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| Year: | 1988 |
| Country of origin: | Australia / USA |
| Director: | John Cornell |
| Genre: | Outback Mountain 2: Back in the Bush |
| Starring: | Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Hechter Ubarry |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092493/ |
| Tagline: | The world's favourite adventurer is back for more! much more! |
| Favourite line: | "He wants to know if we're allowed to eat these men." |
Harshly rated sequel to the surprise 1986 Aussie comedy hit.
Paul Hogan is back as Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee, apparently settled into his life of domesticity in NYC. He still feeds the animal within occasionally - our first glimpse of him is fishing in New York harbour with explosives - and he yearns for home intermittently, but his choice to stay in American is driven by his relationship with Kozlowski's Sue Charlton, still the high flying reporter.
Charton's ex, spurned in the first movie upon the arrival of Dundee, is doing some reporting of his own in Columbia, and manages to take some photographs of notorious drug trafficker Luis Rico executing a man which, inevitably, puts his life in jeopardy. In desperation, he mails the shots to Charlton and she in turn is kidnapped.
Can Mick save her from the clutches of the evil drug-lord?
And will the drug-lord be able to survive in the wilderness of The Outback?
The answers to both questions are obvious, but it matters not.
Again, Hogan is on fine form as the likeable Dundee, a genuinely warm character that you can't help but be engaged by.
Kozlowski plays well against him, and their off screen romance only adds to the on screen chemistry.
The plot is pretty redundant, though it is effective in drawing Mick back to his homeland in order to turn the tables on those who would endanger he and his belle. Though not quite as captivating as the first movie, this is nevertheless a way above average eighties comedy classic.
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