Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

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Movie
German title Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Original title Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Country of production USA
Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Simon Wincer
script Eric Abrams
Matthew Berry
Paul Hogan
production Paul Hogan
Lance Hool
Kathy Morgan
Jim Reeve
Steve Robbins
music Basil Poledouris
camera David Burr
Ted Chu
cut Terry Blythe
occupation
chronology

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Crocodile Dundee II

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is a comedy film directed by Simon Wincer and starring Paul Hogan . The US-Australian co-production from 2001 is the sequel to the two films Crocodile Dundee - A Crocodile to Kiss from 1986 and Crocodile Dundee II from 1988.

action

Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee and Sue Charlton are still not married, although they have a son, Mikey. Meanwhile, Mick organizes mock hunting shows for the tourists. His main rival in the business is another survivor named Jacko. When Sue is needed for the fatal accident of an employee in her father's newspaper company, the family moves to Los Angeles without further ado .

In Los Angeles it turns out that the death of the newspaper employee was apparently no coincidence, but that he was murdered while researching the background of the production of the action film series Deadly Agent . Mick hires the project as a zoo keeper to investigate undercover. He notices that behind the scenes pictures are secretly being loaded that come as props from Eastern Europe. Dundee shows a museum employee the photos of the paintings, which are by Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh , among others . The museum employee thinks it must be forgeries, as the originals were destroyed in a museum in Belgrade during the Kosovo war . Mick suspects that the pictures could be saved in time and are now to be smuggled into the USA. He promises the museum employee to bring him a picture so that he can prove its authenticity.

During the night Mick breaks into the film studios, Sue and Jacko wait at the fence. He is noticed stealing a picture. First he can escape the smugglers, but they bring Sue and Jacko into their power and threaten them with guns. Dundee lures the smugglers into a jungle backdrop of the film studios. There he releases the lions he has trained and explains to the criminals that their only chance is to escape into the empty lion cage. When they do that, they can be set by him. The pictures actually turn out to be real, their value in the media being estimated at around 300 million US dollars.

Eventually Sue and Mick get married in the Australian wilderness. Sue throws the bridal bouquet, which a crocodile grabs, and Mick and Jacko unceremoniously go back to the crocodile hunt.

Reviews

Michael O'Sullivan described in the Washington Post on April 20, 2001, the screen presence of Paul Hogan as "tired" ( tired ), and mocked the actor could bring the audience to sleep. He continued to describe the film as "cheap", criticized the portrayal of Linda Kozlowski and, with reservations, praised the portrayal of Serge Cockburn .

The lexicon of the international film wrote: "Tired copy of a former hit comedy about a rough, popular figure who lacks the original flair and at best reproduces the old stereotypes."

Others

  • The production budget was approximately $ 21 million and the worldwide box office was approximately $ 39 million.
  • In German cinemas, the film recorded an audience of 445,323.
  • George Hamilton made a guest appearance in the film as the man at the bar talking to Michael about coffee and its uses.
  • Boxer Mike Tyson makes a brief appearance in the film as himself in the park. The German model and playmate Elke Jeinsen also plays a small role.

Awards

  • The film received a nomination for the negative award Golden Raspberry for Worst Sequel in 2002 .
  • The young Serge Cockburn was nominated for the Young Artist Award for best supporting actor in 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Critique in the Washington Post
  2. ↑ Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved September 9, 2018 .