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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The (2002)

Australian Cinema - MED231

Lecturer - Dr Garry Gillard

Assignment 2
`by Dave Brain
Credits
1.)

Producer:
Judi Bailey
Arnold Rifkin
John Stainton

Director:
John Stainton (story)

Writer:
Holly Goldberg-Sloan (screenplay)
John Stainton (story)

Cast:
Steve Irwin
Terri Irwin
Magda Szubanski
David Wenham
Kate Beahan
Kenneth Ransom
Lachy Hulme
Steve Bastoni
Aden Young
Steve Vidler

Director of Photography:
David Burr

Editor:
Suresh Ayyar
Bob Blasdall

Composer:
Mark McDuff

International Sales Agent:
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
2500 Broadway
Santa Monica CA 90404
USA
Ph: +1 310 449 3000
Fax: +1 310 449 3100

Release Dates

Theatrical: Jul 12, 2002
Video: Dec 17, 2002

Box Office

$28,286,973

VHS Rentals:

$1,270,000

Web

The web is inundated with information on Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, and the movie Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002). This is largely due to the notoriety the Crocodile Hunter has earnt through his series being viewed on Animal Planet in the U.S. and various other " Nature" cable channels worldwide. This has given the Crocodile Hunter brand name and the Irwin's the heavy media attention that is reflected in their web presence, but more recent news has not been the most positive due to the "Is Bob Bait?" affair. A search under the title of Crocodile Hunter on the Google search engine turned up over 198,000 results 7.), and a the full title search, Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, turned up 44,200 results. 8.)

Methodology

The first part of my methodology consisted of hiring The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course DVD from my local video library. I then went Home and before starting to watch the movie utilised the Links from the MED231 website to open up some of the movie review websites and conducted a search via the Google website search engine. Whilst looking at the results my subsequent searches brought up I then looked at some of the reviews already done on the OzFilm Database to see what it was that was required for the end product of the project. I then watched the film on DVD and investigated all the extras provided. Following this I also accessed both the Crocodile Hunter website and the MGM sponsored official movie website. I continued looking at news and reviews provided me through my web surfing trying to achieve an overall feel for the films presence and how it is situated both here in Australia and Internationally. I found that the internet was the best method of researching the film due to its only having been released in 2002.

Critical review

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Reviewed by Dave Brain, 2004.

Synopsis:

This film is the story of what happens when Steve Irwin and wife Terri, go to remove a problem crocodile in Australia's North Queensalnd that has eaten a piece of space junk owned by the American government, and the attempts of the bumbling American Special Agents trying to retrieve it. Crikey! Watchout! With a mad shotgun wielding farmer, useless American Special Agents, and the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, himself running around their is enough insanity for all the family to enjoy.

Plot:

This film is structured around the normal format of the "Crocodile Hunter" television series. What's needed to make it into a Feature film then? A croc in trouble or a troublesome croc. A redneck farmer trying to solve the trouble herself, shotgun wielding, redneck style. An Australian ranger is trying to keep the farmer in check supplying the instigation for the croc hunter to come to the rescue and move the croc. Throw in some dopey American Special Agents trying retrieve the remnants of a spy satellite that has been swallowed by aforementioned croc therefore bringing all the pieces of the plot together on, wait for it, that's right, a collision course. Crikey! The plot is drizzily thin and doesn't need to be much more as Steve Irwin's antics are the reason that you would go and see this film, it's a laugh.

Review:

The most important thing to remember when watching this film is its target audience and the type of film that it is. This is a family type of film targeted to be received across a broad audience age spectrum. It can also be seen to fall into the genre's of "Action/Adventure, Wilderness, Animals, Rescue, Wild Animals, Australia, Wildlife" as the web review site Rotten Tomatoes states 9.). If this is understood then it can be seen that this is what Director, John Stainton, has provided for us. It can also be placed in the comedy genre as the Dark Horizons website10.) places it. This comes in the form of farce or spoof, as this is what is achieved in the mockery of the high-tech American government agencies attempts, in the sub-plot, to retrieve the treasured space junk from the croc. Steve himself, whilst serious about his business, comes across to his audience as a bit of an insane loony at which the audience readily laughs as well. His intensity and passion for his industry are second to none. This is what makes his show and what saves the film from total disaster. What we see when Steve is onscreen is in the television format that speaks of the reality from where his Crocodile Hunter series comes from. When the film sinks into the pit of the sub-plot, Director John Stainton has switched to the cinema's Widescreen format. This method of format switching has not to my knowledge been done in a feature film before. It acts to separate perceptions and storylines in another method, and I feel that this is admirable in todays high tech media world.

