Crocodile Dundee II

"The world's favorite adventurer is back for more. Much more!"

1988 1h 51m EN

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5.9

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12%

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5.7

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★5.9TMDB · 1,277🥫12%Rotten Tomatoes●41Metacritic★5.7IMDB · 64,122

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Synopsis

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

“The world's favorite adventurer is back for more. Much more!”

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Cast

Paul Hogan
Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee
Linda Kozlowski
Sue Charlton
John Meillon
Walter Reilly
Ernie Dingo
Charlie
Charles S. Dutton
Leroy Brown
Hechter Ubarry
Luis Rico
Juan Fernández
Miguel
Luis Guzmán
Jose

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Cornell
Writers: Paul Hogan, Brett Hogan
Languages: English
Countries: Australia

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MONEY

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Grossed $240M — a 17.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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38 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Crocodile Dundee Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by John Cornell, shot by Russell Boyd. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Peter Best. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor David Stiven shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski and John Meillon carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The world's favorite adventurer is back for more. Much more!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

John Cornell directs. Russell Boyd behind the camera. Peter Best scores. David Stiven cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Australia. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $240M — a 17.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
238 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Crocodile Dundee Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by John Cornell, shot by Russell Boyd. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Peter Best. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor David Stiven shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski and John Meillon carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The world's favorite adventurer is back for more. Much more!".
9IMDB entry: tt0092493 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Original score: Peter Best
Editing: David Stiven
Production design: Lawrence Eastwood
Costume design: Norma Moriceau
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $14,000,000
Box office: $239,606,210
Return: 1711% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes: 12% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 41/100
IMDB rating: 5.7/10 · 64,122 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

2 wins total

Part of

Crocodile Dundee Collection

"Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, whose character was inspired by the late Rodney Ansell. Hogan's future wife Linda Kozlowski portrayed Sue Charlton. Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell. There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and the American/international version, the latter of which had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms, and was slightly shorter. The international version also changes the title to "Crocodile" Dundee, adding the quotation marks. The film was followed by two sequels: "Crocodile" Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001).

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John Chard2014-09-26
★ 6.5/10
The Crocodile Who Walks Like a Man. After the coinage and all round good will generated by the first Crocodile Dundee movie, the sequel was inevitable. This time the formula is reversed as Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is forced to take his lady, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), back to the wilds of Australia in order to protect her from gangsters. There, Mick, with all his Outback skills, starts to pick the gangsters off one by one. Nah. I don't need a gun. I got a Donk! Within the plot structure there are numerous occasions for Dundee inspired jokes and scenarios, where although they are not as strong as in the first movie, they are amusing and not straining for the laugh factor. The genuine chemistry between real life couple Hogan and Kozlowski is evident and keeps the film grounded in warmth. Hogan is such a likable guy, he's a natural at playing the rugged adventurer type, and it's his charisma that rightly drives the picture forward. He throws a great punch as well, very believable. Returning characters like Wally and Donk are reassuring presences, while Charles Dutton as Leroy Brown provides solid comedy foil for Dundee during the New York part of the plot. The Northern Territory of Australia is once again the visual bonus (cinematography again by Russell Boyd), though we never really get the sweeping shots the setting deserves, and Peter Best once again provides an appropriate musical score for the two continent setting without pushing anything new on us. Problems elsewhere? There's a raft of stereotypes, particularly with the Ernie Dingo led villains, while the unoriginality of the story (a rehash of the first film) is a touch frustrating. Not exactly great and not deserving of the ill advised second sequel that followed 13 years later, part 2 of Mick and Sue's adventures is none the less still a fun way to spend an afternoon. 6.5/10
talisencrw2016-05-14
★ 6/10
I remember enjoying the film's star Paul Hogan's commercials for 'Foster's Lager', on television back in the day, when I was growing up. His identification with Australia, and the outback, made him original and gave him worldwide fame. Though I never bothered with the much-more esteemed original, which came from nowhere and captured the imagination of filmgoers worldwide, this was charming and likeable despite its unimportance and relative inanity. The small barrel of jokes wear thin after a while, and the magic ran out as it did for the 'Romancing the Stone' sequel, 'The Jewel of the Nile', not much earlier, or more recently, the insipid retread of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. Their decent attempt to capture lightning in a bottle unfortunately fell short. One could envision that if this couple existed in real life, their entrenched philosophical differences would mount, and they would end up breaking up after a few years, at most. This is the sort of thing that only works 'in the movies'.
Wuchak2019-01-28
★ 7/10
Mick & Sue vie with Columbian drug lords in New York City and, then, the Outback Sue (Linda Kozlowski) inadvertently obtains evidence against two Central American brothers who are drug moguls with offices in New York City. To protect Sue, Mick (Paul Hogan) takes her to his vast property in the Outback, but the gangsters follow them with murder on their minds. This sequel does precisely what a good sequel should do: Carry on the story, go deeper with the characters and keep the spirit of the original. “Crocodile Dundee II” (1988) cost $6 million more than the original 1986 movie and runs 11 minutes longer. It was a hit at the box office, albeit nowhere near as successful as the first film. Both movies effectively combine three genres or themes: romantic comedy, fun adventure and fish-out-of-water. What makes these films work so well beyond the Tarzan-like spirit of adventure is the simple charisma of Paul Hogan. You'll likely never experience a more likable protagonist. On top of this, Linda Kozlowski is lovely and celestial, possessing an attractive intelligence. Paul & Linda’s chemistry is real seeing as how they would marry two years later in 1990. Unfortunately they divorced in 2014, but they gave us a third ‘Crocodile’ Dundee flick in 2001, which is the least of the three. The film runs 1 hour, 48 minutes and was shot in New York City and the Australian Outback (Northern Territory & Main Arm, NSW). GRADE: B