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Aaron, you guys are welcome here in Australia at any time! We’ll look after you. Australia and New Zealand are very different places despite being the same part of the world. Visit your friends in NZ, John - the wildlife you’re scared of are only here in Australia. Best Australian movies IMO are Strictly Ballroom (I think Baz Luhrman’s first movie), BMX Bandits (baby Nicole Kidman) The Castle, Crackers (Christmas movie) and Rabbitproof Fence (the only serious one on the list).
"That's not a knife, THAT'S a knife." Such an iconic line. Also, Dundee and Sue's actors actually got married shortly after this. The chemistry was real.
More like he left his first wife shortly after meeting Linda Kozlowski on set in 1986. It was one of the ugliest celebrity divorces in Australia. They finally got married in 1990.
@@RandomNPC001 FACTS!! I just saw a reactor trying to figure out the time period for Pirates Of The Caribbean..... he thought it was the 1980's till he looked it up.
The switch from razor to knife wasn't the first indicator Mick is a bit of a showman about how mystical he is. You both seemed to miss it, but when they're leaving and saying goodbye to Wally, Mick gets the time from Wallys watch, then pulls the "tell the time by the suns position" bit with Sue.
My all-time favorite example is when he tries telling Sue that his buddy uses telepathy to navigate his way through the terrain. 2 seconds later there's a CRUNCH and *"Eww, I hate the bush!!"* 🤣🤣🤣
@@catlisma5625 according to his ex she divorced him the second time because he left her and the kids for Linda. They didn’t marry until 4 years later though.
I think whats missed when watching this film today with cancel culture is the film is showing tolerance has to go both ways. In the film some of his views can be seen as sexist, racist, or transphobic (even for the 80's) but he doesn't know any better. He's a good person and means no harm by it and people get that, theres no malice to him saying some of these things its just ignorance. When things are explained he does he best to keep up and thats why people like him
As a transgender woman and being from the particular time, I never had an issue with a comedic situation that Mick was in. He played to his character in the situation. Society has to stop sugarcoating situations for the sake of someone's social agenda. We can't be afraid to be exposed to a certain era and its beliefs of that time. It doesn't make it right from a certain view point, but if you write a character that responds by a way that goes against society because of that character's back story and not having been exposed to the outside world. His response was, well to be sure a natural one giving his naive nature in the story So please don't be too offended because we aren't all that fragile as human beings. And on a side note, you guys are doing a great job and thank you for your concern anyways.😊
As someone who started working in theater these guys would not survive all the friendly fire from fellow gays, trans and straight people. They would be running for the AE union steward only to be asked if this is their first stage show or movie. I got stories that would horrify ANYONE of ALL walks of life.
We should stop sugar-coating comedy for the sake of someone's thin skin. One of the best qualities anyone could have is a good sense of humor, especially towards one's self. The "insult comedians" of the past, such as Don Rickles, were hilarious. Don Rickles was the master and everyone loved him. He poked fun at everyone as well as himself.
Excellent perspective. Also, the overlooked element is he wasn't put off by it. There was no judgement, no ick, no insecure projections. The scene ends with them all still hanging out. He had an immature/ inappropriate first response for sure, but his general nature was immediately inclusive.
@@kissmy_butt1302haha I'm a product of the East Village of NYC during its heyday. You're spot-on. I think what's missed now is that the key to everyone accepting each other is to have fun as a group and not be so uptight. I had all sorts of friends. It didn't occur to me to walk on egg shells or treat anyone differently. We're all people.
Heck, even the third is good, if a bit of a stretch on the premise. And I like my personal headcanon that Denning (a henchman in Croc 2) can be be subject to Mick's friendly nature and go from goon to Mick's best mate Jacko.
The scene in the bar wasn’t dated at all. It was just realistic. Dundee had zero experience with any situation like that one and he dealt with it as logically as he could under the circumstances. He had no idea what political correctness was and had never heard of it.
Yes, good observation! In a way the film actually addressed the trans identity situation in quite an open way for the times, when those issues were really not known or part of everyday life as it is today for most ordinary people! Dundee had a morse positive interaction later at the party!
Some reactors really don't understand that the 70s, 80s, and 90s were different times, and people's mindsets were different. They can't really expect an 80s film to have modern sensibilities.
I was more offended that the trans person didn’t disclose the fact that they were not a cisgender man to Mick and intended to go back to their apartment for intercourse. But If a straight man is dishonest to a straight woman at a bar to try and get her to sleep with him, he is a predator, not a victim.
It's still a fun movie all these years later. Growing up in Australia in the 80's, Paul Hogan was a huge deal because he was a very ordinary dude, a working class bloke who worked on the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a rigger and saw talent show called New Faces where the judges would be rude and nasty to the contestants, he thought they deserved the same back, went on the show and did so well that the rest is history. He had a very popular sketch comedy show on network TV called the Paul Hogan show that run from like '73 to '84, that he basically wrapped up to go all in making this movie. There's lots of clips and segments from the show on RUclips, it's fun, lowbrow humour, an Aussie Benny Hill in a lot of ways.
Oh and the town that Walkabout Creek is set in is McKinlay, in Queensland. It's a throughfare town that people pass through on the way to mines and such, it's about 150 miles to the nearest city of any sort in Mt Isa and about 1000 miles inland from Brisbane. It's literally the middle of nowhere.
The movie is fun but it hasn’t aged well. Very much like 80s John Hughes films. I was so ashamed to be Australian during those scenes while the guys watched. We have a wonderful LGBTQIA+ community here. They could easily cut that scene without making too much impact on the movie at all.
@@StardustandMadness 100%, but I also look at it in the context of when it was made, unfortunately that's an era where cheap shots regarding LGBTQIA+ were pretty common in films, even up until well in the 90's the thought of men as women was used as cheap laughs in a lot of shows and movies and not just Australian ones. I look at this film as very much a piece of it's time, not just as a movie but also as a snapshot of that time in general, yeah there's a few bits that have aged poorly like a lot of movies of the day, but the cast and the performances as a whole are still charming and fun to me.
@@StardustandMadness Come on. This movie is nearly forty years old. NOTHING from the 80's outside of Music has 'aged well'. The world is a completely different place now.
@@jamescurfman3284 I do actually agree. The movie is fine for the time. Didn’t make it any less embarrassing (for me) to watch two of my favourite reactors cringe at it. I just hate that this is how much of the world still sees us because of movies like this. Taika Waititi calls Australia ‘New Zealand’s racist uncle’. So many of us are working so hard to change that opinion and then this kind of thing pops up and just fuels the fire that we’re all bigots. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. It’s just how I feel.
It’s amazing how difficult it is for reactors to admit they laughed and had fun with a movie that was made in a different time. They always feel a need to apologize for laughing.
And Dundee was not being offensive at any moment. He was just clearly naive and a bit unknown to the world. Context and thinking is difficult nowadays.
Reginald Vel Johnson (Gus the limo driver) played Carl Winslow in Family Matters. He also makes appearances in Ghostbusters as a cop and Die Hard as the cop Al who becomes friends with John McLane. The scene in the bar? First you're right it was the 80's. Second Mick is from a very small Australian town. How many cross-dressers or trans people do you think he's seen in Walkabout Creek? The man hasn't watched more tv than the intro to I Love Lucy in his life. He has no idea what's going on outside of his own remote area of Australia.
Any perceived prejudice in this film is from your perspective. You impute intention. The beauty of this film (why it's lasted) is in the fact that Mick isn't malicious. He's exploring, he's learning.
The scene with the trans person was still a moral neutral for Dundee, the trans person was trying to get him to go back to her apartment an was hiding the the fact she was trans, he had every right to reject her publicly as she was trying to trick him publicly as well, he went to far, she knew she was potentially embarrassing him and he embarrassed her instead
There is nothing problematic about this movie, This is what it's like when you are naive and you learn about the world and you're honest about it. It feels like you want to be offended by something
My guys, so many parts of the world are still SUPER conservative today! It totally makes sense that a man like him, who lives in a place like this, would be very confused by the western part of the world. I think the movie has a huge positive part filled with empathy and good messages. ❤☮
I would largely agree - it’s mainly the crotch grab / public humiliation that felt like it actively stepped OUTSIDE the overall sense of good nature (notably in the face of a new / different culture) that ties most of the rest of the movie together.
@@ReelRejectsI think he did that because a man dressed as a woman seemed absurd to him, so his response was equally so. Ultimately it was a man misleading him, so it was a fair response. Dundee is a man who understands the laws of nature, and the only way to put right in his mind what was going on was to check the sex of the person. It quickly cleared up his obvious confusion on what was happening. In his world, (the natural world), men are men, and women are women. The transvestite knew that he was naive and took advantage of that. There should be more empathy for Dundee - he was being taken advantage of - we seem to have lost sight of this reality. Im sorry this has happened to society, to men and women who were just minding their own business. I have lots of empathy for men in these situations. It isn’t fair at all.