Critical uptake

This film is thought about in many different ways. It falls into many genres a comedy, an Action movie, a Drama, a Thriller, a Documentary, a Reality TV/Film. This has therefore given it a range of reviews, but it was in the top ten the week it opened and the following week and had recovered its budget of $13 million dollars It is ranked 47 in the movie marshall's list of Australian box office figures and will probably continue to earn money into the near future.
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Circumstances of production/release
5.)
Production Companies

* Animal Planet [us]
* Best Picture Show Company [au]
* Cheyenne Enterprises [us]
* Discovery Channel Pictures [us]
* J&M Entertainment [us]
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) [us]
* Winchester Films

Distributors

* 20th Century Fox Italia [it]
* 20th Century Fox Netherlands [nl]
* 20th Century Fox de Argentina [ar] (Argentina)
* 20th Century Fox of Germany [de]
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation (MGM) [us]
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) [us]
* UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD) [fr]

Special Effects

* Animal Logic

Filmographies

Suffice to say that it was interesting looking at the broad range of films that the people involved in this production have also been involved in. I found that the most useful information could be obtained from the Internet Movie Database and have therefore provided links to their site listings for the filmographies.

Director, Producer, Writer:
John Stainton (story)

Producer:
Judi Bailey - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0047336/filmoyear
Arnold Rifkin - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0726476/filmoyear

Writer:
Holly Goldberg-Sloan (screenplay) -
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0805965/filmoyear

Cast:
Steve Irwin - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0410455/filmoyear
Terri Irwin - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0410457/filmoyear
Magda Szubanski - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0844294/filmoyear
David Wenham - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0920992/filmoyear
Kate Beahan - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0063571/filmoyear
Kenneth Ransom - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0710408/filmoyear
Lachy Hulme - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0401522/filmoyear
Steve Bastoni - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0060561/filmoyear
Aden Young - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0949237/filmoyear
Steve Vidler - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0896509/filmoyear

Director of Photography:
David Burr - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0122999/filmoyear

Editor:
Suresh Ayyar - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0044064/filmoyear
Bob Blasdall - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1144915/filmoyear

Composer:
Mark McDuff - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1197944/filmoyear

Executive Producer:
Bruce Willis - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/filmoyear



Value of Australian film

This is an amazing film in terms of the way in which it has been constructed and is readily consumed as an Australian film on a collision course with an American film. Obviously Steve is pretty well recognised as being an Australian, the film was shot in Australia, Directed and Produced by Australians, and is definitely a unique and quirky Australian Film.

News

News from the InternetMovieDataBase for:
Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The (2002)
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No Charges for Irwin After Croc Stunt
23 January 2004 (WENN)
Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin will not be charged for dangling his baby under his arm while he fed crocodiles at an Australian zoo on New Year's Day. The animal expert-turned-TV star was interviewed by the Office Of Workplace Health and Safety, who concluded there isn't enough evidence to suggest he violated any safety regulations. The decision is set to infuriate children's charities, who were up in arms when they saw the footage of Irwin holding tot Bob near the huge reptiles. But Irwin has defended his actions, saying, "It's all about perceived danger; I was in complete control. People say, 'Well, what if you had fallen?' But for that to take place, a meteorite would have had to come out of the sky and hit Australia."


MGM Roars Over Strong Quarter
6 February 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Riding the strong box-office performance for the James Bond film Die Another Day and lively holiday sales of its DVD library, MGM on Wednesday reported a 50-percent boost in net revenue for its fourth-quarter. Net income totaled $58.7 million versus $39.1 million for the comparable quarter a year ago. Die Another Day, which grossed $160 million in North America and $382 million overseas, reversed a series of expensive failures that the studio had experienced earlier in the year with Hart's War, Windtalkers, and Rollerball. The company said it also made profits in the fourth quarter with Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, Barbershop, Bowling for Columbine and Igby Goes Down.


