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Director
John Stainton
Cast
Steve Irwin,
Terri Irwin,
Magda Szubanski,
David Wenham,
Lachy Hulme,
Aden Young
Genre
Adventure,
Comedy,
Family
When a United States owned satellite explodes and its beacon is sent to Earth and swallowed by an Australian crocodile, the CIA send two agents to retrieve it. Their plan is complicated however by Steve and Terri Irwin, who are hired to relocate the crocodile as part of their wildlife television show.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
Los Angeles Times by John Anderson
So refreshing and funny and, in its way, sophisticated.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
When I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Forget the plot. The movie is really about Steve and Terri taking us on a guided tour of the crocs, snakes, deadly insects and other stars of the outback fauna. Steve's act is simplicity itself.
L.A. Weekly
Thankfully, the film, which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality -- Irwin as "himself" as croc expert as suspected international spy -- takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the Croc Hunter agenda: Mother Nature? Don’t muck with her.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A curiously thrilling and often hilarious experience.
L.A. Weekly by Gendy Alimurung
Thankfully, the film, which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality -- Irwin as "himself" as croc expert as suspected international spy -- takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the Croc Hunter agenda: Mother Nature? Don’t muck with her.
Variety by Todd McCarthy
A perfectly respectable kid-friendly family offering.
Chicago Reader by Hank Sartin
Kids used to watching him on TV might find it all perfectly normal, but for adults it's almost an acid trip.
Boston Globe
The downtimes are so flat that it makes you wonder whether director John Stainton and writer Holly Goldberg Sloan made them intentionally bad, just so we'd look forward to seeing Irwin again.
Boston Globe by Christy Lemire
The downtimes are so flat that it makes you wonder whether director John Stainton and writer Holly Goldberg Sloan made them intentionally bad, just so we'd look forward to seeing Irwin again.
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
Possibly the most unintentionally hilarious film since Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space," Steve Irwin's big-screen debut is destined to become an instant cult classic.
USA Today by Mike Clark
Though Walt Disney's Peter Pan once implored us never to smile at a crocodile, the Irwins' own home movie is worth a couple of chuckles. Shivers, too.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film's wittiest moment comes before it starts: the familiar MGM lion is replaced by a roaring crocodile when the studio's logo appears.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
It is not a great ad-vain-cha, and it's a lousy movie. But it underscores Irwin's kitschy popularity as a sideshow entertainer on the Animal Planet channel, where he cheerfully wrestles or rescues all manner of Aussie wildlife while telling the camera what great danger he is in.
Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis
Nothing more than an extended version of the syndicated television program, with the unkempt Irwin spending most of the movie excitedly shouting at the camera as he taunts something venomous.
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