Crocodile Dundee II ** (1988, Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 9190

Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, though there is less sharpness in the script this time around.

The rather boring drug baron tale Hogan has written with his son Brett Hogan upends the first story in Crocodile Dundee. The original starts in the Australian Outback and then moves to the Big Apple. Crocodile Dundee II starts in Manhattan and ends up in the bush.

Pleasant co-stars Linda Kozlowski (the star’s real-life wife) and John Meillon reprise their roles as visiting US reporter Sue Charlton and Walter Reilly. New York City drug lords are after Sue as she has evidence against them for murder, so Mick takes her back to Australia for safety, but the gangsters follow them.

If you like Hogan’s dry wit you will be entirely satisfied, but the mystery thriller story is just chucked away.

Also in the cast are Ernie Dingo, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernández, Charles S Dutton, Kenneth Welsh, Dennis Boutsikaris, Luis Guzmán, Alec Wilson, Gus Mercurio, Steve Rackman, Bill Sandy, Gerry Skilton and Mark Folger.

A sequel followed belatedly in 2001, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

Paul Hogan is to make a comeback as himself in The Very Excellent Mr Dundee (2020), with Danny McBride and Chris Hemsworth.

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 9190

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