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Is it too far-fetched for Mick to still be actively naïve and uncultured?


Like he's never heard of Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson (ironically, a fellow Australian) and when he goes to the the Wendy's drive-through, he literally thinks that the he's speaking to Wendy herself.

It isn't like Mick Dundee hasn't been to America before this movie. In fact, at the start of the second movie, he's seen to be still in New York with Sue.

And like I said, I would figure that being around Sue would help Mick become more cultured, civilized, and more in-tune with American life. So why is he still written like some sheltered hick?

We see Mick and his family living in a nice house in Australia, and his son presumably goes to a nice school there. So it isn't like he hasn't gained any sort of "class" or "sophistication".

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THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY PROBLEMS THIS FILM CAME OUT OF THE GATE WITH.

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It isn't that uncommon for people past a certain age to just not keep up with or engage with modern culture, especially in the pre-internet/social media era.

As I remember this, much of it felt like it was written pretty soon after the second film and given a simple polish to apply to 2001. For example, the bit where Dundee shows his friend from Australia the Wendys as if it is something they would have never seen before, but then Dundee himself acknowledges those kind of drive-thrus were pretty prominent in Australia by 2001, but for some reason it's treated as if it would hold some kind of fascination for them.

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So true. If I, a person past sixty, were to find myself at a drive-through, I would certainly believe Wendy was inside cooking burgers, and I was actually speaking to her. You young people and your crazy mixed up technology baffle me!

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They went full sheltered-hick and left the Oscars empty-handed.

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