This new
addition to the Crocodile
Dundee franchise is one of the worst things that ever happened in
2001. By the end of the film, you feel like Paul Hogan should pay you back for
sitting through it. From the get-go, the movie lacks vision and entertainment
value. If it were a direct-to-DVD movie, it would have made more sense.
There was
definitely no reason for them to make this movie, but they did anyway and put
it out there for us to see and dislike. This movie was so bad that I couldn’t
believe it even made it off the storyboard. Dundee (Paul Hogan) and Sue (Linda
Kozlowski) are now together for about 15 years and have a son named Michael,
after his father.
While living in
Australia, Sue gets a call from her father asking her to come help hold down
his office (a newspaper company) in Los Angeles while he attends to other
matters. Sue—after Dundee says that he and their son Michael will go
along—accepts the offer and moves with her family to Los Angeles. There, both
father and son are kind of out of place and even make the news for not
understanding how things work in America.
The antagonist
in this one is a phony movie production company, and in this flick, we get to
see Dundee go undercover. A side story to the main plot involves Dundee and Sue
not being married for the entire 15 years they’ve been together. Sue wants to
get married but isn’t pushing it, while Dundee just isn’t manning up to do the
right thing.
Trust me, after
reading this review, just run away from this flick. It’s not worth the one hour
and thirty minutes I put into it.
In this movie,
Hogan is old, and so is Sue. The whole cute, lovable couple isn’t so cute
anymore. Then there are scenes where we see some ladies go gaga for Dundee. I’m
no woman, but that guy looked old and out of it, so I didn’t see the
attraction.
I felt the makers wanted to see if they could still make more money off the franchise, but this $21 million production only made $39 million at the box office. Maybe the DVD sales helped later on—I don’t know. But one thing I’m glad about is that I don’t think there will be a Crocodile Dundee IV.
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