The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
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| The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | |
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| Directed by | John Stainton |
| Produced by | Judy Bailey Arnold Rifkin John Stainton |
| Written by | Derek Drymon |
| Starring | Steve Irwin Terri Irwin Neil Fanning Magda Szubanski David Wenham Lachy Hulme Aden Young Kenneth Ransom Kate Beahan Steve Bastoni Steven Vidler Alyson Standen Alex Ruiz David Franklin Robert Coleby Kevin Hides Christopher Morris Todd Levi Timothy Bottoms |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | July 12, 2002 |
| Running time | 90 min |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,500,000[1] |
| Gross revenue | $33,436,931[2] |
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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a 2002 Australian comedy-adventure film based on the nature documentary series The Crocodile Hunter, starring Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. The Irwins play themselves filming an episode of The Crocodile Hunter while trying to protect a crocodile. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo has a crocodile in place of the usual Leo the Lion.
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[edit] Plot
The film revolves around a satellite beacon swallowed by a crocodile and how two FBI agents collide with the famous Steve Irwin and how the FBI duo and the Hunter both race each other to find the crocodile.
[edit] Reviews
The film received mixed reviews, with a score of 53% freshness from review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave a positive review, stating "You see a couple of likable people journeying though the outback, encountering dangerous critters and getting too close for comfort, while lecturing us on their habits and dangers and almost being killed by them." while Robert K. Elder of the Chicago Tribune said "Irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free."
[edit] Box office
The film made over $28.4 million at the American box office, with a worldwide gross of over $33 million.
[edit] Film Aspect Ratios
Collision Course is relatively unique among feature films in that it was shot in two film aspect ratios, 1.85:1 for the scenes with Steve and Terri and 2.35:1 for the plot about the Australian farmer and the CIA and their efforts to find the tracking drone. In theaters and on DVD, the 1.85:1 image appears with pillar boxing, a format usually reserved for 1.33:1 ratio content appearing within 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 frames.
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[edit] External links
- The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course at the Internet Movie Database
- The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course at Box Office Mojo
- IMDB's newsgroup reviews
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