@@cormaccurran9975 Dude really?? It's not about being woke it's simply them expressing their uncomfortablity with people of a certain community being mistreated which is how it has been for years. I love the movie and aware he's ignorant but that shouldn't mean these guys should be allowed to feel about how he handled the situation
I get that times are different but you guys feeling untoward about Dundee's scenes with LGBT folk is very disheartening. He didn't show any malice or rude thoughts towards them. He just simply seemed confused and made sense of it how he could. I dont think he should be grabbing people either but his naivety is very telling in this movie. I hope you guys still liked the move!!
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It’s fine to be tolerant, as long as you’re not lying to somebody about what you are and trying to scam them like the first he/she did in the movie. It’s not offensive, it’s called comedy. Stop pushing all the BS segregation. People are laughing together. Unfortunately you younger generation have been conditioned to think everything’s offensive just about
Yeah, this movie basically introduced Australia to the world. The Australian gov't based the next ten years of tourism adverts on this movie. That's one reason the Australians love this movie.
@@Deathbird_Mitch It's kind of amazing that Paul designed this. That was the key. This cool actor was actually the ambassador. This is what he wanted and he got it because of his charm.
I've seen several reactors recently who have a problem with the plot points where someone who is not married but in a dating relationship starts falling for someone else. But that happens all the time in real life. Someone is dating a person who's not really right for them and meets someone who is a better fit. You don't meet someone and that day decide that you must break up with your current relationship and start dating this person. Falling in love is a gradual thing. This movie is pretty realistic on that issue. She feels an attraction for Mick, but doesn't leave her boyfriend. She keeps emphasizing that she's in a relationship. She does kiss Mick spontaneously, but she doesn't sleep with him. That would be a conscious decision. Over time, she realizes that she does love Mick and not the other guy. It's not shown but insinuated that between the proposal and her going to the hotel to see Mick she had broke up with the boyfriend. I saw some other reactors watching The Wedding Singer getting upset that she was emotionally cheating on her boyfriend. No, she was falling in love and trying to figure out her emotions. If people are not allowed to experience their emotions, they're going to be stuck in unhappy relationships.
I love you guys, but sometimes I wish you’d grow up, and realize not every cares about films being “dated.” It’s just a movie. What do you expect? Get out of your constantly-offended, “holier-than-thou” LA bubble: the real world is mature enough to handle random anachronisms; I wish you all were sometimes. Do you know what “jokes,” are, or does humor not exist in LA anymore? Rhetorical question..
Anyone else’s eyes roll in the back of their head listening to the discussion around the trans character? We get it, you’re very sensitive to the plight of the LGBTQIA+ community. No need to spend so long making us watch you self sooth from the trauma. It’s like a 40 year old film. Plus Mick has been shown to be cool with everyone in the film. I always took it like he’s literally never maybe even heard of such a thing in that small town and was kinda just astonished by the notion. Doesn’t mean he was a bigot. I bet if she had stayed, he would’ve talked to her, made a joke or two with his charm and buy her a drink. Maybe because I’m older and I was alive back then and I lived through all the changes in society that I understand more that although there has been hate, most people just are uncomfortable with things they don’t understand. They didn’t even touch on the whole AIDS thing. Lots of fear making people act awful bad back then. The stories I heard from gay friends in recovery in Boston when I went to school there were so sad. So many people died, and out of nowhere. No one knew what to do, or how to coup. Anyway, no hard feelings guys. I think that the majority of people understand there are gonna be things in old movies that aren’t cool today, and no one is gonna think you endorse that stuff just because it came up in a film you watched. The sequel to this is pretty good too. Very different type of dynamic, but still pretty good. Also, Paul and the lead actress married during the filming I think. They were married for a good long time.
Ruined the entire reaction. Rolled my eyes all the way to Popcorn In Beds reaction. Best jump scare ever if you haven't seen it. At the croc, not the bulge.
if you find anything in Dundee offensive then you are very much the problem with our current society. Now typically I love your reactions but this one is strike one on you, obviously I have no delusions as to that statement having any effect. But I do challenge you to take a look at your supposed offense taking view points. You cannot be offended by history looking at it from todyas cultural landscape because that is dishonest.
It was pretty much just the crotch grab / public humiliation moment that felt like it dipped momentarily out of the overall tone of good nature into something a bit meaner, perhaps uncalled for. Like in context of when it was made, I get this was just a “normal” kind of joke - and we acknowledge this in the reaction AND the review - but part of living with art is that times and context change & things can hit different in light of that. So in that sense, I don’t think it’s unfair in a First Time Reaction filmed in 2024 to acknowledge what might not have aged as well as most of the rest of what’s here. I think it’s silly to assert that you can ONLY watch an ‘80s move through the SPECIFIC lens of an ‘80s viewer and that’s the ONLY way to engage with art from that era (or whatever era it might be). And the irony is that, aside from that beat, we had a blast with the rest of the movie! Like, at NO point are we trying to “cancel” Dundee or remove the film from existence. I feel like we can hold two ideas in hand at once here?
Fair points all and I will concede I had a bit too much vitriol. However I still will argue this one point, first I will state that the joke itself was cringe af as it served zero purpose for the overall story and added no depth whatsoever to the character. So to my contention: the main character is shown to be a person from the outback totally disconnected from the modern world surrounded by gruff farmer and outdoors types with a fairly limited world view and knowledge. Then we are shown how Donk takes getting kissed by a man, even tho main character is supposedly his friend he is literally trying to knock him out cold. Now given that this is ever so quitley shown to be the typical response to anything out of the so called norm, when we are faced with the Gwendolyn scenario the audience is almost made to expect violent response. Yet that is not who Dundee is and having no clue how to approach the situation he goes for the grab. Whether or not it is a good move to go for, the character has no frame of reference as to how to act. And as for needing "specific" lenses to appreciate art that is not what I meant at all. I merely suggested that one cannot take normative standards from times past and judge them by todays standard, only to virtue signal. What can be done is to discuss the scene and try and understand the motivations thereof. In conclusion I do stand by my earlier statement of liking your channel and liking you all as reactioners, yet I can still find this type of virtue signaling massively obnoxious but as Ricky Gervais has said "Everyone is allowed to offend everyone and everyone is allowed to get offended". But I like your argument there and appreciate the response, thank you and I will keep enjoying your channel same as before. @@ReelRejects
@@ReelRejectsand what about poor Dundee buying drinks for someone and flirting with someone he had no idea was a man. When was he planning to tell him he was a man…? when he was naked in his bed??? But that’s okay??? Really??? Reverse the roles and make it a women who had been deceived and lied to by a man in whichever way …everyone would be up in arms. Not so? They would be cheering if the woman did what Dundee did to the perpetrator! Not so? I remember going out in the early 2000’s and a group of transvestites would always arrive at a certain point in the evening and zero in on drunk straight men. They told us in the bathroom they enjoyed messing with straight men in particular, it made them feel powerful - it was a game to them. They believed all straight men could be turned. I remember a drunk guy kissing one of them for hours - he had no idea. The look on his face when he found out was heartbreaking, he had literally been assaulted by those men. It was awful to see, and I will never forget how disgusting it was. Why are these poor men not protected!? That was assault pure and simple. Where do men go for help?? You have all been brainwashed, and I can’t believe that you can’t or won’t see this for what it is. You’re worried about the predator’s public humiliation instead - that’s how far we have deviated from the truth! Insane.
@@ReelRejects but you did really make an issue out of it and were quite demeaning rather than just comment how inappropriate and move on - his character is obviously unworldly and Gwendoline was tricking him. It wasn't saying this is what you should do in this situation it was a bit of an uncomfortable moment (and not just for these times! I remember watching it when I was a kid and feeling it was inappropriate but basically probably how he'd react) it was poking fun at his lack of worldlyness and rough, down to earth outback demeanour. I mean if I too was being picky you were poking fun of Australians a lot at the beginning (and even said something that sounded alot like Australia and New Zealand are the same thing!) - which could sound rather ignorant to people from that part of the world. No one is perfect!
What I find funny is people who wasn’t born in the 1980’s , judging 2024 standards to that timeframe, not saying the 1980’s had great standards but you shouldn’t judge “today’s standards” to something that happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago. What happens today may not be acceptable during the 1980’s the same as what happened in the 1940’s.
Correction..... Got Married after this movie. And it is "Were" but not now. I knew thier was a 3rd Croc Dundee that was OK at the time, but in the last week found their IS a forth which is very recent. ` The Very Excellent Mr. Crocodile Dundee (2020) `.
@@alickrozier3799 And that is not a fourth movie. It is a mock-umentary film with Paul Hogan playing a version of himself. Kind of like the recent Nic Cage film.
The funniest part of the movie was the way they both reacted when Dundee touch his and her crutch. These days everyone is so sensitive and weak. No more jokes aloud. Grow some balls. It was the funniest part of the movie.
Personally I don't have a problem with laughing at scenes I find funny even while accepting attitudes have changed over time. I can host more than one idea at once.
The bar scene is hilarious 😂.. it was a different time for sure, and it shows his ignorance to those things. We would never do something like that but he’s almost innocent about it.
59:45 - have you ever seen sheep dogs running over the backs of the sheep in a pen? That's why he did it, because the guy with the hat mentioned sheep.
