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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A curiously thrilling and often hilarious experience.
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
When I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
50
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.
80
Los Angeles Times by John Anderson
So refreshing and funny and, in its way, sophisticated.
83
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.
50
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.
50
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.
30
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.