Fluke_Skywalker With the fish-out-of-water gimmick milked dry in the original, they had to contrive something new here and unfortunately that was to pit Dundee against a group of Columbian drug dealers. But even though it adds that dark element, there seemed to be a conscious effort to tone things down a bit, as evidenced by the PG rating (vs. the PG-13 of the first one). There's "violence", but it's mostly of the comedic, Home Alone sort. And despite evolving into somewhat of an action film, it actually plods along more slowly than the original, lacking any semblance of energy or purpose. Hogan remains charming, but unfortunately the charm of the first film is all but gone.

David Allen "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) Not As Good As First "Crocodile Dundee" Movie Due To Writing Problems In Part Two.The first "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) movie was a wonderful comedy.The second "Crocodile Dundee" (1988) movie was intended to cash in on the first movie, which it probably did....it probably made much more money for the owners of the movie than the first movie did.Nobody expected the first movie to be a big hit. Everybody expected the second movie to be a hit, and movie owners could (probably did) cut great deals with movie house owners, television presentation people, and sellers of VHS and DVD home videos.The second movie made the owners much richer than the first movie did.But.........sadly, it wasn't (isn't) as good a movie as the first one.Old story with comedies of fame...going back to "The Thin Man" (1934) which was a big, unexpected hit when it first came out, and resulted in many sequels, none as good as the first movie.There are exceptions to the rule that follow-up movies are never as good as initial movies...."Godfather II" (1974) is an example.An example closer to home is the original Johnny Weismuller "Tarzan" (1932) movie which was followed up by an even better "Tarzan" sequel titled "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934 which co-starred the lovely Maureen O'Sullivan (Mia Farrow's mother!) who swam totally nude with her handsome husband, Johnny Weismuller as "Tarzan" in a sort of underwater ballet quite breathtaking to see, and quite tasteful, nude though the dancers were in pre-code 1934 times."Crocodile Dundee" (1986) is sometimes compared to "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942) which uses the same jokes......yokel Tarzan from darkest Africa comes to NYC, dresses up in tuxedos, goes to night clubs, rides subways, and doesn't fit in....very funny! The owners of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie series would have done well to pattern the second "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) movie after "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934) and could have made a much better movie if they followed the "Tarzan And His Mate" (1934) example (BTW, "Tarzan And His Mate" 1934 is honored by inclusion on the Library Of Congress National Film Registry List....best "best movies" list of all, to my thinking...and the first "Tarzan" Johnny Weismuller movie isn't!).Linda Kozlowski, a lovely, Julliard NYC Drama School graduate of both high acting talent and skills (and also very pretty in her 20's in the 1980's) could have done much more than she did in the "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) movie, where she and Paul Hogan are already "mated" and committed, and there is no more electricity based on courtship and "the chase" seen in the first movie.Oh well........we are "too soon old and too late smart" and so is Hollywood (including the Australia part of Hollywood responsible for the Crocodile Dundee movies).Here are reasons the first Crocodile Dundee (1986), aka "Part One," is better than the second one: Part One (1986) showed a "fish out of water" pretty girl reporter (Linda Kozlowski) in Australia, and then a "fish out of water" Australian comic male hero (Paul Hogan) trying to survive in the New York City of the mid-1980's.Part One worked because it presented non-stop "fish out of water" jokes and situations all well acted by Hogan and Kozlowski.Part One wasn't serious and didn't try to be.Great photography of rural Australia and of up-scale New York City and suburbs.Part One made fun of strange types in both settings, and the main actors did a good job as comics reacting to the strange types.Good enough.The Part One movie was a hit.Part Two wasn't as good because it tried to get serious, got away from the main value of Part One, which was that both rural Australia and New York City of the 1980's are strange for people there for the first time reacting to all they see and must put up with.Part Two was an imperfect action movie, not as good as Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Pierce Brosnan, Matt Damon, Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Jason Statham, etc. etc. movies, and not as funny as the first Crocodile Dundee (1986) movie.Neither Paul Hogan nor his leading lady from Part One, Linda Kozlowski have the chance to "show their stuff" as they did often in Part One ("showing their stuff" was what made the first movie a big hit).Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski are good actors, but the writing of Part Two just wasn't as good or "on the mark" as was the writing for Part One.Sadly, this is a common story regarding sequels trying to cash in on big initial hit movies, but slowed down because sequels become committee projects always less likely have singular vision of the sort which makes initial hit movies good, but hard to duplicate when committees take over.---------------------- Tex (David) Allen is a SAG-AFTRA east coast movie actor who has written almost 100 movie reviews for both the Amazon and IMDb databases.More about Tex Allen at the IMDb website.See IMDb database for details about Tex (David) Allen.Send emails to Tex Allen to [email protected]

FilmBuff1994 Crocodile Dundee 2 is a good enough with a decent story line,a fairly good cast and some funny parts,I wasn't that fund of the first Crocodile Dundee,but this one definitely isn't as good,its a typical comedy sequel,the story is unusual compared to the original,but Paul Hogan still make enjoyment of the movie with his performance being as good as ever,but fans of the original will definitely be disappointed by this sequel.Sue,now married to Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee,is kidnapped by gangsters involved in a drug baron,and its upto Crocodile Dundee to save his wife.-6/10-DILLON HARRIS

Aaron1375 Yes, this is one of those sequels that came out rather quickly following the surprise success of its predecessor. Usually when they release a film so quickly they either literally had a script lined up and ready to film, or they make almost the same film only changing this and that around. Well this movie was most certainly the latter, however, I thought they did a pretty good job. The first film went from out of place person in Australia to out of place person in New York and this one does the opposite. Which I liked, cause I thought the Australia scenes of the first film were more entertaining than yet another film set in the most overshot city in the world New York. Sorry, I have seen it quite enough on the big screen. They do a good job of finding a reason for Crocodile and the love of his life to have to return to the outback as a drug dealer is on their heels and what better place to go than to a place Crocodile knows like the back of his hand and the people pursuing them do not know at all. Still, there is a lot of sameness to this one as some of the same jokes are recycled which happens a lot in comedy sequels even today. Still, it was an okay film, a lot like the first film if you were to watch it backwards.