I just shows how sensitive and weak society has become now. Him graping his crutch was the funniest part of the movie. But not these day. People are to sensitive these days. No jokes aloud.
It’s not a huge deal - it’s a product of its time, yes. If you can’t handle the simple acknowledgement of what has aged & how on a first time watch from 2024, I don’t know what to tell yaaaaaa
I am sick of cancel culture .this film is amazing and Paul hogan ace and brilliant .I am sick how people react to films now it’s terrible.these two are examples of cancel culture with there shocked expressions.when I was growing up I was never shocked by the great movies I was looking at and was never thinking about political correctness.I wish I could go back to when nobody was shocked about movies and books.I want to see this culture war end I have al this political correctness.
I have to imagine that although she is clearly attracted to Mick, she is probably thinking that he will only be in NY for a little bit and then go back to the outback. It is only when she is faced with marriage and also seeing how Mick is affected that she decides to follow her heart.
I agree with you and movies today are ruined with political correctness and I am really sick of it .i hope this wokeness ends because is ruining movies and shows and books
People saying this movie does not hold up well, need to watch more reactions to this movie, the reactions I've seen to this movie, people love this movie and wish we would lighten up and make more movies like this, I saw one young woman say, this is the best Rom-Com ever!
This is a classic 80’s film and I think it's charm holds up well. Just because things are a product of its time doesn't mean they handle things wrong; I would even argue that Dundee is a very progressive character. He's naive to life in the city but, he continues to grow throughout his experiences. He doesn't pass judgment on prostitutes, drug addicts, even the trans girl at the bar - he just didn't know not to grab someone's genitals. He even kisses the guy at the joint that makes him drop his beer. We don't know what we don't know - so given another month or two with meeting different types of people I have no doubt would be marching in pride parades.
He's also not being racist. They stress over and over how isolated he's been in his life and how close he is to the Aboriginal people, including the friend specifically featured. Meaning he has like seen only white people or Aboriginal people and so when he's talking to the limo driver he's treating him the same way he'd treat anyone else and in his mind is probably going even further by asking questions about his relationship with society that would be entirely relevant if he were still in Australia. He likely wouldn't have realized there were people in the world with darker skin tones that weren't Aborginal.
Kind of a Tarzan movie. The second half being "Tarzan's New York Adventure". Speaking of Tarzan, the most popular Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, also played a character called Jungle Jim in several films. Jungle Jim was originally a comic strip character that was created in the 1930s.
Paul Hogan was a comedian before this movie happened. Came to entertainment later in life. He was a working class guy--think like Billy Connelly. Even during his interviews promoting the movie, he was very charming and quick wit. Very grounded. He and the lead actress actually got married and were together for decades. I think there is a sequel to this movie, but I never did catch it.
such a great film from the ‘80s 😀 please also watch: - last action hero (1993) - you don’t mess with the zohan (2008) - the hangover trilogy (2009-2013) - horrible bosses (2011) - horrible bosses 2 (2014) - point break (2015) - the magnificent seven (2016) - the vanishing of sidney hall (2017) - the kissing booth trilogy (2018-2021) - booksmart (2019)
I would say watch the Original Version of The Magnificent Seven, first. That was a really good movie and there is GREAT REASON for it to get re-made for 2016.
35:17 I'm not a New Yorker, but I can confirm for you that NYC still has a mounted police division that works Central Park. Lots of areas are not open to patrol cars, nor is it easy for officers on foot patrol to get around, just because the park is that big. So you still see horse riding cops as well as some cops being on bicycle.
I hate how every generation z person watches old films thru the eyes of today's generation, soft soy boy world. It was a different time. Get over it & just enjoy the movie.
These guys are millennials, not Gen Z and they both acknowledged it was a different time. They didn't even really make that much of a big deal about it. I don't get why everyone's acting like they did. They both enjoyed the movie in case you weren't paying attention.
I literally squealed seeing the thumbnail. Crocodile Dundee films are CLASSICS, such fun iconic films, all the fantastic memorable lines. Ahhhh ❤ Please please please have a reaction to 'Strictly Ballroom' It's a gorgeous film, maybe a Tara and Roxy reaction? Or John and Aaron? ❤
You guys missed the whole point of this romantic comedy taking two worlds and showing them both fall for the other in both their climates. Storytelling with a unique spin. That's not a highlight to you 2? In the age where everything is a remake or bland with hardly any creativity... Be more open minded with films before both of your births. Like think outside the box and stop feeling all censored. The more I listen to the review the more I want to click off. I'm sorry if you 2 really got that offended by one scene to be split on this. Weird. Still a classic tho. Good night y'all.
1. Richard had his eye on her father's newspaper empire more than on her. 2. Richards fate was sealed w/the crocodile incident & further confirmed by the, "That's not a knife" event... "Whenever I'm with you I feel safe"... It's not how manly he is. It's how he makes her feel. Richard never gave her that feeling & she likes it. & 3. Came of age in the 80's, They toned it (way) down for the film. Openly groped dance partners on the dance floor every weekend.
I like your point about how she felt safe with Mick not being about how ‘manly’ he is. There are some men who just don’t make us feel that way. It’s not an actual ‘oh this guy is NOT going to attack me feeling’ or ‘my guy could beat any other guy to a pulp’, it’s so difficult to explain. It’s an emotional safety, I guess. Feeling free to be yourself without worrying he’ll walk out the door because you’re being open and honest with him.
Also because you mentioned it made you uncomfortable, there are no scenes where Mick meets any LGTBQ+ individuals in the next movie. The plot does not involve a 'fish out of water' scenario like the first one. He's more or less adapted (in his own ways...) and the story goes somewhere else entirely. And it's a really good story so I highly recommend it! In the third movie - which is...ok. Not as good as the first two but still entertaining and a decent wrap to the story between Mick and Sue - Mick and a friend of his fresh from Australia accidently wander into a gay bar and quickly walk back out realizing their mistake. Mick takes a moment to explain the situation to his friend but does so with tact and respect - showing that he has grown quite a bit from his first days in New York. And it does make some sense (especially in the 80's) that a scene like that would be included. I mean how would someone who is completely sheltered from a modernized world handle a situation like that? In a bar in a modern city like New York, it's likely you'd come across someone with those characteristics. Clearly he didn't do it to be mean, he just didn't know and wanted to be sure. And it's that innocent naivety that makes him so charming and likable.
This movie isn't at all problematic, it isn't dated in the least. Most people don't fall in line with the woke authoritarianism. You guys must live in an echo chamber. That transvestite was luring Mick to their place under false pretenses. Mick just wanted to know the truth; when he did, he just walked away and moved on. As should you.
Sorry guys, but in the 80s and even in the 90s, a man dressed up as a woman was pretty hilarious, and that scene is great. We didn't get as offended by everything back then. It's crazy that people feel the need to apologize or defend actions that were taken some 30-40 years ago.
I feel like we’re just sort of acknowledging how times change. That’s part of living with art. I get that a lot of folks are just gonna laugh and not bat an eye - especially if they first watched this around the time it came out - but I also don’t think it’s that big a deal to say “I’m kinda bummed that scene didn’t go a different direction,” which is essentially what we said here. And I’d argue that part of the appeal of a reaction to a movie from the past *is* the culture clash / change in times - and to that end, we literally acknowledge that this is a product of a different time.
CROCODILE DUNDEE 2 is twice the action, 2x the adventure, 2xthe romance and 10x the DANGER. The best sequel to any movie eve. But DUNDEE 2...May be the second best Australian movie ever. #1 QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER.
Many of us Aussies used to drink Fosters back in the 1970s & 1980s. I found it very similar to VB back when it was brewed here in by CUB. Carlton United Breweries. It has since changed and is brewed in different countries. From Wikipedia, "Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks, known for Foster's Lager, now called Carlton & United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne, Victoria by two American brothers, who sold the brewery a year later. The company was renamed prior to sale to British-South African multinational SABMiller in 2011. Foster's wine business was split into a separate company, Treasury Wine Estates, in May 2011. In October 2016 Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired SABMiller, which ceased trading as a corporation, making the Foster's Group a direct subsidiary of the parent company. In June 2020, Carlton and United Breweries was sold to the Japanese beverage giant, Asahi Group Holdings."😎
You have to look at the bar scene from both perspectives. The trans person wasn't exactly being open about it. How would you feel as a straight male and nothing was ever said and you discover it by being surprised by feeling it in your hands unexpextadly.
This narrative that "men" are trying to "trick" other men is how trans women get killed. Maybe figure out your own internalized homophobia and how you think of women as just their genitals
Nice one fellas ,,,, My last day of primary school back in 1986 , as a 12 year old we caught a bus into the city to watch this at the movies . Classic Aussie stuff
Aaron quoting the Joker in the Dark Knight at the water buffalo scene took me out. People quoting that movie out of context is always so funny to me. Love that scene.
Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski got married in 1990, four years after this movie. I'm sure they were probably fooling around when making Crocodile Dundee II (1988) since he divorced his previous wife in 1989. Hogan and Kozlowski actually stayed married for a long time; they divorced in 2014.
