Comedies involving Paul Hogan
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This section is for comedies involving Paul Hogan as an actor, director or writer. By default the movies are presented starting with those ranking highest on the laugh-o-meter, but you can also sort them by year, title or IMDB rating.
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Paul Hogan is said to have been born on Sunday 8 October 1939, which would make him 84 years, 6 months and 26 days old (if this date is accurate and he is alive today).
Titles involving Paul Hogan sorted by Laugh-o-meter (descending)
Paul Hogan was credited as
writer and
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
46 years old.
Crocodile Dundee
1986 |
Australia | Laughs: 9.2 (Laugh Out Loud) |
imdb: 6.6
wikipedia |
who was involved?
Before leaving Australia after she finishes her job, a New York reporter goes to the Northern Territory to write a feature about a tour guide who has survived an attack by a crocodile. To complete the story, the newspaper flies the charming bushman over to the United States to see how he will survive New York. I love this movie: it makes me laugh—a lot—and it shows Australia at its best in the person of Crocodile Dundee, a man who behaves as if all the people he meets are his equal (well, as long as they're men). This trait remains strong in the national self-image, though it has suffered in the years since the movie came out as Australians have had to face the challenge of surviving the globalized world.
Crocodile Dundee II is not one tenth as funny.
(Last viewed: July 2010)
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Paul Hogan was credited as
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
69 years old.
Charlie & Boots
2009 |
Australia | Laughs: 2.6 (Light-Hearted) |
imdb: 6.4
wikipedia |
who was involved?
This is not the kind of movie I call a "comedy", though it is certainly light-hearted.
The two main actors from
Crocodile Dundee and
Kenny together in an Australian road trip movie: that's a big draw, a formula that promises entertainment, fine landscapes, a good yarn, laughs and lots of smiles. But I'm sure you sure know that when the studios think they have a winning formula in hand, they under-deliver. The landscapes are there, the actors do a great job, the movie is sweet— but the story is very thin indeed. The film cruises on the skill (or looks) of the actors and the beauty of the landscapes, which are conveniently devoid of the hordes of retired baby boomers living in caravans filled with made-in-China junk—the hordes that litter every Australian back-road these days. A silent documentary would have done the trick.
(Last viewed: January 2014)
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Paul Hogan was credited as
writer and
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
48 years old.
Crocodile Dundee II
1988 |
Australia | Laughs: N/A (Light-Hearted) |
imdb: 5.7
wikipedia |
who was involved?
Two stars. The best thing about this movie is the poster. Unlike the original
Crocodile Dundee, this is not so much a comedy as a light-hearted adventure movie. The cocaine-drug-lord story line is as weak as it gets, but the film has its good moments, especially once the plot tears itself away from New York and moves back to Australia. No matter how awful the screen writers you throw at him, Paul Hogan's character is good value.
(Last viewed: September 2010)
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