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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe mad genius of this cheerily bonkers feature is the integration of a documentary-style safari into an outlandish fiction involving a fancy-pants CIA pursuit of a downed spy satellite, and a shotgun-wielding outback widow.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonWhen I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
- 80Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonLos Angeles TimesJohn AndersonSo refreshing and funny and, in its way, sophisticated.
- 70The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensA curiously thrilling and often hilarious experience.
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThankfully, the film, which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality -- Irwin as "himself" as croc expert as suspected international spy -- takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the Croc Hunter agenda: Mother Nature? Don’t muck with her.
- 63Boston GlobeBoston GlobeThe downtimes are so flat that it makes you wonder whether director John Stainton and writer Holly Goldberg Sloan made them intentionally bad, just so we'd look forward to seeing Irwin again.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardIt is not a great ad-vain-cha, and it's a lousy movie. But it underscores Irwin's kitschy popularity as a sideshow entertainer on the Animal Planet channel, where he cheerfully wrestles or rescues all manner of Aussie wildlife while telling the camera what great danger he is in.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe film's wittiest moment comes before it starts: the familiar MGM lion is replaced by a roaring crocodile when the studio's logo appears.
- 50USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkThough Walt Disney's Peter Pan once implored us never to smile at a crocodile, the Irwins' own home movie is worth a couple of chuckles. Shivers, too.
- 30Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAustin ChronicleSteve DavisNothing more than an extended version of the syndicated television program, with the unkempt Irwin spending most of the movie excitedly shouting at the camera as he taunts something venomous.