It's relevant that the transvestite was misrepresenting their gender and intending to assault a drunk man. That could be an offensive portrayal in its own right, but Mick was just quicker on the draw.
Take note of the fact that, when showing the boat to Sue, Mick says things like 'the water was 20ft up the bank' and describes the croc in feet. This was done purely for the American audiences, because we don't use feet as a unit of measurement over here. It always sounds so jarring to me when I hear it- a true Aussie would have said: "The warta wuz farkin twenee meetas up th'bank!" 😆
That's not true at all, but you're probably too young to remember. Australia only started to go metric in 1970, when the the Metric Conversion Act was passed. This movie was only made 10 years later, when many people were still thinking in Imperial because they had grown up with it.
Lmao progressive doesn't translate to progress lmao... Many progressives get offended too easily, ... just as "they" want other lifestyles to be accepted so must many other entertainment styles ( I prefer the 80's many then didn't get so offended as modern people lol)
Dude, conservatives get triggered over someone taking a knee during an anthem or flag with a rainbow on it. So just stop thinking this over sensitivity is one sided.
@jjrod2988 There's a huge difference. it's called disrespect of the Nation ... burning rubber over a so-called protected group is somehow illegal & burning us flags is somehow protected... Justifiably upset for disrespect of Nation ... Alphabet people made up flag is Not a Protected issue except by very few hypersensitive people... which you just demonstrated 🤣
@@Black71Eagle no there's no difference, especially when the it's been made very clear that the act was in no way meant to disrespect soldiers or the country, but to bring attention to social injustice. If it offended you, it's because you CHOSE to be offended based on a false narrative pushed by republican politicians and right wing media. So congratulations, you're no better than the snowflake leftists you complain about. And btw the american flag isn't protected either because the first amendment says anyone can do or say anything they want about that piece of cloth.
@@Black71Eagle the only hypersensitivity on display here is your own. You just admitted to being offended by something that numerous times, has been explained as a form of silent protest towards racial injustice but you've chosen to adopt the narrative that was pushed by right wing media and politicians. And considering your kind are apparently the ones who believe in the constitution, doesn't your first amendment afford everyone the right to kneel during the anthem? Or do you only talk scream about amendments when they favor your narratives and POVs? You don't get to cherry pick when it's convenient for you cupcake. It's also pathetic to like your own comment Bubba.
Goodness. It's a movie from the 80s. It was a man who has been isolated from the world who has not seen 99% of the world. A man dressed as a lovely woman would be very shocking. His response and actions from a man of the wild would be expected.
You mean the "Boo-Hoo Brigade".... yes. I see their point of keeping your hands to yourself... Then I think of my great grandparents and grandparents and the things they've said and done. Big difference in generations.
But the trans person was getting ready to leave with him basically and had not mentioned the fact that they were physically a man all evening. Had they got to the bedroom and that person had not said a thing, that is considered ok behavior? Works both ways respect does.
There's only two things you let Aussie's know when you order Fosters. One, you're a tourist. Two, you like the taste of piss. 😂 The bartender may flat out ask if you like the taste of piss, I've seen it happen 😂
Real travelers know that when you go to a new place, you ask the locals what they drink. Most likely it's going to be something that Americans have never heard of.
The great thing about Dundee is he isn't malicious. He just doesn't know better. When he's informed, he sorts himself out and rolls with it. Also, doubt he's ever seen or met a Trans person, so had zero idea how to handle the situation.
I remember my mom and aunt telling me they saw him at a restaurant one time in Carmel, California, and my aunt did an impersonation of the knife line out loud in the restaurant and his face turned bright red lol
New Zealand is MUCH smaller than Australia, which is almost exactly the same size as the continental USA. NZ is about the same size as the UK. Very different countries. Kangaroos are so numerous in Australia that you have no hope of ever hunting them to extinction. To be fair, there are not very many idiots like those guys here. People who behave like that with guns get TOLD pretty damn firmly and soon.
Dude on the left especially should find another job if he’s going to be so bothered by everything that doesn’t have a 2020s lens on it. It’s a shame because they create good videos.
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Aaron, you guys are welcome here in Australia at any time! We’ll look after you.
Australia and New Zealand are very different places despite being the same part of the world. Visit your friends in NZ, John - the wildlife you’re scared of are only here in Australia.
Best Australian movies IMO are Strictly Ballroom (I think Baz Luhrman’s first movie),
BMX Bandits (baby Nicole Kidman)
The Castle,
Crackers (Christmas movie) and Rabbitproof Fence (the only serious one on the list).
Made like a kangaroo & hopped on into the movie 😂
I’m gonna be watching out for your reactions to crocodile Dundee 2 ( probably the better one) great reaction guys ❤️
Fosters used to be Australia wide in the 90s. Now, it's an export product. We don't generally drink it here any more
Please please watch the series of shorts for "Dundee 2018"!
"That's not a knife, THAT'S a knife." Such an iconic line. Also, Dundee and Sue's actors actually got married shortly after this. The chemistry was real.
Such an iconic line that you got wrong 😂
More like he left his first wife shortly after meeting Linda Kozlowski on set in 1986. It was one of the ugliest celebrity divorces in Australia. They finally got married in 1990.
@@lizmccarthy-edwards2115 that marriage was already over, it was their second go at it 😂
Uhh yeah. Still married though.@@adventuresinlaurenland
They were married years prior to this move. They made several movies together
"They had bidets in the 80s?" LOL Bidets were invented in the 1600s
younger people think the 80`s were the middle ages!
@@RandomNPC001 FACTS!! I just saw a reactor trying to figure out the time period for Pirates Of The Caribbean..... he thought it was the 1980's till he looked it up.
Yes, even in the dark ages (80's) there were bidets. 😂😂😂😂
Did you know this apparent fact off the top of your head, or did you have to google it?
@@arconeagain It's pretty well known. Most other countries have had them for centuries.
The switch from razor to knife wasn't the first indicator Mick is a bit of a showman about how mystical he is. You both seemed to miss it, but when they're leaving and saying goodbye to Wally, Mick gets the time from Wallys watch, then pulls the "tell the time by the suns position" bit with Sue.
My all-time favorite example is when he tries telling Sue that his buddy uses telepathy to navigate his way through the terrain. 2 seconds later there's a CRUNCH and *"Eww, I hate the bush!!"* 🤣🤣🤣
@@clevelandcbithey missed a lot, from talking almost non-stop through many of the jokes
The two lead actors actually fell in love while making this film and got married.
This is the element everyone forgets. How awesome is that?
They didn't just fall in love, he was married at the time. He left his wife of 23 years for her.
@@FrankieOver50a quick google shows that is false :/ they had already divorced twice and he remarried his co star 4 years after his divorce
@@catlisma5625 according to his ex she divorced him the second time because he left her and the kids for Linda. They didn’t marry until 4 years later though.
I think whats missed when watching this film today with cancel culture is the film is showing tolerance has to go both ways. In the film some of his views can be seen as sexist, racist, or transphobic (even for the 80's) but he doesn't know any better. He's a good person and means no harm by it and people get that, theres no malice to him saying some of these things its just ignorance. When things are explained he does he best to keep up and thats why people like him
That and the trans was deceiving men into thinking she was a woman so he could have sex with them.
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100% agree. I'm about to state a similar sentiment
Probably also worth noting that if the movie commentary survives twenty or thirty years a significant amount of it will be as this appears now.
As a transgender woman and being from the particular time, I never had an issue with a comedic situation that Mick was in. He played to his character in the situation.
Society has to stop sugarcoating situations for the sake of someone's social agenda. We can't be afraid to be exposed to a certain era and its beliefs of that time. It doesn't make it right from a certain view point, but if you write a character that responds by a way that goes against society because of that character's back story and not having been exposed to the outside world. His response was, well to be sure a natural one giving his naive nature in the story
So please don't be too offended because we aren't all that fragile as human beings.
And on a side note, you guys are doing a great job and thank you for your concern anyways.😊
As someone who started working in theater these guys would not survive all the friendly fire from fellow gays, trans and straight people. They would be running for the AE union steward only to be asked if this is their first stage show or movie. I got stories that would horrify ANYONE of ALL walks of life.
We should stop sugar-coating comedy for the sake of someone's thin skin. One of the best qualities anyone could have is a good sense of humor, especially towards one's self.
The "insult comedians" of the past, such as Don Rickles, were hilarious. Don Rickles was the master and everyone loved him. He poked fun at everyone as well as himself.
Excellent perspective. Also, the overlooked element is he wasn't put off by it. There was no judgement, no ick, no insecure projections.
The scene ends with them all still hanging out.
He had an immature/ inappropriate first response for sure, but his general nature was immediately inclusive.
@@kissmy_butt1302haha I'm a product of the East Village of NYC during its heyday. You're spot-on. I think what's missed now is that the key to everyone accepting each other is to have fun as a group and not be so uptight.
I had all sorts of friends. It didn't occur to me to walk on egg shells or treat anyone differently. We're all people.