Crocodile Hunter Set for TV Talk Show
8 January 2003 (WENN)
Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course star Steve Irwin has landed his own talk show - and his first guest could be as 'A' list as they come. The Aussie daredevil, famous for his encounters with a range of deadly animals, will film a series of special programs for Australian television which could be sold around the world. It is possible that his first guest could be his new friend and fellow Antipodean Russell Crowe. The pair hit it off at a recent meeting and swiftly became firm friends and the presence of Crowe on the show could guarantee its international marketability.


Little Was Littler
23 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
When the clock struck one (or thereabouts) on Monday, the mouse ran down the clock, forced into second-place as final box-office ticket sales revealed that DreamWorks' Road to Perdition was the highest-grossing film over the weekend, not Sony's Stuart Little 2 as estimates had indicated. Perdition reached the top spot despite the fact that it was screened in only 2,159 locations, against 3,255 for Little and 3,641 for the No. 3 film, Men in Black II.Overall, the box office tallied $119.8 million, down 18 percent from the same weekend a year ago.
The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Road to Perdition, DreamWorks, $15,412,515, 2 Wks. ($47,304,790); 2. Stuart Little 2, Sony, $15,115,152, (New); 3. Men In Black II, Sony, $14,552,335, 3 Wks. ($158,127,629); 4. K-19: The Widowmaker, Paramount, $12,778,459, (New); 5. Reign of Fire, Disney, $7,317,994, 2 Wks. ($29,246,331); 6. Mr. Deeds, Sony, $7,312,128, 4 Wks. ($107,630,816); 7. Eight Legged Freaks, Warner Bros., $6,485,458, 1 Wk. (Opened Wednesday), ($9,080,158); 8. Halloween: Resurrection, Miramax/Dimension, $5,520,536, 2 Wks. ($21,952,979); 9. Lilo & Stitch, Disney, $4,973,660, 5 Wks. ($128,431,916); 10. Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, MGM, $4,667,895, 2 Wks. ($18,726,625).


Even at No. 1, Stuart Little Lives Up to Its Name
22 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
The scorching hot summer box office suddenly cooled off over the weekend. Although Stuart Little 2 opened as the weekend's top film, its $15.6-million take could not have brought much pleasure to executives at Columbia, who reportedly okayed expenditures of more than $130 million on the mouse movie. (Many analysts had predicted a $25-million opening for it.) Sony distribution chief Jeff Blake told today's (Monday) Los Angeles Times: "With a family film, you hope for a good opening and great legs. ... You hope for seven-day-a-week business, where whatever you lose in opening weekend you hope to pick up in the longevity of the picture." But the biggest disappointment may have been the tanking of Harrison Ford's submarine thriller, K-19 -- The Widowmaker, which opened in fourth place with just $13.1 million, about half of Ford's salary for the movie, which reportedly cost a total of $100 million to make. In its second week DreamWorks' Road to Perdition came within about $30,000 of taking the lead (and it still might end up there when final figures are released late Monday). With an estimated gross of $15.57 million, the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg collaboration remained in second place. Eight Legged Freaks, the only other movie to debut over the weekend, produced the kind of horror at the box office that critics said it lacked on the screen, as it earned only $6.7 million ($9.3 million since its opening on Wednesday). After two weeks at No. 1, Men in Black II dropped to third place with just $15 million.
The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Stuart Little 2, $15.6 million; 1. Road to Perdition, $15.57 million; 3. Men in Black II, $15 million; 4. K-19: The Widowmaker, $13.1 million; 5. Mr. Deeds, $7.3 million; 6. Reign of Fire, $7.1 million; 7. Eight Legged Freaks, $6.7 million; 8. Halloween: Resurrection, $5.4 million; 9. Lilo & Stitch, $5.1 million; 10. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, $4.8 million.


