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A |
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B |
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Deeper than you'd think
by Steven (movies profile)
Apr 25, 2006
Outdoorsman faces off with the fakeness of Hollywood. Superficially this is what is happening in the plot, it is funny on the surface because it is the same joke used over and over again in the original movies. But here is what is different, while the movie makes fun of the fact that Hollywood is fake, it is itself a very poor Hollywood style movie. You have to laugh at the stereo types; the Australian who is nothing more than a combination of stereotypes, the bad guy who is nothing more than a combination of the greedy Hollywood producer stereotypes, the thugs who are again just stereotypes of eastern European thugs. The movie makes fun by generalizing Californians and Hollywood, but at the same time it uses every cliché in the book. I think the movie is a spoof of itself. Dundee drives a Subaru around, carries what he calls a pocket knife that is huge, thinks everyone is nice, say’s “g’day” all the time. Who in their right mind would regurgitate a plot like that, an idiot… or a genius?
The plot is predicable, you know who the bad guys are just by the way they dress, they added a cute little kid. Do you think they handed the script to some writer and said “create a sequel 10 years after the last time you have seen these character” and the person, who is at the top of their field, didn’t think this was a horrible idea? Of course he/she did, and that is why they made the movie so bad. It was done without an effort of adding anything new, on purpose. The characters were lovable at first and now they are just tired and predicable, so why not try to make them so tired and predictable that it is actually entertaining. I’m not talking campy; I really think that the movie is a spoof of itself.
At least I hope that is what they did, because the idea of wasting millions of dollars on such a piece of trash, when there are so many better things to do with the money, is repulsive. |
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