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This almost feels like it was made for TV or straight to DVD

posted 2 years ago by TMC-4 (20179)
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I don't know how to properly explain other than the previous two Crocodile Dundee movies from the '80s felt more "epic" in their scope. The first one functioned as kind of an travelogue to the Australian outback as well as a cute fish out of water tale when Mick Dundee gets to New York City. The second one rose the stakes by having Mick take on a gang of Columbian drug-dealers, so it was decidedly more suspenseful and action-oriented.

The first two also while having their funny moments (mainly from a naïve Aussie redneck in Mick Dundee trying to understand American culture) they were still pretty dark and semi-serious and made mostly for adults. It isn't that they couldn't be enjoyed by kids, but the first two movies still featured stuff like cocaine abuse, transvestites, and prostitution.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8757) 2 years ago

You're not wrong. I recall going to see this movie in the theater and was really hoping for a GOOD Crocodile Dundee movie, and it sucked. It felt low-budget and, as you say, like a kids' movie.

I have no idea what anyone involved was thinking. Surely they could've come up with something better than THIS, something that actually felt like it was a proper follow-up to the first two.

[–] TMC-4 (20179) 2 years ago

Also, there really wasn't anything "new" that Paul Hogan had to say in the third movie other than his character now has a kid with Sue Charlton. It feels like a watered down, toothless (especially pertaining to its attempts at satirizing Hollywood) version of Beverly Hills Cop (if Axel Foley was Australian instead of from Detroit) right down to having Jonathan Banks as an antagonist.

I mean, Mick Dundee isn't really a "fish out of water" in a traditional sense since this isn't the first time that he has been to America and encountered their culture. So the whole naïve foreigner act in the third one isn't as endearing as it may have been in the first movie.