the Paul Hogan comedy makes a series of bizarre and problematic choices that don't add up to much; this scenario is rapidly crushed thanks to a script co-written by Dean Murphy that robotically repeats an increasingly predictable pattern
some of this is funny, but when the success of the movie depends on satirical take-down rather than the pleasure of well-timed gags, that movie is in trouble; Paul Hogan plays himself rather badly here, more self-aware than self-confident
some jokes feel like witnessing a slo-mo train crash but the humour at least has awareness; the film's achievements, given that a lot of it comes across as weird, self-pitying flapdoodle
by Paul Byrnes [Sidney Morning Herald ]
