A NY journalist travels to the Australian Outback to write a feature on a famed bushman. She ends up taking him back to NYC to round off her article. All the while these two opposites develop an attraction to one and other.
Crocodile Dundee is a textbook fish out of water film. The romantic sub-plot is predictable and the general jist of the humour is as you would expect. But the movie really works primarily because of Paul Hogan's turn as the title character. He is very convincing - too convincing perhaps as he has been typecast ever since. He captures Mick Dundee's confidence at home in Aus, as well as his naivety in New York. And as this latter factor is the basis for most of the comedy, it's the strongest section of the film. There are numerous funny encounters with various New York denizens. And while it's not exactly a hilarious movie, it's certainly a likeably humorous one.
Whatever you do though, watch out for the edited pre-watershed TV version of this film that seems to be broadcast regularly. It's missing loads of the humour. The cocaine scene has been entirely removed as well as half-a-dozen of the funniest lines that have been deemed as being too risqué. It's annoying, so beware. Try and catch the original movie free of this silly interference.
Crocodile Dundee is a textbook fish out of water film. The romantic sub-plot is predictable and the general jist of the humour is as you would expect. But the movie really works primarily because of Paul Hogan's turn as the title character. He is very convincing - too convincing perhaps as he has been typecast ever since. He captures Mick Dundee's confidence at home in Aus, as well as his naivety in New York. And as this latter factor is the basis for most of the comedy, it's the strongest section of the film. There are numerous funny encounters with various New York denizens. And while it's not exactly a hilarious movie, it's certainly a likeably humorous one.
Whatever you do though, watch out for the edited pre-watershed TV version of this film that seems to be broadcast regularly. It's missing loads of the humour. The cocaine scene has been entirely removed as well as half-a-dozen of the funniest lines that have been deemed as being too risqué. It's annoying, so beware. Try and catch the original movie free of this silly interference.