Now You See It. Puff. Now You Don't
18 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Despite a warm critical reception, the Cartoon Network's feature film, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, a movie version of the network's hit TV series, has tanked at the box office, earning just $9.6 million through its first two weeks. Almost simultaneously, another spin-off from a cable kids channel, Hey, Arnold! The Movie from Nickelodeon Films, also flopped. Both films faced stiff competition from the likes of Men in Black II, Lilo & Stitch, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, Like Mike, and Scooby-Doo.The poor showing for the Powerpuff Girls feature was "a big disappointment," Cartoon Network General Manager Jim Samples told the Atlanta Journal Constitution Wednesday. He indicated that the the next time the channel decides to make a movie, it will be more careful about selecting a release date. He also observed that ever since the movie hit the theater screens, TV audiences for the Powerpuff Girls cartoon series have been rising dramatically.


Road To Remuneration
16 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
DreamWorks' plan to open Road to Perdition modestly, allow word-of-mouth to build, and increase the number of theaters slowly may have appeared unnecessarily conservative given last weekend's results, which showed audiences packing theaters showing the Tom Hanks/Paul Newman feature. Exhibited in 1,797 theaters, the film averaged $12,287 per location. That compares with the $6,760 average that the No. 1 film, Men in Black II, earned at 3,611 theaters. Nevertheless, MiB2 was able to add $24.4 million to its take to bring its total gross after two weeks to $132.7 million. Road to Perdition followed with $22.1 million.
The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):
1. Men in Black II, Sony, $24,410,311, 2 Wks. ($132,688,511); 2. Road to Perdition, DreamWorks, $22,079,481, (New); 3. Reign of Fire, Disney, $15,632,281, (New); 4. Halloween: Resurrection, Miramax/Dimension, $12,292,121, (New); 5. Mr. Deeds, Sony, $10,842,415, 3 Wks. ($93,975,613); 6. Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, MGM, $9,537,123, (New); 7. Lilo & Stitch, Disney, $8,024,738, 4 Wks. ($118,411,367); 8. Like Mike, 20th Century Fox, $7,833,279, 2 Wks. ($32,819,934); 9. Minority Report, 20th Century Fox, $7,216,069, 4 Wks. ($110,137,457); 10. The Bourne Identity, Universal, $5,761,380, 5 Wks. ($99,026,945).


A Road More Traveled
15 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Road to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, failed to unseat Men in Black II from the top spot at the box office over the weekend, but it did earn more money than most analysts had expected -- $22.1 million, despite playing in half the number of theaters that featured MiB2. The Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones sequel, nevertheless, took in $25 million, bringing its total after 12 days to $133.3 million. In a remarkably hot weekend (figuratively and climatologically) Reign of Fire also performed strongly, taking in $16 million despite mostly negative reviews. Halloween: Resurrection resurrected the Halloween franchise effectively, earning $12.3 million. The only other film to open wide, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, earned $10 million -- not bad considering its relatively low cost. Ticket sales for the top 12 films totaled $130.75 million, up nearly 20 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago, according to Exhibitor Relations.
The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Men in Black II, $25 million; 2. Road to Perdition, $22.1 million; 3. Reign of Fire, $16 million; 4. Halloween: Resurrection, $12.3 million; 5. Mr. Deeds, $11 million; 6. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, $10 million; 7. Like Mike, $7.6 million; 8. Lilo & Stitch, $7.6 million; 9. Minority Report, $7.4 million; 10. The Bourne Identity, $5.8 million.


MGM Talks Losses
20 June 2002 (StudioBriefing)
MGM's long hoped-for return to its onetime glory has received a setback from the apparent failure of its inaugural summer release Windtalkers, following three earlier duds. Windtalkers, which reportedly cost $100 million to produce, grossed only $14.5 million in its debut last weekend. Merrill Lynch entertainment analyst Jessica Reif Cohen predicted the company would have an operating loss of $125 million this year, versus an estimated loss of $25 million before Windtalkers tanked. She maintained her "neutral" rating of the stock, which has fallen 5 percent since box-office results were announced on Monday. Other analysts quickly downgraded their ratings. The studio's next release is the relatively low-budget The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, starring Steve Irwin, due to open on July 12.

