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Thursday, May 20, 2021
CROCK O'DULL DUMMEE, TOO
CROCODILE DUNDEE II (1988)
dir: John Cornell
MAD #283, December 1988
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) and Sue (Linda Kozlowski) have settled down in New York in this movie and Mick has decided it's time to look for a job. He gets one with his friend Leroy (Charles Dutton) delivering stationery. At one drop-off, he looks out and sees someone about to jump off a ledge, comes out and talks to him, walking as if he's just passing by.
Sue has an ex-husband (Dennis Boutsikaris) we didn't know about in the first movie. He's a photojournalist in Colombia who's happened upon some druglords and takes pictures of them before he's found out. He knows he'll be shot so he sends them to Sue. The druglords, headed by Rico (Hechter Ubarry), know he did that and come to New York and kidnap her, demanding to get the photos. She hadn't even been home to get them yet. Mick comes home to find the place trashed and gets a phone call from them telling him he'll see Sue alive if he goes to the subway station with the package. When he gets there, one of Rico's heavies is there pointing a gun at him.
Some Asian tourists come off the train and Mick foils the minion by putting a wastebasket on his head (The subway station has mesh wastebaskets) and they think Mick is Clint Eastwood.
A hitman comes to kill Mick. Mick still doesn't have Sue back, and he gets a plan to recruit a gang (or what the makers of the movie think a gang looks like) to storm the druglords' mansion, with the aid of Leroy.
He rescues her, and the authorities later seek his aid in nabbing the druglords. Then that plotline is somehow forgotten and Mick and Sue go to his land in Australia, as if she didn't know about his lifestyle in the first movie.
The druglords chase him there. He reunites with Walter (John Meillon), his guide, and his old friends first. They set a bunch of traps and distractions to capture Rico and his gang. I guess they go back home and turn him in. They don't make that quite clear. MAD added this ending of Sue asking Mick to marry her, which wasn't in the movie.
In case you were wondering what the introduction was talking about, this was Jacko. Yeah, he was annoying.
Cracked did their version too:
CRACKEDILE DANDEE, TOO!
Cracked #241, December 1988
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Gray Morrow
Here Rico is caricatured as Edward G. Robinson
I guess he was meant to say something in the top right.
OK, here's a weird one. In the Mad parody, page 4, panel 3, the guy on the left is Bruce Dern. Specifically, it's Jack Davis' caricature of Bruce Dern from Mad's parody of The Cowboys. (It doesn't look much like how Drucker himself had drawn Dern for Mad before.)
Odder still, he's wearing a T-shirt that says 'MAD No. 279', which was several issues before this one.
OK, here's a weird one. In the Mad parody, page 4, panel 3, the guy on the left is Bruce Dern. Specifically, it's Jack Davis' caricature of Bruce Dern from Mad's parody of The Cowboys. (It doesn't look much like how Drucker himself had drawn Dern for Mad before.)
ReplyDeleteOdder still, he's wearing a T-shirt that says 'MAD No. 279', which was several issues before this one.