The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, and his wife Terri work to save the animals of the Australian outback. An US satellite beacon has fallen out of the sky and landed in Australia. It gets swallowed by a crocodile. CIA agents are sent to retrieve it. American agent Jo Buckley is also sent to get the beacon to use in inter-agency politics. Cattle station owner Brozzie Drewitt is also looking the kill the croc on her lands. Australian Government Fisheries worker Sam Flynn tries to relocate the croc by hiring the Irwins before Brozzie shoots it.Steve Irwin has an infectious charm. His act is great. There is a natural magnetism about him. Sadly, this movie decides to tie him to this silly international spy stuff. Then the movie adds the terribly broad Magda Szubanski. The whole thing is schizophrenic. I'm perfectly happy to watch Steve wrestle a crocodile. Somebody needs to make a good movie around him. This is not that movie.

I've always watched the Crocodile Hunter and Croc Files, and when I heard that Steve Irwin was making a Crocodile Hunter movie, I just HAD to buy it. I don't care what people say about too many snakes or anything else...He does what he believes in and if it looks fake or anything else, it doesn't matter. Steve has made an impact on people's lives and continues to do so. I hope that when my time comes, he'll be the one at the gate to heaven that will guide me through. I hope that I will make friends with him and continue to eternally. And I'm sure he has touched everyone's hearts as much as he as mine. The day that he left this earth was a tragedy upon us all. I cried and cried and I can never watch his show because when I see his face, I start to cry, because I know that he's not with us anymore. So, Rest in Peace, Steve.

I saw this movie in the theaters and, though the plot was thin, i was watching a man who adored what he was doing and that made it a thrilling experience.The story was basically there to give the croc hunter something to work with while doing the usual showcasing of his passion. It wasn't necessarily a longer episode of his show - it was an actual story happening as he is filming a show and, even when the bad guys are after, he's still talking to the camera, to us, like we're watching a show. i found that as a brilliant take as opposed to Steve Irwin just acting like he was in the movie and we were just watching. He brought us right in.People thought he was silly and even nuts - but now we all know that there will never be another Steve Irwin and i don't know how soon it will be before we find another person as devoted to wild life as he was.God bless Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin is a big loud-mouthed Ozzie. He habitually talks directly into the camera- about the next big cool thing he's going to do. About the next deadly beast he's gonna wrangle. And then he does it. In America we might call a person such as this a "good old boy", whilst laughing up our sleeves. This is just wrong. There are Americans who are just like good old Steve. Far too few. Some Americans like to fish around in a stream, looking for a big old catfish, in whose mouth a man might stick his entire forearm. This is called "noodling". The man then raises up the big-ass catfish and flops the catch onto the bank. This man I call a "man". Steve Irwin is completely brave. He is remarkable. He is a talented, but yet amateur actor. His wife the same. This movie is an extension of his TV show, where he routinely handles deadly creatures with great skill. I say: Good on him. All the creatures on this earth are blessed creatures. Mr Irwin demonstrates this clearly when he slams the brakes on the Landrover and stops to handle and then basically massage a highly venomous killer snake as if it were a family pet, 2 minutes into this uncut scene. This is really good for the soul of a man. The plot of this movie is extraneous-about CIA spies and NRO officials and a downed satellite that ends up in a crocodile's gullet. Steve Irwin and his wife are beautiful creatures who walk this earth with great skill and love. I love these people. I hope and pray I might someday be as fine as they seem to be. This is a family feature that just makes a man feel great to be alive. How do you describe a man like Irwin who asks his wife to " lie on top of the crocodile while I go ashore"? Or a wife who covers the eyes of a croc to help it stay calm? Perhaps I am naive. Go lie on top of a wild crocodile and report back to me. Postscript: Steve Irwin is now dead, as of yesterday circa 11am in the Great Barrier Reef. A stingray somehow found a way to stab Irwin right in the heart with its stinger. How odd is that? Mr Irwin and his cameraman perhaps surrounded the bull-ray in shallow water and the ray just struck out in self defense. Right in the heart. That is phenomenal. The guy who wrote Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, speaks of the slaughter of a gigantic pig in Spain, attempted by four adult men, who were kicked in the testicles repeatedly by the putupon pig, in a very consistent manner. Coincidence? I don't think so. The assumption of people that animals are stupid-that they are plastic or malleable or stupid-or more importantly-that they have no theological/existential/metaphysical sense is perhaps a mistake of our human race. This sounds illogical. It sounds squishy and unfounded. It insults our intelligence. Such as it is. Human beings are a beautiful gift in themselves to the world. They cannot be correctly described in their brilliance and majesty and wonder. I suspect that we human beings have fallen short in our estimation of animals. We turn them into hamburger and gloves and lipstick- and yet we know nothing-in truth- about them. They are space-aliens to us, because we do not live in their skins. I submit Steve Irwin loved every gosh-darned animal he ever met. I cry over his death. Life is a ridiculous assertion.