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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Steve Irwin, Terri
Irwin |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG |
| Released By: |
MGM |
| Kiddie Movie: |
A little scary,
but it's really for them. |
| Date Movie: |
Only if she is a
huge Crocodile Hunter fan. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Nope. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Animals chomping
at things and Steve fighting off the bad guys. |
| Action: |
Chasing animals. |
| Laughs: |
There are some. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Nothing really
stands out. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
"I think the
binoculars just picked up The Discovery Channel!" |
| Directed By: |
John Stainton |
| Produced By: |
Arnold Rifkin,
Judi Bailey, John Stainton |
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The Crocodile Hunter:
Collision Course
A Movie Review |
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I enjoy getting my Crocodile Hunter fix every now and
then – watching Steve and Terri Irwin travel the world in search of
neat animals and always being "this" close to getting a lethal dose of
venom from a snake or spider, or "this" close from getting a limb torn
off by a ferocious crocodile, and I was a little curious as to how
they would transform this phenomenon into a full-fledged movie. It
turns out they didn’t. Sure, the movie is an hour and a half long, so
that makes it a movie, but "The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course" is
a weird movie to watch, and this will be a little hard to explain.
First, there is a movie with a plot going on. It’s a bad movie with
bad acting about a piece of a satellite that crashed in Australia. One
government agency wants to show-up the other government agency by
getting the piece back first. Oddly enough a crocodile eats this
satellite piece, making it hard for the agents to find. All along,
this crocodile keeps terrorizing a grumpy rancher lady who keeps
trying to shoot it because the croc keeps eating her cattle. So you’ve
got a movie going on. Enter the Crocodile Hunter. Now we get what
might as well be clips of the television show because instead of Steve
and Terri acting how they are saving a kangaroo, a snake, a spider,
etc., nope, we get Steve narrating to the camera how dangerous the
snake and spider are, and how they hope to save the kangaroo, just
like the T.V. show. Now switch back to the movie plot, now switch back
to the T.V. show, now switch back to the movie plot, etc.
Finally the Irwins are mixed into the movie plot when they are
called in to move the crocodile to a location it won’t be attacking
any cattle. Now the agents think the Crocodile Hunter is some crazy
spy because the tracking beacon in the satellite piece shows Steve and
Terri have the piece, when it’s actually still in the crocodile they
are moving, and Steve and Terri think the agents are poachers trying
to kill the crocodile. Ha, Ha!
The wrong thing with this movie is the movie plot, and how all they
do is basically intermix the Crocodile Hunter T.V. show with the plot.
It doesn’t work. They could have probably tried to just have an hour
and a half movie version of the T.V. show, but would we pay for that
when we can get it on cable? In the end, the kids in the audience did
seem to enjoy the movie, maybe because they can just forget the dumb
movie and enjoy Steve Irwin being the Crocodile Hunter. I couldn’t.
For the kid fans of the Crocodile Hunter, this is probably a 3 ½
star movie, but for adults, or at least me, it’s around 1 ½ stars.
Let’s average those together and give it 2 ½ stars out of 5. You can
probably wait for cable on this one, or wait, just go ahead and watch
his show on cable.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
