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Date: 2001-12-07 08:25:39

Comment:

Steve Irwin is a senstationalist. He makes out everything is far more dangerous and he makes out he is always really close to danger. The truth is he sedates a lot of the crocks before wrestling them. And "downunder" we all think he is a "crock of sh*t" as in "full of it". So I'm sure the movie just like the TV show will make him out to be some extroadinary hero with a huge amount of poetic license for a US audience that doesn't really know any better. He's riding on the Croc Dundee fame making it out like he is the real thing. I'm an Aussie now living in the US and I cringe everytime I meet someone new whose first response to finding out where I'm from (after being corrected that I'm not from England) is "wow, how about that Croc Hunter guy, he's great...". The truth is there were plenty of Australian nature documentary TV series done by much more legitimate people in the 80's and early 90's, and these were 10 times more educational and interesting to watch. Malcolm Douglas was my favorite, and if its laughs you want you should have seen the Leyland brothers, it was like dumb and dumber in the outback "Where are we Mike?" "Buggered if I know Mal"