Yes, it was very popular when it was released. Why? Perhaps good timing, because I've seen other movies that were popular, yet I didn't find them all that great either.
What is this movie about? Crocodile Dundee is a rough and tough Australian man living in the outback, who is so strong he can easily kill animals with just his knife. A female reporter from New York visits him, hoping to get a story on him. He falls for her and in fact follows her to New York-though she is set to marry another man.
Basically it's a "fish-out-of-water" comedy, where Dundee is very naive about how the big city is like. (Never mind that Australia has its own big cities such as Sydney.) He is actually unaware of prostitution, transvestites, drug use, etc. Okay, he hasn't been around, but this is ridiculous.
At best, this movie is mediocre. The story is very predictable, the jokes are weak and trite, the characters are little more than stereotypes, and the romance between Dundee and the reporter lacks chemistry. It doesn't hold up well today.
What is this movie about? Crocodile Dundee is a rough and tough Australian man living in the outback, who is so strong he can easily kill animals with just his knife. A female reporter from New York visits him, hoping to get a story on him. He falls for her and in fact follows her to New York-though she is set to marry another man.
Basically it's a "fish-out-of-water" comedy, where Dundee is very naive about how the big city is like. (Never mind that Australia has its own big cities such as Sydney.) He is actually unaware of prostitution, transvestites, drug use, etc. Okay, he hasn't been around, but this is ridiculous.
At best, this movie is mediocre. The story is very predictable, the jokes are weak and trite, the characters are little more than stereotypes, and the romance between Dundee and the reporter lacks chemistry. It doesn't hold up well today.