# Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
**Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles** is a 2001 comedy film and the third installment of the [Crocodile Dundee](https://www.edgepedia.org/crocodile-dundee) series, directed by Simon Wincer and starring [Paul Hogan](https://www.edgepedia.org/paul-hogan) as Mick "Crocodile" Dundee and [Linda Kozlowski](https://www.edgepedia.org/linda-kozlowski) as Sue Charlton. In it, the Outback adventurer moves with his family to Los Angeles, where his partner's investigation of a film studio draws him into sleuthing.[1](https://www.paramount.com/movies/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles) It was produced by Bangalow Films and Silver Lion Films and distributed by Paramount Pictures, opening in the United States on April 20, 2001.[2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61982-CROCODILE-DUNDEE-IN-LOS-ANGELES)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | Wide US release April 20, 2001 by Paramount Pictures; DVD September 18, 2001[3](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles) |
| Rating and runtime | PG (some brief language and brief violence); 95 minutes per Paramount and the AFI Catalog[1](https://www.paramount.com/movies/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles) • [2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61982-CROCODILE-DUNDEE-IN-LOS-ANGELES) |
| Principal cast | Paul Hogan (Mick Dundee), Linda Kozlowski (Sue Charleton), Serge Cockburn (Mikey), Jere Burns (Arnan Rothman), Jonathan Banks (Milos Drubnik), Aida Turturro (Jean Ferraro)[1](https://www.paramount.com/movies/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles) |
| Box office | $7,714,362 opening weekend in 2,123 theaters; $25,590,119 domestic; $39,393,111 worldwide against a $25,000,000 production budget[3](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles) |
| Critical reception | 11% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (84 reviews) and 25% on the Popcornmeter; Metascore 37 on Metacritic from 23 critic reviews[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crocodile_dundee_in_los_angeles) • [5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/) |
| Franchise standing | Third of three Crocodile Dundee films, after *Crocodile Dundee* (1986) and *Crocodile Dundee II* (1988)[6](https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Crocodile-Dundee) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Mick Dundee now lives in Walkabout Creek with Sue and their young son Mikey. When Sue's newspaper-tycoon father asks her to take over the management of his Los Angeles bureau, the family moves to California.[7](https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-3120/) There Sue investigates Silvergate Pictures, a studio that specializes in making movies that lose money, and suspects foul play.[1](https://www.paramount.com/movies/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles) • [7](https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-3120/) Mick goes undercover as an animal wrangler on a Silvergate production, where he helps a chimp follow movie directions and uncovers clues to the studio's wrongdoing.[7](https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-3120/) According to a plot summary in the Internet Movie Plane Database, the studio is fronting a scheme to smuggle priceless European artwork, and Mick takes a job as an extra to ferret out the smugglers.[8](https://www.impdb.org/index.php/Crocodile_Dundee_in_Los_Angeles)
## Production
**Casting and writing.** The screenplay is credited to Matthew Berry and Eric Abrams, with the story based on characters created by Paul Hogan, who also produced with Lance Hool.[2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61982-CROCODILE-DUNDEE-IN-LOS-ANGELES) Hogan had repeatedly said there would be no further installment, but production notes quote him saying that if he woke up with a really good idea he might return, and that Los Angeles was the right setting because Dundee's grounded character contrasts with the city's unreality.[9](https://www.cinema.com/articles/559/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-production-notes.phtml) To cast the ten-year-old Mikey, director Simon Wincer held an open call after newspaper announcements; 5,500 boys showed up across Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and Serge Cockburn, whose parents had sent in a tape, got the part.[9](https://www.cinema.com/articles/559/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-production-notes.phtml)
**Filming.** [Principal photography](https://www.edgepedia.org/principal-photography) began on Australia's Gold Coast before moving to Los Angeles for the remainder of the shoot.[9](https://www.cinema.com/articles/559/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-production-notes.phtml) Los Angeles locations included [Hollywood Boulevard](https://www.edgepedia.org/hollywood-boulevard), Century City, the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and the Venice beachfront; the production also closed a stretch of the Glendale freeway for a scene in which Mick and Mikey stop traffic thinking they are saving a dog.[9](https://www.cinema.com/articles/559/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-production-notes.phtml) David Burr and David Eggby served as cinematographers, Terry Blythe as editor, and [Basil Poledouris](https://www.edgepedia.org/basil-poledouris) composed the score.[2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61982-CROCODILE-DUNDEE-IN-LOS-ANGELES) Burr won a Gold award from the Australian Cinematographers Society (NSW) for his work on the film.[7](https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-3120/) Animal actors were monitored under American Humane Society's No Animals Were Harmed program; the production report notes, among other details, that the crocodile at a wedding scene was animatronic.[10](https://www.americanhumane.org/production/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/)
## Box office
The film opened fourth for the weekend of April 20–22, 2001, grossing $7,714,362 from 2,123 theaters, about 30.1 percent of its eventual domestic total.[3](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles) It finished with $25,590,119 domestically and $13,802,992 internationally, for a worldwide total of $39,393,111, about 1.6 times its $25,000,000 production budget.[3](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles) [Box Office Mojo](https://www.edgepedia.org/box-office-mojo) lists the lifetime domestic gross slightly higher, at $25,635,682.[11](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchise/fr3024588549/?sort=releaseDate) IMDb gives an estimated budget of $21,150,000 and a worldwide gross of $39,438,674.[12](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231402/)