MGM Looking For "Smaller Movies"
7 March 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Battered with big losses from two expensive flops, Hart's War and Rollerball, MGM is now looking for profits from "smaller movies," Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. MGM COO Chris McGurk told the wire service, "The best situation for any studio is when one of these little movies breaks out and becomes a hit," he said. Among the studio's upcoming releases are Barbershop ($12 million), A Guy Thing ($20 million), Dark Blue ($5 million), and Family Jewels ($6 million). MGM distribution chief Erik Lomis predicted that the studio's upcoming Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, which cost less than $13 million to make, would become "a huge summer sleeper."

Recent News Headlines from the Sydney Morning Herald website for:
Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The (2002)
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Crocodile hunter flees from media frenzy
The crocodile hunter has become the hunted. Steve Irwin, who caused an uproar when he held his baby son while feeding a saltwater crocodile on Friday, packed up his family yesterday and took his leave from his prized Australia Zoo.
Sydney Morning Herald 05/01/2004


Crocodile hunter now the hunted as world's media have Irwin in their sights
A nomination for Australian of the year, lunch with US President George Bush, a hit TV show. Life seemed rosy for Steve Irwin.
The Age 05/01/2004

Baby Bob to stay in croc school, but no cameras please
The crocodile hunter Steve Irwin says he will continue to teach his baby boy about crocodiles but not in front of the cameras.
Sydney Morning Herald 06/01/2004

Baby Bob to stay in croc school, but no cameras please
The crocodile hunter Steve Irwin says he will continue to teach his baby boy about crocodiles but not in front of the cameras.
Sydney Morning Herald 06/01/2004 Cost - $1.65 293 words


No place for babies, one who should know
Victoria's own crocodile hunter Greg Parker jokes that his local hospital knows him all too well.
The Age 06/01/2004 Cost - $1.65 489 words


A feeding frenzy of his own making
Crocodile man Steve Irwin should accept the silliness of his antics.
The Age 06/01/2004 Cost - $1.65 474 words


She'll have their guts for gators
SHE ``rules the roost, steals the best egg site and takes up the most space" in the Australian Reptile Park 's alligator enclosure.
Sun Herald 04/01/2004 Cost - $1.65 489 words


Crikey! Praise for PM puts you in a snake pit
STEVE Irwin is everyone's favourite Aussie crocodile hunter. And while he was never feted in his homeland like he is in the US, he was widely regarded with benign condescension. That is until last month, when he made the deadly error of alienating Australia's cultural establishment.
Sun Herald 09/11/2003

Links to Interviews with Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin and John Stainton for the film, Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course at About.com

http://actionadventure.about.com/library/weekly/2002/aa070602.htm
http://actionadventure.about.com/library/weekly/2002/aa041202.htm
http://romanticmovies.about.com/library/weekly/aa070502a.htm

Reviews

Available from RottenTomatoes:
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"Thankfully, the film, which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality ... takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the Croc Hunter agenda." L.A. Weekly Gendy Alimurung

3/4 "Goofy, nutty, consistently funny. And educational!" Los Angeles Times John Anderson

1/4 "This is a truly, truly bad movie." San Francisco Examiner Jeffrey M. Anderson

C "... (like)channel surfing between the Discovery Channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie." Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

2/4 "No matter how firmly director John Stainton has his tongue in his cheek, the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make." SPLICEDWire Rob Blackwelder

0/5 "Hey, at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading." Film Threat Eric Campos
"The filmmakers wisely decided to let Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him." HoleCity.com Catherine Cantieri

3.5/5 "I just saw this movie... well, it's probably not accurate to call it a movie." Daily-Reviews Shay Casey

2/4 "Whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the CIA and a lost U.S. satellite, Hunter -- starring Irwin and his American wife/colleague, Terri -- is a movie children should enjoy." USA Today Mike Clark

B- "Irwin shines doing what he does best..." Trades Sean Conover

1.5/4 "Crikey indeed." Amazing Colossal Website David Cornelius

2/5 "If you're not fans of the adventues of Steve and Terri, you should avoid this like the dreaded King Brown snake. Personally, I'd rather watch them on the Animal Planet." TheMovieChicks.com Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone

1/4 "Dull, lifeless, and amateurishly assembled." Mark Reviews Movies Mark Dujsik

