The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)

Directed by

Dean Murphy

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Paul Hogan plays a fictional version of himself whose reputation is in trouble. He tries to fix things before he is knighted. Old friends and lost opportunities get tangled up in the process.

lightheartedcomicirreverentself-referentialplayfulgently satiricaleasygoing

What happens

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee is a 2020 Australian comedy film directed by Dean Murphy, written by Robert Mond and Dean Murphy, and starring Paul Hogan, Rachael Carpani, Jacob Elordi, Charlotte Stent, Nate Torrence, Chevy Chase, John Cleese, Olivia Newton-John, Reginald VelJohnson, Shane Jacobson, Wayne Knight and Kerry Armstrong. Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted. The title pays homage to Hogan's famous role of Crocodile Dundee. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on 17 July 2020, and was the final film Olivia Newton-John starred in before her death in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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