Thank you
Crocodile Dundee 2 is good too
Heck, even the third is good, if a bit of a stretch on the premise. And I like my personal headcanon that Denning (a henchman in Croc 2) can be be subject to Mick's friendly nature and go from goon to Mick's best mate Jacko.
The scene in the bar wasn’t dated at all. It was just realistic. Dundee had zero experience with any situation like that one and he dealt with it as logically as he could under the circumstances. He had no idea what political correctness was and had never heard of it.
Yes, good observation! In a way the film actually addressed the trans identity situation in quite an open way for the times, when those issues were really not known or part of everyday life as it is today for most ordinary people! Dundee had a morse positive interaction later at the party!
Not to mention the trans was openly deceiving people try to get sex from them.
Exactly these guys are too socially conditioned to have open minds
Some reactors really don't understand that the 70s, 80s, and 90s were different times, and people's mindsets were different. They can't really expect an 80s film to have modern sensibilities.
I was more offended that the trans person didn’t disclose the fact that they were not a cisgender man to Mick and intended to go back to their apartment for intercourse. But If a straight man is dishonest to a straight woman at a bar to try and get her to sleep with him, he is a predator, not a victim.
Literally one of the best Australian Comedy Feature Films ever made to screen!
It's still a fun movie all these years later. Growing up in Australia in the 80's, Paul Hogan was a huge deal because he was a very ordinary dude, a working class bloke who worked on the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a rigger and saw talent show called New Faces where the judges would be rude and nasty to the contestants, he thought they deserved the same back, went on the show and did so well that the rest is history.
He had a very popular sketch comedy show on network TV called the Paul Hogan show that run from like '73 to '84, that he basically wrapped up to go all in making this movie. There's lots of clips and segments from the show on RUclips, it's fun, lowbrow humour, an Aussie Benny Hill in a lot of ways.
Oh and the town that Walkabout Creek is set in is McKinlay, in Queensland. It's a throughfare town that people pass through on the way to mines and such, it's about 150 miles to the nearest city of any sort in Mt Isa and about 1000 miles inland from Brisbane. It's literally the middle of nowhere.
The movie is fun but it hasn’t aged well. Very much like 80s John Hughes films. I was so ashamed to be Australian during those scenes while the guys watched. We have a wonderful LGBTQIA+ community here. They could easily cut that scene without making too much impact on the movie at all.
@@StardustandMadness 100%, but I also look at it in the context of when it was made, unfortunately that's an era where cheap shots regarding LGBTQIA+ were pretty common in films, even up until well in the 90's the thought of men as women was used as cheap laughs in a lot of shows and movies and not just Australian ones.
I look at this film as very much a piece of it's time, not just as a movie but also as a snapshot of that time in general, yeah there's a few bits that have aged poorly like a lot of movies of the day, but the cast and the performances as a whole are still charming and fun to me.
@@StardustandMadness Come on. This movie is nearly forty years old. NOTHING from the 80's outside of Music has 'aged well'. The world is a completely different place now.
@@jamescurfman3284 I do actually agree. The movie is fine for the time. Didn’t make it any less embarrassing (for me) to watch two of my favourite reactors cringe at it. I just hate that this is how much of the world still sees us because of movies like this. Taika Waititi calls Australia ‘New Zealand’s racist uncle’. So many of us are working so hard to change that opinion and then this kind of thing pops up and just fuels the fire that we’re all bigots. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. It’s just how I feel.
It’s amazing how difficult it is for reactors to admit they laughed and had fun with a movie that was made in a different time. They always feel a need to apologize for laughing.
It's really annoying to be honest.
This generation has no hope
WE LITERALLY ADMIT THIS ACROSS THIS ENTIRE VIDEO lol
@@ReelRejectsyou literally have thin skin and are contributing to a weak society
And Dundee was not being offensive at any moment. He was just clearly naive and a bit unknown to the world. Context and thinking is difficult nowadays.
Reginald Vel Johnson (Gus the limo driver) played Carl Winslow in Family Matters. He also makes appearances in Ghostbusters as a cop and Die Hard as the cop Al who becomes friends with John McLane.
The scene in the bar? First you're right it was the 80's. Second Mick is from a very small Australian town. How many cross-dressers or trans people do you think he's seen in Walkabout Creek? The man hasn't watched more tv than the intro to I Love Lucy in his life. He has no idea what's going on outside of his own remote area of Australia.
It's weird not to see him with a badge.
And if you are a guy pretending to be a woman unbeknownst to the other party you shouldnt be surprised when someone does something like this.
@@Tconl And if you do something like this, don't be surprised when you are convicted of sexual assault.
@@vapoet Lieing about your sexuality isn't good but assault is a bit pushing it.
@@Tconl Yeah I'd feel 10x more assaulted if it touched an un-warned me in the dark. 🤣🤣🤣
You guys, trigger after trigger after trigger. 😟😮😲
If you're offended by this movie you're the problem.
Any perceived prejudice in this film is from your perspective. You impute intention. The beauty of this film (why it's lasted) is in the fact that Mick isn't malicious. He's exploring, he's learning.
The first time I saw this decades ago I completely felt in love with Linda Kozlowski, she was beyond gorgeous
Someone described her as a cross between Sharon Stone and Meg Ryan.
Sharon Stone was hotter imo
Hey, if you’re packing, you owe it to your potential date to be up front.
Exactly!
Too Right😂
Just as I was telling my mum the difference between Alligators and Crocodiles, I got the notification for this video 😂😂😂
HilArious
No alligators in Australia.
One you see later, one you see in a while
@@jasonthompson1604 hahaha , genius
The scene with the trans person was still a moral neutral for Dundee, the trans person was trying to get him to go back to her apartment an was hiding the the fact she was trans, he had every right to reject her publicly as she was trying to trick him publicly as well, he went to far, she knew she was potentially embarrassing him and he embarrassed her instead
Tit for tat,
There is nothing problematic about this movie, This is what it's like when you are naive and you learn about the world and you're honest about it. It feels like you want to be offended by something
It'd be like finding someone smoking on a plane in the 1960s offensive because in the contemporary period it's completely absurd behavior.
They should've a problem with the man in the dress not telling Mick the truth.
@@Mickey-1994 Get over yourself. You are repeating yourself.
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax Don't get upset little lady.
My guys, so many parts of the world are still SUPER conservative today! It totally makes sense that a man like him, who lives in a place like this, would be very confused by the western part of the world. I think the movie has a huge positive part filled with empathy and good messages. ❤☮
I would largely agree - it’s mainly the crotch grab / public humiliation that felt like it actively stepped OUTSIDE the overall sense of good nature (notably in the face of a new / different culture) that ties most of the rest of the movie together.
Stop looking at films through woke eyes.respect old movies and don’t be shocked by them.
@@ReelRejectsI think he did that because a man dressed as a woman seemed absurd to him, so his response was equally so. Ultimately it was a man misleading him, so it was a fair response. Dundee is a man who understands the laws of nature, and the only way to put right in his mind what was going on was to check the sex of the person. It quickly cleared up his obvious confusion on what was happening. In his world, (the natural world), men are men, and women are women. The transvestite knew that he was naive and took advantage of that. There should be more empathy for Dundee - he was being taken advantage of - we seem to have lost sight of this reality. Im sorry this has happened to society, to men and women who were just minding their own business. I have lots of empathy for men in these situations. It isn’t fair at all.
@@cormaccurran9975 Dude really?? It's not about being woke it's simply them expressing their uncomfortablity with people of a certain community being mistreated which is how it has been for years. I love the movie and aware he's ignorant but that shouldn't mean these guys should be allowed to feel about how he handled the situation
^^^^^ It was definitely about being woke.
Wally's hand gestures when he and Mick meet up are Wally's way of asking Mick if he "hit that".
And not in a violent kind of way either "for those who are unsure" in other words making out ... Lolz
I don't understand how reactors keep missing that tbh.
People weren’t so sensitive back in the day. Not like the pansies we have today.
Exactly.
Very true and most millennials are not like these dips@its.
Yeah, you should see how easy it is to trigger trumptards. All you gotta do a kneel down during an anthem.
The final subway scene is so wholesome and beautiful
The director did a superb job throughout this movie
I get that times are different but you guys feeling untoward about Dundee's scenes with LGBT folk is very disheartening. He didn't show any malice or rude thoughts towards them. He just simply seemed confused and made sense of it how he could. I dont think he should be grabbing people either but his naivety is very telling in this movie. I hope you guys still liked the move!!
Trying way too hard to hate on Dundee. That was embarrassing
Never expect common sense from woke liberals.
You need to watch the second movie too
Is the third worth a watch? Gave me bad vibes so I never gave it a shot.
@@clevelandcbi same here
@@TheCivicRepublicMilitary From reviews I've been reading, this seems to be a case of great minds thinking alike. Cheers 🥂
It wasn't just a different time, it was a *better* time.
Hardly. Not for me as a gay child/teenager
Well said!
