Synopsis
Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American journalist brings him to New York City. This Australian comedy delivers exactly what one would expect: plenty of fish-out-of-water gags about the hunter's reactions to the absurdity of modern urban life. Though he initially seems rather naive, Paul Hogan's "Crocodile" Dundee soon demonstrates that his natural ways are rather quite well-suited to city life, proving himself equally adept at defeating muggers and charming members of high society. Along the way, as one might expect, a romance develops between the rugged hunter and the hardened journalist, who finds herself enchanted by his down-to-earth behavior. The story is not particularly original, but the film's good-natured humor proved extremely palatable to audiences, as indicated by its worldwide box office success.
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'Star Wars' Ain't No 'Crocodile Dundee'
HOLLYWOOD, June 26, 2000 -- Do you feel a disturbance in The Force today? No doubt you've sensed it, because principal photography for "Star Wars: Episode II" officially starts today in the land Down Under. You'd have to be a total curmudgeon not to be excited about it; either that, or you'd have to be Australian.
See, Web sites, newspapers and magazines around the world have been abuzz for months about the new "Star Wars" flick. There were headlines when little-known Hayden Christiansen was picked over bigger names to play the young Darth Vader; heck, there were even headlines when George Lucas arrived in Australia last week to get ready for the shoot.
But when we asked Garth Franklin, producer of the renown Dark Horizons movie site www.darkhorizons.com and a resident of Oz, about how Aussies' themselves are gearing up for the shoot, he reported that the locals aren't a