You can sigh and groan as much as you want now, Danny McBride’s attempt at a Crocodile Dundee movie was a sham. Despite all the signs that might have pointed to it being real, fans of the movie should have known that something like this couldn’t be kept under wraps for all that long, and that it would have been a media sensation long before now. It’d still be fun to see McBride and Chris Hemsworth in a comedy together but let’s let the Crocodile theme die down a little bit first. It’s enough that they managed to get people all fired up, but to go this far out on the limb and take a lot of people with them is a letdown that a lot of folks might not take too lightly.
The entire thing was part of a very elaborate Tourism Australia ad campaign that’s being used to up the tourism in the land down under. We won’t get a chance to see how that went however until the Superbowl. Danny McBride has been making a lot of leaps and bounds as of late in his career and has had things going on for quite a while. Some people absolutely love the guy and think he’s one of the greatest actors out there. Personally I kind of had to get used to him for a while until I really found him funny. He’s hilarious in the right situation, but I tend to think that he’s a little overdone at times and not exactly in the right element for his brand of comedy.
The most recent Mountain Dew commercial he stars in is pretty humorous, and his other roles in various movies have been great, but like I’ve already said he’s a guy you really have to get used to. He was great in Tropic Thunder and I didn’t mind seeing him in Aliens: Covenant despite that being such a messed up movie. He can play a role just as good as anyone, but I don’t know if seeing him in a Crocodile Dundee movie would have been the best place really. Maybe if he was the quirky sidekick or someone close to the son of the star of the movie, but not quite if he was the lead character. At this point I like the guy and think he’s a great actor, but taking the lead doesn’t seem to be his forte really.
He’s like the sidekick with the big mouth that you want to pull through in whatever movie he’s in. He’s been the lead before but it didn’t really go that well if you can remember Your Highness. The movie was supposed to be something funny and that was about it. Danny McBride in a Crocodile Dundee movie would need to be the one person that either is fully with the lead character and backs him up entirely, or the weird guy they go to when they have a problem they need to solve.
At least as of now we know that there’s no Crocodile Dundee remake on the horizon.
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