Please react to Crocodile Dundee II, better than the first IMO
From google/wikipedia:
*"The bidet appears to have been an invention of French furniture makers in the late 17th century, although no exact date or inventor is known.*
*The earliest written reference to the bidet is in 1726 in Italy."*
39:52 "How are we going to handle this?"
- Mick handled it with ease. 😆
It’s fine to be tolerant, as long as you’re not lying to somebody about what you are and trying to scam them like the first he/she did in the movie. It’s not offensive, it’s called comedy. Stop pushing all the BS segregation. People are laughing together. Unfortunately you younger generation have been conditioned to think everything’s offensive just about
This movie was like this great ambassador for Australia to the United States at this time.
You got quite an unrealistic view of Australia then
Yeah, this movie basically introduced Australia to the world. The Australian gov't based the next ten years of tourism adverts on this movie. That's one reason the Australians love this movie.
@@Deathbird_Mitch It's kind of amazing that Paul designed this. That was the key. This cool actor was actually the ambassador. This is what he wanted and he got it because of his charm.
I've seen several reactors recently who have a problem with the plot points where someone who is not married but in a dating relationship starts falling for someone else. But that happens all the time in real life. Someone is dating a person who's not really right for them and meets someone who is a better fit. You don't meet someone and that day decide that you must break up with your current relationship and start dating this person. Falling in love is a gradual thing. This movie is pretty realistic on that issue. She feels an attraction for Mick, but doesn't leave her boyfriend. She keeps emphasizing that she's in a relationship. She does kiss Mick spontaneously, but she doesn't sleep with him. That would be a conscious decision. Over time, she realizes that she does love Mick and not the other guy. It's not shown but insinuated that between the proposal and her going to the hotel to see Mick she had broke up with the boyfriend.
I saw some other reactors watching The Wedding Singer getting upset that she was emotionally cheating on her boyfriend. No, she was falling in love and trying to figure out her emotions. If people are not allowed to experience their emotions, they're going to be stuck in unhappy relationships.
That's was handled completely correctly by Mick...haha u guys gotta be PC, he doesnt😂
I love you guys, but sometimes I wish you’d grow up, and realize not every cares about films being “dated.” It’s just a movie. What do you expect? Get out of your constantly-offended, “holier-than-thou” LA bubble: the real world is mature enough to handle random anachronisms; I wish you all were sometimes. Do you know what “jokes,” are, or does humor not exist in LA anymore? Rhetorical question..
Anyone else’s eyes roll in the back of their head listening to the discussion around the trans character? We get it, you’re very sensitive to the plight of the LGBTQIA+ community. No need to spend so long making us watch you self sooth from the trauma. It’s like a 40 year old film. Plus Mick has been shown to be cool with everyone in the film. I always took it like he’s literally never maybe even heard of such a thing in that small town and was kinda just astonished by the notion. Doesn’t mean he was a bigot. I bet if she had stayed, he would’ve talked to her, made a joke or two with his charm and buy her a drink. Maybe because I’m older and I was alive back then and I lived through all the changes in society that I understand more that although there has been hate, most people just are uncomfortable with things they don’t understand. They didn’t even touch on the whole AIDS thing. Lots of fear making people act awful bad back then. The stories I heard from gay friends in recovery in Boston when I went to school there were so sad. So many people died, and out of nowhere. No one knew what to do, or how to coup. Anyway, no hard feelings guys. I think that the majority of people understand there are gonna be things in old movies that aren’t cool today, and no one is gonna think you endorse that stuff just because it came up in a film you watched. The sequel to this is pretty good too. Very different type of dynamic, but still pretty good. Also, Paul and the lead actress married during the filming I think. They were married for a good long time.
But if they don't virtue signal, how will they get their woke points?
Ruined the entire reaction. Rolled my eyes all the way to Popcorn In Beds reaction. Best jump scare ever if you haven't seen it. At the croc, not the bulge.
They're pretty pathetic and the man in the dress should've been honest.
Overly sensitive this generation!
They're very soft like most libs.
Sue isn't cheating, she identifies as single.
Spoken from a woman's point of view smh.
Sue, your facetiousness seems to lost on some. Hilarious!
I can't see how she was "cheating". Wouldn't cheating involve sex rather than just kissing? Surely she was just confused? Educate me please.
Calm down with the woke worries, Just enjoy the movie. People werent that broke up about it
The reactors need to find their own impersonations of foreigners and their accents problematic next. ;)
100%👍
if you find anything in Dundee offensive then you are very much the problem with our current society. Now typically I love your reactions but this one is strike one on you, obviously I have no delusions as to that statement having any effect. But I do challenge you to take a look at your supposed offense taking view points. You cannot be offended by history looking at it from todyas cultural landscape because that is dishonest.
It was pretty much just the crotch grab / public humiliation moment that felt like it dipped momentarily out of the overall tone of good nature into something a bit meaner, perhaps uncalled for. Like in context of when it was made, I get this was just a “normal” kind of joke - and we acknowledge this in the reaction AND the review - but part of living with art is that times and context change & things can hit different in light of that. So in that sense, I don’t think it’s unfair in a First Time Reaction filmed in 2024 to acknowledge what might not have aged as well as most of the rest of what’s here. I think it’s silly to assert that you can ONLY watch an ‘80s move through the SPECIFIC lens of an ‘80s viewer and that’s the ONLY way to engage with art from that era (or whatever era it might be). And the irony is that, aside from that beat, we had a blast with the rest of the movie! Like, at NO point are we trying to “cancel” Dundee or remove the film from existence. I feel like we can hold two ideas in hand at once here?
Fair points all and I will concede I had a bit too much vitriol. However I still will argue this one point, first I will state that the joke itself was cringe af as it served zero purpose for the overall story and added no depth whatsoever to the character. So to my contention: the main character is shown to be a person from the outback totally disconnected from the modern world surrounded by gruff farmer and outdoors types with a fairly limited world view and knowledge. Then we are shown how Donk takes getting kissed by a man, even tho main character is supposedly his friend he is literally trying to knock him out cold. Now given that this is ever so quitley shown to be the typical response to anything out of the so called norm, when we are faced with the Gwendolyn scenario the audience is almost made to expect violent response. Yet that is not who Dundee is and having no clue how to approach the situation he goes for the grab. Whether or not it is a good move to go for, the character has no frame of reference as to how to act. And as for needing "specific" lenses to appreciate art that is not what I meant at all. I merely suggested that one cannot take normative standards from times past and judge them by todays standard, only to virtue signal. What can be done is to discuss the scene and try and understand the motivations thereof. In conclusion I do stand by my earlier statement of liking your channel and liking you all as reactioners, yet I can still find this type of virtue signaling massively obnoxious but as Ricky Gervais has said "Everyone is allowed to offend everyone and everyone is allowed to get offended". But I like your argument there and appreciate the response, thank you and I will keep enjoying your channel same as before. @@ReelRejects
@@ReelRejectsand what about poor Dundee buying drinks for someone and flirting with someone he had no idea was a man. When was he planning to tell him he was a man…? when he was naked in his bed??? But that’s okay??? Really??? Reverse the roles and make it a women who had been deceived and lied to by a man in whichever way …everyone would be up in arms. Not so? They would be cheering if the woman did what Dundee did to the perpetrator! Not so?
I remember going out in the early 2000’s and a group of transvestites would always arrive at a certain point in the evening and zero in on drunk straight men. They told us in the bathroom they enjoyed messing with straight men in particular, it made them feel powerful - it was a game to them. They believed all straight men could be turned. I remember a drunk guy kissing one of them for hours - he had no idea. The look on his face when he found out was heartbreaking, he had literally been assaulted by those men. It was awful to see, and I will never forget how disgusting it was. Why are these poor men not protected!? That was assault pure and simple. Where do men go for help?? You have all been brainwashed, and I can’t believe that you can’t or won’t see this for what it is. You’re worried about the predator’s public humiliation instead - that’s how far we have deviated from the truth! Insane.
@@ReelRejects but you did really make an issue out of it and were quite demeaning rather than just comment how inappropriate and move on - his character is obviously unworldly and Gwendoline was tricking him. It wasn't saying this is what you should do in this situation it was a bit of an uncomfortable moment (and not just for these times! I remember watching it when I was a kid and feeling it was inappropriate but basically probably how he'd react) it was poking fun at his lack of worldlyness and rough, down to earth outback demeanour. I mean if I too was being picky you were poking fun of Australians a lot at the beginning (and even said something that sounded alot like Australia and New Zealand are the same thing!) - which could sound rather ignorant to people from that part of the world. No one is perfect!
@@ReelRejects The man in the dress should've been honest.
“He’s dressed like thriller but it’s the bad video “ 😂😂
Love watching 90’s baby watching a 80’s movie, even though they wouldn’t survive the 80’s 😂😂😂😂
We’d just be different in the ‘80s. Obviously. Because it was a different time lol. Christ.
Older millennials love the 80s and we don't connect with these PC cupcakes.
Yep🤣
What I find funny is people who wasn’t born in the 1980’s , judging 2024 standards to that timeframe, not saying the 1980’s had great standards but you shouldn’t judge “today’s standards” to something that happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago. What happens today may not be acceptable during the 1980’s the same as what happened in the 1940’s.
