Remember how I said I hadn't seen Crocodile Dundee in forever? That not only goes for the sequel, I actually mashed the two of them together in my mind to make one movie. So when I was rewatching the first one, I kept wondering where certain lines were that I remembered. Turns out, they were in part two.Sue (Linda Kozlowski) and Mick (Paul Hogan) are living together in New York City. Mick is adjusting pretty well but is starting to miss the excitement of the Outback. He doesn't need to miss it for long, however, because Sue's ex-husband, Bob (Dennis Boutsikaris), has mailed them a package of evidence from Colombia. He is a photojournalist moonlighting as an aide to the DEA and has taken pictures of notorious drug kingpin Luis Rico (Hechter Ubarry) killing a guy. Rico comes gunning for Sue and Mick to get his evidence back but clearly does not know with whom he is fucking. Mick whisks Sue off to his property in the Territory, casually reveals that there's a literal gold mine on the land, and then proceeds to go all Aussie-Rambo on the drug dealers, commencing a series of demoralizing psychological and guerrilla attacks, while Sue marvels at his genius.
These may be two of the most perfect films to ever come out of the 80's. I think that they should be required to be watched consecutively, which is probably why my childhood brain thought they were one movie. I can't believe it took me so long to revisit these movies. They're amazing.
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