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Light Comedy done with Some Class.
This thrid (and I think the best) of the Crocodile Dundee films directed by Simon Wincer, finds Paul Hogan once again playing the man from the Austrailan outback, Linda Kolowski also returns as Sue, the love of his life, and Serge Cockburn plays their son, Mikey, and this rather unqie family travels from Austraila to The United States where Sue accepts a job from her newspaper dad to temporary run the LA newspaper office there. Once there, they uncover laughs and adventure as they come across what looks like a theft of rare paintings taking place at a nearby movie studio. Photography of the Austrailan outback is quite outstanding in this film and the comedy is mostly family friendly. The movie also includes cameo apperances by several actors including Nicholas Hammond who played Spider-Man back in the late 1970's. Music by Basil Poledouris.

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One of Hollywood¿s more family friendly comedies ¿but flawed
The return of Crocodile Dundee for a third movie was greeted with a great deal of applause: hooray for a good old fashioned family friendly comedy. But is it?

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles features the return of Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee, once again starring in his humorous fish-out-of-the-water role. This time Dundee travels with his common-law-wife and son to Los Angeles, where he helps her uncover a smuggling ring. The action sequences and climax at the end all have their humour, but the real fun occurs throughout the movie, with Dundee the naïve Australian in the big American city. Most of the humour revolves around cultural differences and pokes fun at American culture and America's own holy grails: the fast food industry, the movie business. Some of the highlights that come to mind are a scene where Dundee chokes up the expressway while trying to rescue a skunk, the drive-through at Wendys, and the drive-by mugging which backfired. Added to the cultural jokes are slap stick humor typical of a comedy where the villains are treated to a variety of appropriate punishments. And the scenes of Australia (with a local aborigine using a mobile phone) are equally charming. All family friendly so far, although the amount of violence and the tense chase scene involving gun-toting thugs and hungry lions at the end would be frightening for youngsters.

Somewhat more disturbing, however, are the oblique and more incidental aspects of the movie. There are several foul mouthed expressions, and around half a dozen instances of blasphemy. Is this really necessary? Apparently so. But that's not the worst of it. The movie is filled with sexual innuendoes, with numerous ogling of rear ends and comments like "nice butt", and scantily clad babes are abundant - there's a hardly a modestly dressed female to be seen. The abundant cleavage and short skirts and provocative comments does little to discourage lustful thoughts. And Mick & Sue's eventual marriage merely serves to make their earlier common-law relationship "official." But to top it off, there are several jokes about homosexuality, including a scene where Dundee and his companion enter a gay cross-dressing bar. Producers, it seems, are determined to include references to homosexuality, in order to make us desensitized to an immoral lifestyle. They are already succeeding, as evidenced in the fact that many speak of this movie as "family friendly all the way." Be warned that it's not "all the way" family friendly, because although this is a PG movie, by introducing your children to Crocodile Dundee you are introducing them to profanity and immorality in abundance. Even the fact that Dundee takes the law into his own hands by breaking and entering in order nab the villains does little to encourage respect for authority. Mick Dundee may a better hero than most of Hollywood's offerings, but even he lacks some of the old fashioned morals that America once had.

The standards are indeed slipping. By society's standards, it is a relatively clean movie. But the standards of today are already so low, that even the cleanest of movies has a great deal of filth lurking underneath. The waters of Crocodile Dundee may have been declared clean by many, but beware that the crocodiles of immorality are lurking close at hand, ready to nibble away whatever morals your children may have left.

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Don't Do It
Don't rent it, don't watch it, don't borrow it from the library, and most of all don't buy it. I can't think of any reason why this movie was made. Hopefully someone was able to make a mortgage payment, but that is the only upside I can hope for.

I loved the original Croc Dundee. I thought it was witty, and warm, and a lot of fun. I thought the 2 leads had amazing chemistry. They have NO chemistry is this movie. NONE. They were barely in any scenes together, which is a shame. It's almost as if they are in two separate movies that intersect every now and then.

THe story is so contrived- she has to help her Father out- they come to LA (no- I can't beleive they live in Walkabout Creek full time), she gets enmeshed in a story, Mick yet again saves her by getting to the route of the problem, blah, blah, blah. What happened to the strong female character from the first movie? What happened to laughs? I saw nothing cute, charming, or other in this movie.