they actually seemed like everyone cared about making a good movie.
Then you get to the third one and it is shot like a cheesy tv movie, it is acted like a cheesy tv movie(did the actors especially Linda forget how to act?), jokes are horrible, forced, and amateurish, the score was totally different and sounded like something from a cheesy made for tv kids movie. The 3rd one became a light safe kids movie caricature of the first 2 very well done movies, it totally felt like it did not belong and was a different movie/franchise altogether. There is no way those characters like Mick, Sue, Naga, etc would become that way after seeing them in the first 2.
His buddy in the 3rd one is the same guy who was hired to track and kill Mick in the second one by the drug dealers, how does that guy suddenly become a nice guy and good friends with Mick.
There were a few parts that were a little funny and it was a little interesting seeing Mick in some different situations but the characters who were created and built up from the first 2 are completely wasted in this. The only way they could have screwed up more is if they made the 3rd one into a very depressing drama with them fighting all the time, delving into heavy drug use/alcoholism, divorce, depression, getting sick, one of them gets killed, etc with no real story.
Bottom line a kid/family friendly amateurish sequel is totally wrong to 2 previous movies that were more big budget adult comedy oriented, had scenes of drug use, prostitution, pimps, F word in first one, heavy swearing, bar fights, crocs almost killing people, drug dealers, people getting killed in the second one, etc. Fans should just stick to the first 2, the third one is just too far off to really be a sequel and it is more of a caricature of the first 2 well done movies.
So would you say its not even worth downloading on torrent?
They think we're the demons now - Prue Halliwell ~ All Hell Breaks Loose ~ Charmed
Paul Hogan quite obviously waited too long to come out w/ a third Croc movie (13 years after the last one). By this point, most people had moved on. Mick Dundee isn't exactly as big of a pop cultural icon as say Indiana Jones, to warrant such a demand after a long hiatus in-between movies. I just feel (just like when Eddie Murphy came out w/ a third Beverly Hills Cop movie seven years after the last one, back in 1987) that Mick Dundee is too intertwined w/ 1980s pop culture to really fit in well on screen two decades later.
shareI've just watched it. Strange to see a more aged Paul Hogan as I always picture him in the earlier Crocodile Dundee movies. It's very much an afterthought. I've rated it 5/10. Fab poster for this film I think.
shareWhat's weird is that Paul Hogan was already pushing 50 when he did the first Crocodile Dundee movie (he may have been about 45-46 when he shot it and it was released) from 1986. But he still made it work because he appeared to keep himself in shape. But in the third movie, he's now at least 13 years older from when he last saw him.
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