The drop from its predecessors was steep. The 1986 original grossed $328,203,181 worldwide and the 1988 sequel $239,606,210, against the third film's $39.4 million.[6](https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Crocodile-Dundee) In Australia, 2001 saw a record $63.5 million earned by local films, a group that included *Moulin Rouge*, *Lantana*, *The Man Who Sued God*, and *Crocodile Dundee in LA*, though that total represented only 8 percent of the national box office that year.[13](https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/41671/7/02Whole.pdf) In Spain, where the film opened on September 6, 2001, it sold 166,983 admissions and grossed €656,463.42.[14](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=84001)
## Reception
Critical response was largely negative. Rotten Tomatoes records an 11% Tomatometer from 84 reviews and a 25% audience Popcornmeter from more than 100,000 ratings, with a critics consensus calling it "a sequel as unnecessary as it is belated" that "lacks virtually all of the easygoing humor and charm that delighted fans of the original."[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crocodile_dundee_in_los_angeles) Metacritic assigned a Metascore of 37, labeled generally unfavorable, from 23 critic reviews (3 positive, 12 mixed, 8 negative), with a user score of 4.6 from 21 ratings.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/)
Reviewers split over the film's mildness. Roger Ebert, the [Chicago Sun-Times](https://www.edgepedia.org/chicago-sun-times) critic who won the [Pulitzer Prize](https://www.edgepedia.org/pulitzer-prize) for criticism in 1975, gave it two stars, writing that it is "at least genial family entertainment" and asking, "who would you rather your kids took as a role model: Crocodile Dundee, David Spade or Tom Green?"[15](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-2001) The San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Graham scored it 75, finding that "the no-sweat clunkiness of the detective plot becomes kind of charming," while A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that "nostalgia and comedy are run through a food processor until they become a flavorless paste."[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/)
## Home media and streaming
Paramount Home Video released the film on DVD on September 18, 2001.[3](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles) As of the most recent availability checks, United States viewers can stream it free with ads on Hoopla and YouTube Free, rent it for $3.99 on services including Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Google TV, and Plex, or buy it digitally starting at $4.99 on Prime Video.[16](https://www.moviefone.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/9500/where-to-watch/)
## References
1. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Paramount Pictures](https://www.paramount.com/movies/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles)
2. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61982-CROCODILE-DUNDEE-IN-LOS-ANGELES)
3. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), The Numbers](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Crocodile-Dundee-in-Los-Angeles)
4. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crocodile_dundee_in_los_angeles)
5. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/)
6. [Box Office History for Crocodile Dundee Movies, The Numbers](https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Crocodile-Dundee)
7. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Screen Australia](https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-3120/)
8. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, The Internet Movie Plane Database](https://www.impdb.org/index.php/Crocodile_Dundee_in_Los_Angeles)
9. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles: Production Notes, Cinema.com](https://www.cinema.com/articles/559/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-production-notes.phtml)
10. [Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles, American Humane Society](https://www.americanhumane.org/production/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/)
11. [Franchise: Crocodile Dundee, Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchise/fr3024588549/?sort=releaseDate)
12. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231402/)
13. [What characterises the Australian film industry and film making culture in the period 1989–2005, UTS ePress](https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/41671/7/02Whole.pdf)
14. [Cocodrilo Dundee en Los Angeles, ICAA Film Database](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=84001)
15. [Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles movie review, RogerEbert.com](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles-2001)
16. [Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) – Where to Watch, Moviefone](https://www.moviefone.com/movie/crocodile-dundee-in-los-angeles/9500/where-to-watch/)
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