pacing and a script (by Hogan and longtime tv colleague Ken Shadie) that has its flat, dull spots. Hogan is comfortable enough playing the wry, irreverent, amiable Aussie that seems close to his own persona, and teams well with Kozlowksi, who radiates lots of charm, style and spunk". Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote: "Handsomely directed by Peter Faiman, the film punches most of the right buttons at most of the right times and emerges as an effective crowd-pleaser". Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post said that the film "has a double 'fish out of water' structure—first she's the fish, then he's the fish—but the movie doesn't go anywhere with it, mostly because the characters are such nullities ... There's no drama in 'Crocodile Dundee' because there's no real conflict between these characters". Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is nothing you can examine deeply or mull over afterward. It's simply an expert crowd-pleaser. It has such a sure, easy, confident touch that it's almost failure-proof—like a tip of the hat, a sip of beer, a quick, golden 'G'day'". Monthly Film Bulletin called it "as dull and lumbering as its hero". Although Crocodile Dundee was a hit both in Australia and abroad, it became controversial with some Australian critics and audiences who resented the image of Australians as being ocker. Robert Hughes complained in 2000 that to Americans "Crocodile Dundee is a work of social realism", giving them a Wild West' fantasy" about Australia. David Droga said in 2018, however, that "there has been no better ad for Australia than that movie". The film became the first in the Crocodile Dundee series, with two sequels and a Super Bowl commercial. Later reviews In 2018, The Guardian said any reboot of the film that aimed to embrace the tone of the original would need to be "vulgar and witless, the new film would need to be sexist, racist, homophobic and transphobic. It would need to have awkward jokes unfunny at the time of release and even less amusing when revisited years later". The article goes on to identify moments of sexual assault in the film played for comedy. Medium published a retrospective review in 2021 saying, "35 years later, the film is nothing but an offensive embarrassment" and "wildly offensive on practically every front" with an