The two main actors, Paul Hogan and Linda Kosawski are/were married in real life
Correction..... Got Married after this movie. And it is "Were" but not now. I knew thier was a 3rd Croc Dundee that was OK at the time, but in the last week found their IS a forth which is very recent. ` The Very Excellent Mr. Crocodile Dundee (2020) `.
There is no correction to be made as we are not watching the movie in real time 🤣🤣🤣
@@alickrozier3799 And that is not a fourth movie. It is a mock-umentary film with Paul Hogan playing a version of himself. Kind of like the recent Nic Cage film.
So glad you all got to this movie. Not just an amazing 80s film...it's an amazing film period. Favorite Australian...Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman.
Hugh and Deb used to have a property ten minutes from me. Not sure if they’ve sold it now they’ve split or if they will.
The funniest part of the movie was the way they both reacted when Dundee touch his and her crutch. These days everyone is so sensitive and weak. No more jokes aloud. Grow some balls. It was the funniest part of the movie.
Yes lol. No more jokes allowed in the comedy we laughed at 90% of.
The fabric on the woman's outfit was literally just the alphabet. Each line was the next letter....ABCD...etc. A very 80's thing!
Personally I don't have a problem with laughing at scenes I find funny even while accepting attitudes have changed over time. I can host more than one idea at once.
The bar scene is hilarious 😂.. it was a different time for sure, and it shows his ignorance to those things. We would never do something like that but he’s almost innocent about it.
Totally. That scene could’ve been executed so much worse, but it was pretty chill considering the time it was made.
59:45 - have you ever seen sheep dogs running over the backs of the sheep in a pen? That's why he did it, because the guy with the hat mentioned sheep.
What is the all-time greatest MOVIE KNIFE???
Ah awesome 🙌🏻 I loved this film as a kid…still do! You guys are doing some BANGING reactions 💪🏻
Terminator 2. T-1000 and the foster father scene.
Rambo's knife is up there.
Night slasher knife from Cobra
Rambo is definitely most iconic.
You were definitely looking at this movie through a modern woke filter.
I keep trying to get Casablanca cancelled because it has the nerve to show smoking. In a bar!
I've never seen anyone cry so much over the trans scene.
Dude was upset for the rest of the movie cause of that 😂
I just shows how sensitive and weak society has become now.
Him graping his crutch was the funniest part of the movie.
But not these day.
People are to sensitive these days. No jokes aloud.
Dundee didn`t even do out of hate, just ignorance for a situation he never encountered before!
You seem to be pretty in your feelings about that.
@@bbbnnnlll ?
I much prefer the honesty of the 80's, to the delusion bullshit of today. Problematic my arse.
It’s not a huge deal - it’s a product of its time, yes. If you can’t handle the simple acknowledgement of what has aged & how on a first time watch from 2024, I don’t know what to tell yaaaaaa
US Navy stationed in NZ. Nothing like Australia.
I am sick of cancel culture .this film is amazing and Paul hogan ace and brilliant .I am sick how people react to films now it’s terrible.these two are examples of cancel culture with there shocked expressions.when I was growing up I was never shocked by the great movies I was looking at and was never thinking about political correctness.I wish I could go back to when nobody was shocked about movies and books.I want to see this culture war end I have al this political correctness.
I have to imagine that although she is clearly attracted to Mick, she is probably thinking that he will only be in NY for a little bit and then go back to the outback. It is only when she is faced with marriage and also seeing how Mick is affected that she decides to follow her heart.
Their reaction is why we don’t have good movies anymore. Everyone feels guilty for laughing. Lighten up
I agree with you and movies today are ruined with political correctness and I am really sick of it .i hope this wokeness ends because is ruining movies and shows and books
I mean it's fine not to find something funny, but to be so sensitive to it sucks.
People saying this movie does not hold up well, need to watch more reactions to this movie, the reactions I've seen to this movie, people love this movie and wish we would lighten up and make more movies like this, I saw one young woman say, this is the best Rom-Com ever!
This takes me back. I just remember mum telling me how Paul Hogan left his wife for Linda Kozlowski, too young to understand she was berating them.
This is a classic 80’s film and I think it's charm holds up well. Just because things are a product of its time doesn't mean they handle things wrong; I would even argue that Dundee is a very progressive character. He's naive to life in the city but, he continues to grow throughout his experiences. He doesn't pass judgment on prostitutes, drug addicts, even the trans girl at the bar - he just didn't know not to grab someone's genitals. He even kisses the guy at the joint that makes him drop his beer. We don't know what we don't know - so given another month or two with meeting different types of people I have no doubt would be marching in pride parades.
He's also not being racist. They stress over and over how isolated he's been in his life and how close he is to the Aboriginal people, including the friend specifically featured. Meaning he has like seen only white people or Aboriginal people and so when he's talking to the limo driver he's treating him the same way he'd treat anyone else and in his mind is probably going even further by asking questions about his relationship with society that would be entirely relevant if he were still in Australia. He likely wouldn't have realized there were people in the world with darker skin tones that weren't Aborginal.
Kind of a Tarzan movie. The second half being "Tarzan's New York Adventure". Speaking of Tarzan, the most popular Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, also played a character called Jungle Jim in several films. Jungle Jim was originally a comic strip character that was created in the 1930s.
Paul Hogan was a comedian before this movie happened. Came to entertainment later in life. He was a working class guy--think like Billy Connelly. Even during his interviews promoting the movie, he was very charming and quick wit. Very grounded. He and the lead actress actually got married and were together for decades. I think there is a sequel to this movie, but I never did catch it.
Definitely do the second movie, it’s also great, if not better.
Now you must see the sequel.
such a great film from the ‘80s 😀
please also watch:
- last action hero (1993)
- you don’t mess with the zohan (2008)
- the hangover trilogy (2009-2013)
- horrible bosses (2011)
- horrible bosses 2 (2014)
- point break (2015)
- the magnificent seven (2016)
- the vanishing of sidney hall (2017)
- the kissing booth trilogy (2018-2021)
- booksmart (2019)
I would say watch the Original Version of The Magnificent Seven, first. That was a really good movie and there is GREAT REASON for it to get re-made for 2016.
35:17 I'm not a New Yorker, but I can confirm for you that NYC still has a mounted police division that works Central Park. Lots of areas are not open to patrol cars, nor is it easy for officers on foot patrol to get around, just because the park is that big. So you still see horse riding cops as well as some cops being on bicycle.
The second time it was not a transgender person, it was just a woman with a deep voice
Everyone misses that part of the joke.
@@Cyborganna I have not seen one reactor miss that tbh.
And the punch line is she decides if that's the way Australians greeting each other She needs to visit Australia.
@@Lensmaster1 Which is a pretty funny line imo.
I had the biggest crush on Linda Kozlowski growing up
I hate how every generation z person watches old films thru the eyes of today's generation, soft soy boy world. It was a different time. Get over it & just enjoy the movie.
Whatever. They obviously enjoyed the movie.
These guys are millennials, not Gen Z and they both acknowledged it was a different time. They didn't even really make that much of a big deal about it. I don't get why everyone's acting like they did. They both enjoyed the movie in case you weren't paying attention.
@@ChrisTheAspergerGuy except for harping on about one small scene.
@@stevedavis2473 The only one doing the harping is you.
@@ChrisTheAspergerGuyThat bothered them and clouded the whole rest of the movie for them.
I literally squealed seeing the thumbnail. Crocodile Dundee films are CLASSICS, such fun iconic films, all the fantastic memorable lines. Ahhhh
❤ Please please please have a reaction to
'Strictly Ballroom'
It's a gorgeous film, maybe a Tara and Roxy reaction? Or John and Aaron? ❤
Ohhh yes! Strictly Ballroom is one of my faves! And The Castle.
You guys missed the whole point of this romantic comedy taking two worlds and showing them both fall for the other in both their climates. Storytelling with a unique spin. That's not a highlight to you 2? In the age where everything is a remake or bland with hardly any creativity... Be more open minded with films before both of your births. Like think outside the box and stop feeling all censored. The more I listen to the review the more I want to click off. I'm sorry if you 2 really got that offended by one scene to be split on this. Weird. Still a classic tho. Good night y'all.
The best thing about this movie is knowing it led to a 24 year marriage in real life ❤️
Fosters used to be Australia wide in the 90s. Now, it's an export product. We don't generally drink it here any more.
1. Richard had his eye on her father's newspaper empire more than on her. 2. Richards fate was sealed w/the crocodile incident & further confirmed by the, "That's not a knife" event... "Whenever I'm with you I feel safe"... It's not how manly he is. It's how he makes her feel. Richard never gave her that feeling & she likes it. & 3. Came of age in the 80's, They toned it (way) down for the film. Openly groped dance partners on the dance floor every weekend.
I like your point about how she felt safe with Mick not being about how ‘manly’ he is. There are some men who just don’t make us feel that way. It’s not an actual ‘oh this guy is NOT going to attack me feeling’ or ‘my guy could beat any other guy to a pulp’, it’s so difficult to explain. It’s an emotional safety, I guess. Feeling free to be yourself without worrying he’ll walk out the door because you’re being open and honest with him.
