Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Sequel to Crocodile Dundee, this is a decent attempt at a sequel with a good cast and a decent enough story to keep you entertained. The film is not as good as the first, but it's still good entertainment. Paul Hogan returns as Mick "Crocodile Dundee". This sequel is a decent follow-up and combines action and comedy well enough to entertain the viewer. Sure, the film isn't as good as the first, but the film is still fun. The cast do a good, and the story is engaging enough for you to be entertained and have a good time. The film is weaker than the first and does kind of drag out, but it manages to be fun nonetheless. This is a decent comedy and the plot should keep you interested. Fans of the first may enjoy this, but of course it's not as good as the first. For what it is, Crocodile Dundee II does entertain and manages to be a fun film but it's clear that the story could have been improved upon. As a sequel is concerned, this film is much better than most. Of course, the film lacks the fire of the original, but for what it is, the film is a decent action comedy with a story that's entertaining enough to please fans of the first. I enjoyed this film, but not like the first. The film, like I said was a tad weak, but despite this fact; it's still amusing. For a sequel, Crocodile Dundee II is better than most that's for sure.
Mick Dundee and Sue Charlton are now living in New York. Everybody likes him although he doesn't always fit in. He befriends Leroy Brown and starts delivering for him. Sue's ex-husband Bob is working for the DEA in Colombia. He gets killed by the cartel after sending some photos to Sue. Sue is kidnapped by thugs and Mick comes to the rescue. After escaping, Mick takes Sue back to Australia where he's most comfortable.Crocodile Dundee remains a fun character but the novelty has worn out. Everything that was forgiven in the first movie is now sticking out like a sore thumb. Linda Kozlowski remains a stiff actress. This sequel tries to ramp up the intensity by adding a drug lord. This is inferior but there may still be some life left for lovers of the original.
"Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) Not As Good As First "Crocodile Dundee" Movie Due To Writing Problems In Part Two.The first "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) movie was a wonderful comedy.The second "Crocodile Dundee" (1988) movie was intended to cash in on the first movie, which it probably did....it probably made much more money for the owners of the movie than the first movie did.Nobody expected the first movie to be a big hit. Everybody expected the second movie to be a hit, and movie owners could (probably did) cut great deals with movie house owners, television presentation people, and sellers of VHS and DVD home videos.The second movie made the owners much richer than the first movie did.But.........sadly, it wasn't (isn't) as good a movie as the first one.Old story with comedies of fame...going back to "The Thin Man" (1934) which was a big, unexpected hit when it first came out, and resulted in many sequels, none as good as the first movie.There are exceptions to the rule that follow-up movies are never as good as initial movies...."Godfather II" (1974) is an example.An example closer to home is the original Johnny Weismuller "Tarzan" (1932) movie which was followed up by an even better "Tarzan" sequel titled "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934 which co-starred the lovely Maureen O'Sullivan (Mia Farrow's mother!) who swam totally nude with her handsome husband, Johnny Weismuller as "Tarzan" in a sort of underwater ballet quite breathtaking to see, and quite tasteful, nude though the dancers were in pre-code 1934 times."Crocodile Dundee" (1986) is sometimes compared to "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942) which uses the same jokes......yokel Tarzan from darkest Africa comes to NYC, dresses up in tuxedos, goes to night clubs, rides subways, and doesn't fit in....very funny! The owners of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie series would have done well to pattern the second "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) movie after "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934) and could have made a much better movie if they followed the "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934) example (BTW, "Tarzan And His Mate" 1934 is honored by inclusion on the Library Of Congress National Film Registry List....best "best movies" list of all, to my thinking...and the first "Tarzan" Johnny Weismuller movie isn't!).Linda Kozlowski, a lovely, Julliard NYC Drama School graduate of both high acting talent and skills (and also very pretty in her 20's in the 1980's) could have done much more than she did in the "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) movie, where she and Paul Hogan are already "mated" and committed, and there is no more electricity based on courtship and "the chase" seen in the first movie.Oh well........we are "too soon old and too late smart" and so is Hollywood (including the Australia part of Hollywood responsible for the Crocodile Dundee movies).Here are reasons the first Crocodile Dundee (1986), aka "Part One," is better than the second one: Part One (1986) showed a "fish out of water" pretty girl reporter (Linda Kozlowski) in Australia, and then a "fish out of water" Australian comic male hero (Paul Hogan) trying to survive in the New York City of the mid-1980's.Part One worked because it presented non-stop "fish out of water" jokes and situations all well acted by Hogan and Kozlowski.Part One wasn't serious and didn't try to be.Great photography of rural Australia and of up-scale New York City and suburbs.Part One made fun of strange types in both settings, and the main actors did a good job as comics reacting to the strange types.Good enough.The Part One movie was a hit.Part Two wasn't as good because it tried to get serious, got away from the main value of Part One, which was that both rural Australia and New York City of the 1980's are strange for people there for the first time reacting to all they see and must put up with.Part Two was an imperfect action movie, not as good as Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Pierce Brosnan, Matt Damon, Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Jason Statham, etc. etc. movies, and not as funny as the first Crocodile Dundee (1986) movie.Neither Paul Hogan nor his leading lady from Part One, Linda Kozlowski have the chance to "show their stuff" as they did often in Part One ("showing their stuff" was what made the first movie a big hit).Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski are good actors, but the writing of Part Two just wasn't as good or "on the mark" as was the writing for Part One.Sadly, this is a common story regarding sequels trying to cash in on big initial hit movies, but slowed down because sequels become committee projects always less likely have singular vision of the sort which makes initial hit movies good, but hard to duplicate when committees take over.---------------------- Tex (David) Allen is a SAG-AFTRA east coast movie actor who has written almost 100 movie reviews for both the Amazon and IMDb databases.More about Tex Allen at the IMDb website.See IMDb database for details about Tex (David) Allen.Send emails to Tex Allen to [email protected]
The first film was a big hit at the cinema, so the obvious thing to do would be to give it a sequel and see if they can create the same success, with similar themes to the predecessor. Basically Australian crocodile hunter Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan) has stayed and continued to try and adapt to life in New York since falling in love with journalist Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). Some gangsters have been pursuing Sue after her ex-husband photographer Bob Tanner (Dennis Boutsikaris) took photos of a brutal crime he witnessed, and he sent them to her. Crime boss Luis Rico (Hechter Ubarry) and his associates are holding Sue against her will, and Mick is determined to get her back no matter what, and he has some unlikely friends to help. When she is rescued, Mick decides it is a good idea to protect Sue by taking her home to Australia, but of course Rico and the gang track them down to try and get their own way. In the end, the gangsters are defeated, and Mick and Sue are safe and sound thanks to his skills of the outback, and that is where they stay. Also starring John Meillon as Walter Reilly, Juan Fernández as Miguel, Ernie Dingo as Charlie, Steve Rackman as Donk, Gerry Skilton as Nugget, Gus Mercurio as Frank, Jim Holt as Erskine, Alec Wilson as Denning, Maggie Blinco as Ida and Luis Guzmán as Jose. Hogan is once again a nice friendly character, but he does show a slightly aggressive side using weapons, and Kozlowski, who married Hogan two years later, is still good too, the story is rather patchy, the kidnap ans rescue plot is alright, and the stuff that happens in Australia is not bad, it is not as good as the first film, but it's not such a terrible comedy adventure. Okay!