🐊🎩 The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee — A Gentle, Honest Look at Aging, Relevance, and the Man Behind the Legend
When I was a kid, I didn’t know Paul Hogan as a movie star. I knew him from The Paul Hogan Show , rebroadcast on my local public broadcasting station — the kind of place where a young coconut like me could stumble into Aussie humor without even knowing what “Aussie humor” was. Most of the jokes flew right over my head. But the energy stuck. The mischief. The charm. The sense that Hogan was a working man who somehow wandered onto a TV set and made everyone laugh anyway. Then came Crocodile Dundee , and the world went wild. America fell in love with Australia overnight. But by the time that wave hit, I was already drifting into my teenage cynicism — that dark, brooding phase where nothing impresses you and everything feels like it’s trying too hard. So Hogan’s big Hollywood moment passed me by. Funny how life works. 🎬 Now Here Comes Hogan Again — Older, Wiser, and Wondering Where He Fits The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee isn’t a comeback movie. It’s not a victory lap. It’...
