The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee: reviews

What the critics say average 3.5 from 15 outlets

• 6.0 What to WatchTodd Gilchrist The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee makes a very good argument for the benefits of slowing down and getting a little rest. Read
• 6.0 Film AuthorityEddie Harrison Hogan's unusual willingness to be the butt of jokes about himself just about gets this oddball little film over the line. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianLuke Buckmaster You wouldn't want to overstate the film's achievements, given that a lot of it comes across as weird, self-pitying flapdoodle. But this is, as they say, progress of a kind. Read
• 4.0 ScreenHubAnthony Morris He should be the best thing about this film, as he's clearly still capable of being a charming larrikin when the script (briefly, occasionally) calls for it. Instead, he's the worst. Read
• 4.0 FlicksTravis Johnson If you're feeling undemanding and nostalgic, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee might scratch those itches quite satisfactorily, as long as you can ignore how self-congratulatory and low stakes the whole exercise is. Read
• 4.0 Susan GrangerSusan Granger None of this is even remotely funny. Indeed, it's rather pathetic, as are cameos of fellow Aussies Luke Hemsworth, Mel Gibson and Jim Jeffries. Read
• 4.0 PopEntertainmentJay S. Jacobs There is still no real reason to bring this franchise back after all these years, but I will give them credit for trying to do something a little different with it. I just wish it worked better than it does. Read
• 4.0 Common Sense MediaBrian Costello Basically, Paul Hogan plays Larry David in a pale imitation of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Read
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck Incorporating Curb Your Enthusiasm-style meta humor, with the actor playing a rather depressed version of himself, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee makes one long for such comparatively stellar Hogan vehicles as Almost an Angel and Lightning Jack. Read
• 3.0 VarietyRichard Kuipers The idea of Paul Hogan playing himself and poking fun at his career downturn after the first two "Crocodile Dundee" films isn't a bad one. But the execution of "The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee" is anything but excellent. Read
• 3.0 In Review OnlineSteven Warner Objectively, this is a terrible film, featuring more greenscreen than The Phantom Menace, and a directing style that can charitably be described as lazy. Read
• 2.5 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper This is a poorly shot, terribly lit, badly edited, amateurish would-be comedy that makes Hogan the butt of the joke and turns him into a doddering, hapless fool out of step with the world around him. Read
• 2.5 Dennis Schwartz Movie ReviewsDennis Schwartz The Crocodile Dundee star pokes fun at himself in a good-natured way and at how his career went down the tubes, but nothing is funny or anything you should care about. Read
• 2.0 The Sydney Morning HeraldBrad Newsome Paul Hogan has always been a buoyant, optimistic presence on our screens, so it's particularly sad that this particularly awful new movie brings us the newly octogenarian Hogan playing himself as a man mortally diminished in every way. Read
• 1.0 Culture MixCarla Hay Unfortunately, the "Crocodile Dundee" movie series is like a good meal that went rotten years ago, then retrieved from the trash, and then served up to people who never asked for this stinking mess in the first place. Read