Crocodile Dundee II

Name: Crocodile Dundee II
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: May 25, 1988
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Alec Wilson, Ernie Dingo, Gerry Skilton, Gus Mercurio, Jim Holt

1988

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 1988 | PG

Starring: Alec Wilson, Ernie Dingo, Gerry Skilton, Gus Mercurio, Jim Holt, John Meillon, Linda Kozlowski, Maggie Blinco, Paul Hogan, Steve Rackman

Summary: Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Director: John Cornell

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 108 min

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Kevin Thomas

Crocodile Dundee II is almost as much fun the second time around. As an adventure it's nothing special, yet it's an inspired and good-humored presentation of one of the freshest, most likable screen personalities to emerge in the past decade. [25 May 1988, p.1]

Bill Cosford

Croc, as played by the sinewy and appealing Paul Hogan, may be a fish out of water, but he's a formidable comic hero, a kind of Outback James Bond only less perturbable. And this sequel is actually a better film than the original, which was one of the movies' least likely success stories in 1986. [25 May 1988, p.D1]

Janet Maslin

Crocodile Dundee II has been attractively photographed, if unremarkably directed, and it aims for affable, low-key escapism just as the first film did. But the earlier one had novelty to keep it going, and this time the novelty has begun to wear thin, even if Mr. Hogan remains generally irresistible. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Paul Hogan has an easy plan: Simply be Mick Crocodile Dundee and the rest will follow. The rest is Crocodile Dundee II, and it doesn't follow so much as drag itself along like an alligator on dry land. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Crocodile Dundee II is a disappointing follow-up to the disarmingly charming first feature with Aussie star Paul Hogan. Sequel is too slow to constitute an adventure and has too few laughs to be a comedy. Read full review

Michal Oleszczyk

The sequel exacerbates problems already too evident in the first movie, most painfully the near-total disposability of Kozlowski’s Sue, who spends most of the time reacting to Mick’s quirks with chuckles. No battle of wits, no rejoinders. Sue accepts Mick’s ways wholesale; there’s never any hint at a possible tension between their lifestyles. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

It is much less understandable, and not at all forgivable, that in eschewing the culture-clash comedy of the first film for generic action, the filmmakers forgot they were making a comedy at all. Read full review

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OriginalDanger

Jul 6, 2020

Crocodile Dundee II is an adventure kind of action comedy made in 1988... It's the sequel to the original Crocodile Dundee film.... I did think once upon a time the original was much better but not sure if they are equal now due to how good Crocodile Dundee II actually is.. Paul HoganCrocodile Dundee II is an adventure kind of action comedy made in 1988... It's the sequel to the original Crocodile Dundee film.... I did think once upon a time the original was much better but not sure if they are equal now due to how good Crocodile Dundee II actually is.. Paul Hogan returns as Dundee and him and Sue Charlton played by Linda Kozlowski are living in New York so it's basically continuing on from the first... Some dude named Bob Tanner in Colombia takes pictures of a druglord killing somebody and Bob ends up dead. The druglord gets his men to kidnap Sue Charlton because they are convinced Bob sent her a letter and the film containing evidence of the murder. Then Crocodile Dundee storms their fortress with the help of a gang and rescues Sue in a clever way. Later Dundee and Sue hide out in Australia waiting for the druglord and his men to pursue them and it gets even grittier from there and pretty entertaining.... Crocodile Dundee II has many great moments like a jumper trying to throw himself off a building and Dundee himself nearly falls off it while trying to persuade him not to. We have Dundee dangling a badguy from rope upside down at the top of a building and Dundee even smashes through a window. We have great humour, shootouts, pursuits, great music and more fun and adventure than the first so it's a great sequel and there's some action and violence in this one unlike the original. Excellently directed I'd say this is a great film and follow up to the original. Also stars Juan Fernandez and Hechter Ubarry as Rico and of course John Meillon.… Expand

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 28, 2021

This sequel is the same as many other film sequels in terms of featuring a rather weak plot and relying on the same aspects of the first film to maintain the viewers interest and provide the comedy. I did think it was reasonably amusing and an easy watch to start with but the plot becameThis sequel is the same as many other film sequels in terms of featuring a rather weak plot and relying on the same aspects of the first film to maintain the viewers interest and provide the comedy. I did think it was reasonably amusing and an easy watch to start with but the plot became really quite weak certainly mid way through, although I can't say it was exactly unwatchable but I certainly felt quite distracted and some scenes made me cringe. I wasn't entirely comfortable with the Australian stereotypes present, especially the depiction of the aborigines, which seemed particularly un-PC by modern day standards. Still, there were some amusing moments, slapstick type moments with the titular character in New York, accidentally becoming involved in other peoples situations, to put it one way. There is some reasonable choreography present and its a reasonably alright watch for the first half but the 2nd half lets it down. Overall, I'm not greatly impressed but I suppose it could be worse. I wouldn't especially recommend it as such, no.… Expand

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Broyax

Aug 4, 2018

Au même sous-niveau que le premier, la suite des "aventures" du Capitaine kangourou ne surprend pas : elle sait rester con-stante dans la débilité. Cette fois, l'Australien tête de noeud au chapeau toujours vissé sur la tête s'occupe de narco-trafiquants pas gentils et faut pas lui enAu même sous-niveau que le premier, la suite des "aventures" du Capitaine kangourou ne surprend pas : elle sait rester con-stante dans la débilité. Cette fois, l'Australien tête de noeud au chapeau toujours vissé sur la tête s'occupe de narco-trafiquants pas gentils et faut pas lui en remontrer, car lui il pète la gueule aux crocos et il pèche à la dynamite.

On retrouve à la fois l'ennui, l'inutilité et l'humour gogol qui caractérise le personnage redresseur de torts, lequel se permet de rouler des mécaniques pendant tout le film alors qu'il ferait mieux d'aller se cacher dans une grotte. Ce flot de conneries ininterrompu a de quoi laisser perplexe mais nous rassérène aussi quelque peu : oui, nous on a Omar Sy et Franck Dubosc... eux, ils ont Paul Hogan. Et on lui tire notre chapeau à ce roi des golios !… Expand

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