History Film / CrocodileDundee

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Parodied in all three of the films, which depicted (relatively) accurate Australian aborigines who have assimilated into "white" culture without losing their own cultural trappings. In the first film Sue asks to take a picture of Mick's aboriginal friend and he says she cannot, which she believes stems from his belief that the camera will steal his soul, but he just points out that she forgot to take the lenscap off. He then checks his rolex watch and hurries on his way, albeit with a few stumbles in the dark as he grumbles how he hates being in the bush. The same character shows up again in the first sequel and intentionally plays the image up in order to intimidate the henchmen of two Columbian thugs. In the third film, when Mick is picking up his son from school he runs into an aboriginal man in full traditional garb.
-->'''Aborigine''': Got outta that tree alright, eh?\\
'''Mick Dundee''': Now how could you possibly know about that already?\\
'''Aborigine''': My people have ways of talking that ''no'' white man can understand!\\
{''ringing''}\\
'''Aborigine''' (''pulls out cellphone''): Yeah?

* BigEater: Mick and Jacko, as demonstrated in the third movie.

* IntrepidReporter: Sue Charlton is willing to go to the Australian outback in the first movie for a story, even before her CharacterDevelopment.

* RefugeInAudacity: How Mick gets away with some of his antics, perhaps most notably blast fishing in the Hudson and then offering the police one of his catches when they investigate (part of it is also that the Officer In Charge who responds knows Mick already).

* DoorSlamsYou: Mick uses a statue as a battering ram to knock a door down onto Rico while rescuing Sue from the latter's fortress in Long Island.

'''Luis:''' Think. When we were children, did you follow the snake into the cane field?

* {{Hypocrite}}: The man who accuses Mick of being a poacher is discovered to one himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos out in the bush.

Before ''Series/CrocodileHunter'', there was... ''Crocodile Dundee'', a 1986 {{Action|Genre}}-{{Adventure}} {{Romantic Comedy}} film directed by Peter Faiman and starring Creator/PaulHogan in the title role and co-starring Creator/LindaKozlowski.

A third film, ''Crocodile Dundee in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles'', was released in 2001. Mick and Sue are together but unmarried and have a son: Mikey Charlton (Devon Fitzgerald). They live in the Australian Outback, where Mick is wrestling crocodiles for a living. When Sue is offered a major position in a Los Angeles newspaper, she jumps at the opportunity. But all is not right. Her predecessor was murdered, and the case remains unsolved. The Dundees have to perform their own investigation.

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Set one year after the events of the first film, Mick and Sue are happily living together in New York until Sue receives photos from her Ex-husband that shows evidence of a brutal murder by a drug cartel boss in Columbia. When the gangsters abduct Sue it’s up to Mick to use his skills rescue her and then keep her safe when the gangsters follow them back to Australia.
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A number of years after the events of the second Film, Mick and Sue are happily living together with their son Mikey in Australia, with Mick making a living wrestling crocodiles for tourists and competing with fellow survivalist, friend and business rival Jacko, when Sue is made an offer to become the head of a newspaper company owned by her father in Los Angles, the family take a trip to California which leads to Mick going undercover as an amateur sleuth hoping to uncover the truth of the mysterious death of Sue’s predecessor at the newspaper who was investigating a film studio.
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[[caption-width-right:350: G’Day.]]

!!Sequels

[[folder: ''Crocodile Dundee II'' (1988)]]

''Crocodile Dundee II'' is an 1988 {{Action|Genre}}-{{Comedy}} sequel to Film/CrocodileDundee with Creator/PaulHogan and Creator/LindaKozlowski returning to play Mick “crocodile” Dundee and Sue Charlton.

!!Tropes

[[folder: ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'' (2001)]]

''Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles'' is a 2001 {{Action|Genre}}-{{Comedy}} sequel to Film/CrocodileDundee and ''Crocodile Dundee II'' with Creator/PaulHogan and Creator/LindaKozlowski returning once again to play Mick “crocodile” Dundee and Sue Charlton.

!!Tropes

* {{Hypocrite}}: The man who accuses Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher is discovered to one himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The man who accuses Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

''Crocodile Dundee II'' is an 1988 {{Action}}-{{Comedy}} sequel to Film/CrocodileDundee with Creator/PaulHogan and Creator/LindaKozlowski returning to play Mick “crocodile” Dundee and Sue Charlton.

''Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles'' is a 2001 {{Action}}-{{Comedy}} sequel to Film/CrocodileDundee and ''Crocodile Dundee II'' with Creator/PaulHogan and Creator/LindaKozlowski returning once again to play Mick “crocodile” Dundee and Sue Charlton.

** The tracker Luis brings in to help them track Mick in the Outback in ''II''. The second he learns that it's ''Dundee'' they're chasing, he immediately vanishes into the bush.

* SecretlyWealthy: The second movie reveals that Mick has claim on large tracts of land. The land, he admits, is mostly worthless if not for the fact that it houses an actual gold mine.
* ShootTheHostage: Mic shoots Walter in the ear to save his life by making the drug lords think Mick feels he is too valuable to be allowed to live.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

* Hypocrite The man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

** Ironically we learn that the man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

** Ironically we learn that the man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself.

* HypocriticalHumor: In the first film, Mick attacks the man in the Walkabout Creek bar who accuses him of poaching crocodiles because he "won't have anyone using bad language in front of a lady", yet he has absolutely no qualms with saying "bastard" and "shit" when it's just Sue and himself.

* SuicideAsComedy: Mick talks to a guy who wants to jump from a skyscraper because LoveHurts. Mick pretends he just wants to walk past him to enjoy some fresh air and subtly tries to talk him out of it. The unhappy man appears to be gay or Bi which surprises Mick -- who almost falls down himself.

* SuicideAsComedy: Mick talks to a guy who wants to jump from a skyscraper because LoveHurts. Mick pretends he just wants to walk past him to enjoy some fresh air and subtly tries to talk him out of it. The unhappy man is actually gay which surprises Mick -- who almost falls down himself.

** Ironically we learn that the man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos.

** Ironically we learn that the man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting kangaroos.

** The joke is doubled when learn that the man who accused Mick of being a poacher is in fact a poacher himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting kangaroos.

** Ironically, we learn that the man is himself a poacher when Mick and Sue encounter a him and bunch of drunken hunters shooting kangaroos out in the bush.