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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | 23948__croc2_l
WHAT A CROC Conservationist Irwin goes wild in ''Collision Course''
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Release Date: Jul 12, 2002; Rated: PG; Length: 89 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy; With: Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

The ravenous crocs, venemous snakes, and impassioned conservationists are the real things in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Steve Irwin -- a manic, sunstroked Ozzie -- rattles across Far North Queensland, rescuing animals and honking into the camera just as he does on his popular Animal Planet show, while his American Campfire Girl of a wife, Terri, hauls gear. But the mad genius of this cheerily bonkers feature is the integration of a documentary-style safari into an outlandish fiction involving a fancy-pants CIA pursuit of a downed spy satellite, and a shotgun-wielding outback widow.

The outside-the-box premise invented by John Stainton (in which Stevo supposedly has no idea of the make-believe mayhem, and thinks the cartoon CIA heavies must be poachers) clears the traps of campiness by a short kangaroo hop. Crikey, who cares? The daft thing is wild about wildlife.


Posted Jul 10, 2002
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