3/4 "You see a couple of likable people journeying though the outback, encountering dangerous critters and getting too close for comfort, while lecturing us on their habits and dangers and almost being killed by them." Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

2/4 "Irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free." Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

2.5/4 "Irwin, due to his goofy but engaging and personable manner... makes the film far more enjoyable than it otherwise might have been. " Movie Parables Michael Elliott

C+ "Irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs. There are far worse messages to teach a young audience, which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy." Journal News (Westchester, NY) Marshall Fine

B- "Irwin's zeal for for the beauties and oddities of his homeland is infectious. By the end of the movie, you'll probably think Irwin something of a beauty and oddity, too." Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

1/4 "A laughable -- or rather, unlaughable -- excuse for a film." Detroit News Adam Graham

2/4 "As it stands, Crocodile Hunter has the hurried, badly cobbled look of the 1959 Godzilla, which combined scenes of a Japanese monster flick with canned shots of Raymond Burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction." San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

2.5/4 "Most of Collision Course is exactly like Irwin's TV work." St. Paul Pioneer Press Chris Hewitt

4/5 "Steve Irwin's method is Ernest Hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume." Film Snobs Stephen Himes
"This isn't a good movie; this isn't a bad movie. This is a movie that dispenses with the whole good/bad paradigm and exists on its own plane of reality." Flick Filosopher MaryAnn Johanson

3/10 "As it stands, however, with its switching back and forth between screen ratios and the horrible, tacked-on subplot, the film simply doesn't work that well." Screen It! Jim Judy

2/4 "Everything that's worthwhile about Collision Course can already be seen on television." Reel.com Mary Kalin-Casey

2/4 "Whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex, the edge-of-your-seat, educational antics of Steve Irwin are priceless entertainment." Seattle Times Tom Keogh

2.5/4 "Irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films, but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater." cinemaphine.org David Keyes

2/4 "Why, you may ask, why should you buy the movie milk when the TV cow is free? There's no good answer to that one." Globe and Mail Liam Lacey

1/5 "The Irwins' scenes are fascinating; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts." Sacramento News & Review Jim Lane

0/4 "A dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the Animal Planet documentary series, Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring." Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) Josh Larsen

3/5 "I highly recommend Irwin, but not in the way this film showcases him." filmcritic.com David Levine
"A lightweight confection that delivers exactly what it promises." Variety Todd McCarthy

2.5/5 "The Irwins emerge unscathed, but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted." TV Guide's Movie Guide Maitland McDonagh

3/5 "If you're a Crocodile Hunter fan, you'll enjoy at least the "real" portions of the film. If you're looking for a story, don't bother." Film Quips Online John R. McEwen

3/4 "The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is one of the most unusual movies I've ever seen, but it remains faithful to Irwin's appeal, and therefore it works."

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53. Reel.com [Mary Kalin-Casey]
54. Reviewguy Online [Sean Chandler]
55. Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
56. Shadows on the Wall [Rich Cline]
57. The Trades [Sean Conover]
58. The Onion A.V. Club [Nathan Rabin]
59. TheWorldJournal.com

Other decent Review Links
http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/crocodilehunter/
http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=5984
http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=5984&reviewer=247
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/archive/2002/crocodilehunter.shtml

References:

1.)
http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/recntfilms/0304/feature_63.aspx
2.) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheCrocodileHunterCollisionCourse-1114622/reviews.php?critic=1
3.)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0305396/externalreviews
4.)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0305396/news
5.)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0305396/companycredits
6.)
http://newsstore.f2.com.au/apps/newsSearch.ac?ac=search&rs=1&st=dc&ss=SMH&sy=smh&sf=all&dt=selectRange&dr=1year&so=relevance&sp=0&rc=10&pb=all_ffx&kw=crocodile+hunter
7.)http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Crocodile+Hunter&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
8.)
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Crocodile+Hunter%3A+Collision+Course&btnG=Search&meta=
9.)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheCrocodileHunterCollisionCourse-1114622/reviews.php?critic=approved&sortby=rating&page=2
10).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1114622/reviews.php?critic=approved&sortby=rating&page=11&rid=741764
11.)
http://www.moviemarshal.com/idg-australianfilms.html