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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 68606
Released: August 5, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Paul Hogan's hilarious endearing performance made "Crocodile" Dundee the biggest box-office comedy smash of 1986! Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee (Hogan) is a free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands stares down giant water buffaloes and drinks mere mortals under the table. But he's about to face the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City. Beautiful and tenacious reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) gets more than just a story as the "wonder from Down Under" rocks the Big Apple to its core.System Requirements:Running Time: 97 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097361378848 Manufacturer No: 137884
Description of Crocodile Dundee:
This 1986 comedy out of Australia is so old-fashioned in its romantic charm that one can't help but wonder what it would have looked like with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in the leads. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine anyone besides Paul Hogan as the title character, a laid-back Aussie tracker who shows an American reporter (Linda Kozlowski) around bush country, then accompanies her to New York City. Sure, Hollywood has done the fish-out-of-water scenario to death in the last 20 years, and while this film has sufficient sport with the gimmick, it is largely driven by the principal characters and their developing love affair. Hogan cowrote the script and director Peter Faiman evokes the goofy, enchanted air of screwball comedies. The climactic scene, set in a subway station with scores of bystanders witnessing a conversation about relationship commitment, feels like vintage Capra. --Tom Keogh
Crocodile Dundee Reviews:
Classic 
2009-09-14 - Now this was a super movie released originally back in 1986.Some of the comedy in this movie was outstanding.I like it the best of all 3 of them.
Some of my favorite moments are- just every thing that happened in that pub,
I liked the part when he went to meet with the aboriginals,she was spying on them,she asked him if he was telepathic,he responded naaa your a woman and a reporter.He just knew she would be there,by common sense huh.When he was going up the escalator,and onto the plane,that was hilarious.
So many parts were as funny as.That scene towards the end where he walked across the people was a classic.He loved that woman and ended up marrying her,and in real life too,amazing things happen.
Definite favorite movie,problem is i have seen it so many times now.Still love it though.
Winning Formula Made This A Big Hit
2009-01-31 - When you mix good comedy with action and a very likable leading character you get a hit movie. I never met anyone who didn't like this film, although there are always detractors to any movie.
However, this was an extremely entertaining film that made an international star out of Australian Paul Hogan. Two sequels followed this one. They were good, too, but could not measure up to this effort in box-office appeal.
Not only was this a big success for Hogan and everyone else connected with it, but I believe he got a wife out of this wife, going on to marry his co-star Linda Kozlowski.
Hogan, as crocodile man "Mick Dundee" made the rest of the world aware of a number of Aussie phrases. Few men played as manly as likeable and charismatic a hero in the 1980s as Hogan and "Mick Dundee."
Over 20 years later, this is still a fun movie to watch now and then.
Likable Paul Hogan and lovely Linda Kozlowski in a FUN adventure
2008-05-27 - Linda Kozlowski plays a reporter who goes to the Australian Outback to do a story on Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, Played by Paul Hogan. She gets a good taste of Dundee's simple Tarzan-like life in the wilderness and decides to invite him to New York City. Dundee is a fish-out-of-water in the big city, of course, but it doesn't take him long to adapt, and the New Yorkers love him. Linda and Dundee naturally start to fall in love despite the fact that she has an arrogant fiance.
"Crocodile Dundee" was released in 1986 and spawned two sequels in 1988 and 2001. It successfully combines 3 genres or themes -- romantic comedy, adventure and fish-out-of-water.
What makes the film work so well is the simple charisma of Paul Hogan. You'll likely never experience a more likable protagonist. On top of this, Linda Kozlowski is both likable and lovely, possessing an attractive spirituality and intelligence.
Paul and Linda have great chemistry. The chemistry is real seeing as how they would marry four years later in 1990. This is funny in light of the fact that one of Roger Ebert's main criticisms of the film was their supposed lack of chemistry. I love Roger Ebert. He's a great writer and critic, but he obviously missed it big on this one!
"Crocodile Dundee" was the most successful Australian film ever. It only runs about 90 minutes before the credits start. This is great because romantic comedies like "Dundee" are light fare; there's simply no reason to go much longer than an hour and a half. In other words, "Dundee" doesn't overstay its welcome.
~A blast from the Past~
2007-08-08 - I remember watching this movie when it can out in 1986 & loving it! I was so happy when it was released on DVD in 2001. It is such a funny, adventurous & feel good movie. Paul Hogan is so FUNNY & his character is so endearing! You will laugh at his innocence as he leaves the Outback to explore the Big Apple! I L-o-v-e this movie as well as the next 2 installments of Dundee.
Good day mate!
2007-07-16 - Paul Hogan aka Crocodile Dundee enchants the audience with his rugged good lucks and animalistic characteristics- This is the original Croc movie or Crocodile Dundee I where a reporter from New York comes to Australia to write an article on the Outback but ends up getting much more! The infamous seen where the croc jumps out of the swamp and bites her water bottle while Mic Dundee jumps in and saves the day by knifing him between the eyes! Mic then agrees to come back to NYC with her where he gets a taste of city-life or in other words city-life gets a taste of Dundee!!! In the end, the touching bus scene where the report screams out over the crowd that "she's love ya" ends the movie and leads us into the next of three of the Crocodile Dundee trilogy!~
