Review of Crocodile Dundee II (1988) by Dg J — 15 Aug 2011

A year has passed since the events in Crocodile Dundee. Mick Dundee and Sue Charlton are living happily together in New York. Although Mick's naïveté toward city life is a hazard at times while he tries to continue the life he is used to living - which includes dynamite-fishing in Manhattan waters - Sue's story has provided his pardon by making him a popular public figure. He makes contact with and goes to work for Leroy Brown, a stationery salesman trying to live up to his self-perceived 'bad guy in the streets' image.

While working for the DEA in Colombia, Sue's ex-husband Bob (mentioned, but not seen, in the first movie) takes pictures of a drug cartel leader's murder of an unknown person, and is spotted by one of the cartel's sentries. Before being murdered, he sends his pictures to Sue. Colombian Cartel leader Luis Rico, and his brother & top lieutenant, Miguel, go to New York City to retrieve the evidence.

In order to do so, the gangsters hold Sue hostage, whereupon Mick asks Leroy for help. Leroy contacts a local street gang, whom Mick assigns to create a distraction by caterwauling at the mansion's perimeter, leading most of the guards on a wild chase and making them nervous, while Mick sneaks inside and rescues Sue. Rico is arrested but soon escapes police custody, and after a failed attempt to kill Sue, Mick decides to take Sue to Australia in order to take the fight onto familiar ground. In Walkabout Creek, Mick is enthusiastically welcomed back by his friends; after provisioning, he and Sue take refuge in his personal land, named Belonga Mick ("Mick's Place"). Here, Sue discovers that Mick owns land equal to the size of New York State, including a gold mine.

Rico and his men track their quarry to Australia, where some local thugs are hired to assist them in their search; but their Aboriginal tracker abandons them when he hears that their quarry is Mick. As a replacement, the gangsters kidnap Mick's friend Walter and force him to guide them. Mick saves his friend by grazing him with a bullet and making it look like an attempt on Walter's life. They then lead the gangsters on a wild goose chase through the Outback territory, during which Mick, by use of his survival skills, cunning trickery, and the help of his Aboriginal friends, manages to reduce the opposition's numbers one by one, leaving the rest increasingly nervous. In the end, he retrieves Walter from Rico and Miguel, leaving the latter to face him alone.