Hogan's Heroes: Star Image in Dean Murphy's 'The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee'

Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan embodies a loosely fictionalised version of himself in Dean Murphy's Los Angeles–set farce, with the actor's declining cultural relevance and disconnection from the modern world played for often-slapstick laughs. As Jake Wilson contends, however, the film's portrayal of this icon of Australian nonchalance is ultimately paradoxical, straining credibility while failing to make up for it with either satirical bite or surreal excess.

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