''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'' (also known as ''Crocodile Dundee III'') is a 2001

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directed by

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and starring

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. It is the

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to ''

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'' (1988) and the third and final film of the ''Crocodile Dundee'' film series. Hogan and

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reprise their roles as

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and Sue Charlton, respectively. The film was shot on location in

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and in

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. Actor Paul Hogan reported that the inspiration for the storyline came during a tour of

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, Czech Republic in 1993. It was released on April 18, 2001 in the United States. It grossed $39.4 million worldwide and received negative reviews from critics who called it an unnecessary sequel.

Plot

is living in the Australian outback with Sue Charlton and their young son Mikey.

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hunting has been made illegal, and Mick is reduced to wrestling crocodiles for the entertainment of tourists. He has a rival in the business, another outback survivalist named Jacko. When an opportunity arises for Sue to become the Los Angeles bureau chief of a newspaper owned by her father, Mick and his family cross the Pacific to

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. In the United States, both Mick and his son have encounters with the locals, causing cross-cultural mishaps. Mick becomes an undercover amateur

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, helping to probe the mysterious death of his wife's predecessor at the newspaper, while Mikey attends a local school, where he quickly impresses his classmates and teacher with his outback survival skills. Because the case takes up so much of their time, Mick and Sue eventually call in Jacko to babysit their son; immediately, Jacko and Mikey's teacher become interested in each other. It is revealed that the dead reporter had been investigating a film studio, which is about to make a sequel to the

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''Lethal Agent'', despite the title's

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. Mick becomes suspicious when several paintings from Southern Europe are brought onto the set; although at first he suspects drug smuggling, the pictures themselves are revealed to be missing art from a museum in former

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, thought lost in the recent civil wars. They are to appear in the film as mere props, to be publicly 'destroyed' in a scene in which they are set on fire, at which point they will have been exchanged for copies. Attempting to secure one of the paintings as evidence, Mick, Sue, and Jacko run afoul of the studio director and his thugs. Using the studio's props and three lions used in filming to defeat the gangsters, Mick and Sue solve the case and return to Australia, where they are officially married.

Cast

as Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee *

as Sue Charlton *

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as Arnan Rothman *

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as Miloš Drubnik * Alec Wilson as Jacko * Gerry Skilton as Nugget O'Cass * Steve Rackman as Donk * Serge Cockburn as Michael "Mikey" Dundee II / Michael Charlton *

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as Jean Ferraro * Paul Rodriguez as Diego *

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as Miss Mathis *

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as Himself

Reception

Box office

The film grossed $7,759,103 at the box office in Australia. The film debuted in 4th place at the US box office behind ''

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'' (which was #1 in its second weekend), ''

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'' and '' Along Came a Spider''. It grossed $39 million worldwide, below the total gross of the previous two films. In a 2017 interview, comedian and actor

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stated that the box office receipts for his film ''

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'' did not reflect the actual attendance, as he thinks that movie goers under the age of seventeen bought tickets to ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'' and snuck into the theater showing his film.

Critical response

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the film has a score of 11% based on reviews from 80 critics. The site's consensus reads: "A sequel as unnecessary as it is belated, ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'' lacks virtually all of the easygoing humor and charm that delighted fans of the original." On

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the film has a score of 37% based on reviews from 33 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews. Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

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of the

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gave the film 2 out of 4 and wrote: "It may not be brilliant, but who would you rather your kids took as a role model: Crocodile Dundee,

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or Tom Green?" By coincidence, Green himself used the film as part of his defense, as mentioned above, for the apparent failure of his film ''Freddy Got Fingered''.

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called it "Amiable rather than genuinely funny."

Accolades

The film was nominated for a

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for Worst Remake or Sequel but lost to ''

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''.

References

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