“Crikey mate! Steady now
sweetheart…Isn’t she a beauty?” These are the familiar words you’ve heard
many times on the Animal Planet television show, ‘The Crocodile Hunter’;
only this time they’ve been put to life on the big screen in Steve and Terri
Irwin’s action adventure film, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision
Course. I enjoyed this movie and it was definitely worth the money I
paid; this “beauty” is absolutely worth seeing.
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is an entertaining
adventure full of poop, humor, and of course, crocodiles! The story starts
out when the CIA is stricken with panic on a count of a space satellite
breaking up and all of its parts falling down to earth. The small memory
database previously encased in the satellite, the only part that the CIA
really needs, is swallowed up by a crocodile in the middle of
Australia when it comes crashing
down to earth. Coincidentally, this is a crocodile that Steve and Terri
Irwin are rescuing. Therefore they are blamed by the Federal CIA for
possession of this part. What the CIA doesn’t know is that the satellite is
in the body of this man-hunting croc. Two men and a woman are engaged in a
race to get this part for the CIA and are mistaken by the Irwins as
“poachers”. This movie is a thrill-ride with tons of laughs along the way.
I
can’t believe I’m rating this movie so high! I didn’t believe one bit of the
story. The small portion of the movie that was acted wasn’t very good.
Nothing was in the least bit believable. But the quirkiness of this guy,
jumping on crocodiles in the middle of the night while carrying on non-stop
dialogue was just so outlandish, it was terribly entertaining. I don’t know
how anybody could dislike Steve Irwin! He’s so crazy, it’s impossible not to
laugh at him. His father made him jump on his first crocodile when he was
nine years old, and he still does it! Now that takes some kind of mental
illness from where I’m concerned. I liked this movie simply because it was
so hilarious to watch this absolutely nuts man; Steve Irwin is incredibly
bonkers, but deviously funny. Someone should consider putting him in a
mental home!
I
loved how they incorporated Steve’s own dialogue from the T.V. show into
this movie so well. If the script-writers had used completely new phrases,
hopeful of being hits, never heard by the audience members before, this
movie just wouldn’t have worked. But, luckily they stayed with the catchy
“Steady now sweetheart”, idiotic Australian substitution of a certain word
that begins with “F”, “Crikey”, and phrase acclaimed by animals everywhere
“Isn’t she a beauty!” The script worked great aside from the weak plot. But
I liked it.
The only thing that has potential to be bothersome in this film was the way
they shot the scenes with Steve in them. They decided to not shoot the
scenes he was in in widescreen for a dramatic effect, to make it seem like
the crocs were jumping out at you. This left the film centered, and only
taking up about half the screen. I’m not exactly sure if I liked this, nor
if I picked up on the intended effect. But, it did bother me at often times,
that’s for sure!
With crocodiles, unintended humor, and a taste of the craziest Australian to
live the planet, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a
very entertaining “sweetheart”. I laughed countless times and enjoyed the
movie tremendously, as I think anyone in the right mind, without a deep
passion for being serious about crocodiles will. So, go
see Steve Irwin bash heads with “Lil’ Rippa’s” now in The Crocodile
Hunter: Collision Course!
-Danny, Bucket Reviews
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