Product: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 5.0
Dundee triumphs again
Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan) returns to the U.S. and once again overcomes all obstacles in this action-comedy. When we last saw Mick and Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), they had fled back to the Australian outback, where they succeeded in ending the threat of a Colombian drug trafficker, and Sue, when asked if she was ready to go home, said, "I *am* home." And, apparently, there they stayed, for when we join them in this installment of the franchise, they've made themselves a home near Walkabout Creek and have a nine-year-old son (Serge Cockburn), known as Mikey Charlton because his parents aren't legally married. When Sue's newspaper-magnate father calls to tell her that the editor of his LA paper has just been killed and he wants her to take over till he can find a replacement, she's reluctant to leave her family, but Mick sensibly points out that there's no reason they can't go too; Mikey, he says, is his grandfather's heir, and someday "he'll have to choose" whether he wants to be a newspaperman or an apprentice croc-hunter. How's he supposed to decide if he doesn't experience *both* lifestyles? So off to LA they go. Mick remains the innocent country boy in the big city, but his bush skills prove invaluable when evidence begins to suggest that the defunct editor met his end through human agency and was trying to expose something hinky connected to a small-time film studio run by Arnan Rothman (Jere Burns). With the help of his buddy Jacko (Alec Wilson), Mick discovers the truth and brings the bad guys to book. There's no character in film quite like Mick, and if you liked his previous adventures,Crocodile DundeeandCrocodile Dundee II, you're sure to enjoy this one as well.