Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Peter Faiman
Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Koslowski
Synopsis:
A New York reporter does an item for her magazine on a legendary bushman from Down Under, whom she proceeds to bring back to the States.
Review:
Tarzan's New York Adventure is knowingly reworked for Australia's most popular comedy export, famous at the time for his Fosters beer commercials. He brings much the same wry bemusement and mixture of chauvinism and chivalry to this role, and the film resolves itself into a series of vignettes designed to shed new light on supposedly civilised values and to show that old-fashioned is good. Reactionary fodder, therefore, but condescending to the minorities in its audience; it was a huge commercial success, which with its easy charm is no surprise.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Peter Faiman
Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Koslowski
Synopsis:
A New York reporter does an item for her magazine on a legendary bushman from Down Under, whom she proceeds to bring back to the States.
Review:
Tarzan's New York Adventure is knowingly reworked for Australia's most popular comedy export, famous at the time for his Fosters beer commercials. He brings much the same wry bemusement and mixture of chauvinism and chivalry to this role, and the film resolves itself into a series of vignettes designed to shed new light on supposedly civilised values and to show that old-fashioned is good. Reactionary fodder, therefore, but condescending to the minorities in its audience; it was a huge commercial success, which with its easy charm is no surprise.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Peter Faiman
Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Koslowski
Synopsis:
A New York reporter does an item for her magazine on a legendary bushman from Down Under, whom she proceeds to bring back to the States.
Review:
Tarzan's New York Adventure is knowingly reworked for Australia's most popular comedy export, famous at the time for his Fosters beer commercials. He brings much the same wry bemusement and mixture of chauvinism and chivalry to this role, and the film resolves itself into a series of vignettes designed to shed new light on supposedly civilised values and to show that old-fashioned is good. Reactionary fodder, therefore, but condescending to the minorities in its audience; it was a huge commercial success, which with its easy charm is no surprise.