Also because you mentioned it made you uncomfortable, there are no scenes where Mick meets any LGTBQ+ individuals in the next movie. The plot does not involve a 'fish out of water' scenario like the first one. He's more or less adapted (in his own ways...) and the story goes somewhere else entirely. And it's a really good story so I highly recommend it! In the third movie - which is...ok. Not as good as the first two but still entertaining and a decent wrap to the story between Mick and Sue - Mick and a friend of his fresh from Australia accidently wander into a gay bar and quickly walk back out realizing their mistake. Mick takes a moment to explain the situation to his friend but does so with tact and respect - showing that he has grown quite a bit from his first days in New York. And it does make some sense (especially in the 80's) that a scene like that would be included. I mean how would someone who is completely sheltered from a modernized world handle a situation like that? In a bar in a modern city like New York, it's likely you'd come across someone with those characteristics. Clearly he didn't do it to be mean, he just didn't know and wanted to be sure. And it's that innocent naivety that makes him so charming and likable.
This movie isn't at all problematic, it isn't dated in the least. Most people don't fall in line with the woke authoritarianism. You guys must live in an echo chamber.
That transvestite was luring Mick to their place under false pretenses. Mick just wanted to know the truth; when he did, he just walked away and moved on. As should you.
Sorry guys, but in the 80s and even in the 90s, a man dressed up as a woman was pretty hilarious, and that scene is great. We didn't get as offended by everything back then. It's crazy that people feel the need to apologize or defend actions that were taken some 30-40 years ago.
I feel like we’re just sort of acknowledging how times change. That’s part of living with art. I get that a lot of folks are just gonna laugh and not bat an eye - especially if they first watched this around the time it came out - but I also don’t think it’s that big a deal to say “I’m kinda bummed that scene didn’t go a different direction,” which is essentially what we said here. And I’d argue that part of the appeal of a reaction to a movie from the past *is* the culture clash / change in times - and to that end, we literally acknowledge that this is a product of a different time.
@ReelRejects I get it. And I love the movie reaction. I just thought you guys might have taken it bit too seriously. But it's cool. Keep it up 😁
Never expect common sense from woke liberals. They will lose the culture war and the world will move on without them.
CROCODILE DUNDEE 2 is twice the action, 2x the adventure, 2xthe romance and 10x the DANGER. The best sequel to any movie eve. But DUNDEE 2...May be the second best Australian movie ever. #1 QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER.
Many of us Aussies used to drink Fosters back in the 1970s & 1980s. I found it very similar to VB back when it was brewed here in by CUB. Carlton United Breweries. It has since changed and is brewed in different countries.
From Wikipedia, "Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks, known for Foster's Lager, now called Carlton & United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne, Victoria by two American brothers, who sold the brewery a year later.
The company was renamed prior to sale to British-South African multinational SABMiller in 2011. Foster's wine business was split into a separate company, Treasury Wine Estates, in May 2011. In October 2016 Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired SABMiller, which ceased trading as a corporation, making the Foster's Group a direct subsidiary of the parent company. In June 2020, Carlton and United Breweries was sold to the Japanese beverage giant, Asahi Group Holdings."😎
Croc Dundee 2 is worth watching but I wouldn't bother with the rest - not good
It’s great when you two watch classic 80s/90s cult classics. Your perspectives together are hilarious.
You have to look at the bar scene from both perspectives. The trans person wasn't exactly being open about it. How would you feel as a straight male and nothing was ever said and you discover it by being surprised by feeling it in your hands unexpextadly.
This narrative that "men" are trying to "trick" other men is how trans women get killed. Maybe figure out your own internalized homophobia and how you think of women as just their genitals
European Gen-X here. The 80s were so much simpler... and people behaved better because otherwise they were checked immediately on the spot.
Nice one fellas ,,,, My last day of primary school back in 1986 , as a 12 year old we caught a bus into the city to watch this at the movies . Classic Aussie stuff
Aaron quoting the Joker in the Dark Knight at the water buffalo scene took me out. People quoting that movie out of context is always so funny to me. Love that scene.
Aaron (I can’t hear that name without picturing the Key and Peel sketch now!) has the worst Australian accent I’ve ever heard 😂
lol A-A-Ron!!
Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski got married in 1990, four years after this movie. I'm sure they were probably fooling around when making Crocodile Dundee II (1988) since he divorced his previous wife in 1989. Hogan and Kozlowski actually stayed married for a long time; they divorced in 2014.
It's relevant that the transvestite was misrepresenting their gender and intending to assault a drunk man. That could be an offensive portrayal in its own right, but Mick was just quicker on the draw.
Take note of the fact that, when showing the boat to Sue, Mick says things like 'the water was 20ft up the bank' and describes the croc in feet. This was done purely for the American audiences, because we don't use feet as a unit of measurement over here. It always sounds so jarring to me when I hear it- a true Aussie would have said: "The warta wuz farkin twenee meetas up th'bank!" 😆
That's not true at all, but you're probably too young to remember. Australia only started to go metric in 1970, when the the Metric Conversion Act was passed. This movie was only made 10 years later, when many people were still thinking in Imperial because they had grown up with it.
Lmao progressive doesn't translate to progress lmao...
Many progressives get offended too easily, ... just as "they" want other lifestyles to be accepted so must many other entertainment styles ( I prefer the 80's many then didn't get so offended as modern people lol)
Well you're so "woke", aren't you?
Dude, conservatives get triggered over someone taking a knee during an anthem or flag with a rainbow on it. So just stop thinking this over sensitivity is one sided.
@jjrod2988 There's a huge difference. it's called disrespect of the Nation ... burning rubber over a so-called protected group is somehow illegal & burning us flags is somehow protected...
Justifiably upset for disrespect of Nation ...
Alphabet people made up flag is Not a Protected issue except by very few hypersensitive people... which you just demonstrated 🤣
@@Black71Eagle no there's no difference, especially when the it's been made very clear that the act was in no way meant to disrespect soldiers or the country, but to bring attention to social injustice. If it offended you, it's because you CHOSE to be offended based on a false narrative pushed by republican politicians and right wing media. So congratulations, you're no better than the snowflake leftists you complain about. And btw the american flag isn't protected either because the first amendment says anyone can do or say anything they want about that piece of cloth.
@@Black71Eagle the only hypersensitivity on display here is your own. You just admitted to being offended by something that numerous times, has been explained as a form of silent protest towards racial injustice but you've chosen to adopt the narrative that was pushed by right wing media and politicians. And considering your kind are apparently the ones who believe in the constitution, doesn't your first amendment afford everyone the right to kneel during the anthem? Or do you only talk scream about amendments when they favor your narratives and POVs? You don't get to cherry pick when it's convenient for you cupcake. It's also pathetic to like your own comment Bubba.
Goodness. It's a movie from the 80s. It was a man who has been isolated from the world who has not seen 99% of the world. A man dressed as a lovely woman would be very shocking. His response and actions from a man of the wild would be expected.
This is a perfect reaction to how a moment in a movie can offend a generation, ppl today are so soft.. disappointing
You mean the "Boo-Hoo Brigade".... yes. I see their point of keeping your hands to yourself... Then I think of my great grandparents and grandparents and the things they've said and done. Big difference in generations.
Weak pathetic generation of soft easily offended weaklings 😊
But the trans person was getting ready to leave with him basically and had not mentioned the fact that they were physically a man all evening. Had they got to the bedroom and that person had not said a thing, that is considered ok behavior? Works both ways respect does.
@@chrismaher5344exactly! They defend the obvious predator and shame the person being taken advantage of.
The only thing problematic about this was their constant pc whining and big pharma endorsement.
There's only two things you let Aussie's know when you order Fosters. One, you're a tourist. Two, you like the taste of piss. 😂 The bartender may flat out ask if you like the taste of piss, I've seen it happen 😂
That was pure marketing, but brilliant marketing. Telling Americans that their beer is the favorite of people who live in an "exotic" country.
Real travelers know that when you go to a new place, you ask the locals what they drink. Most likely it's going to be something that Americans have never heard of.
The great thing about Dundee is he isn't malicious. He just doesn't know better. When he's informed, he sorts himself out and rolls with it.
Also, doubt he's ever seen or met a Trans person, so had zero idea how to handle the situation.
Exactly.
I remember my mom and aunt telling me they saw him at a restaurant one time in Carmel, California, and my aunt did an impersonation of the knife line out loud in the restaurant and his face turned bright red lol
You guys should definitely watch the sequel
New Zealand is MUCH smaller than Australia, which is almost exactly the same size as the continental USA. NZ is about the same size as the UK. Very different countries. Kangaroos are so numerous in Australia that you have no hope of ever hunting them to extinction. To be fair, there are not very many idiots like those guys here. People who behave like that with guns get TOLD pretty damn firmly and soon.
Dude on the left especially should find another job if he’s going to be so bothered by everything that doesn’t have a 2020s lens on it. It’s a shame because they create good videos.