This has one of the greatest endings in comedy - not just Australian comedy but comedy full stop, with the girl chasing after Mick and declaring her love and Mick climbing over the people to get to her with a wonderful Pete Best score. It's a fantastic ending.
The film itself ambles along - very light on plot. It's a collection of scenes really rather than a proper story. But Hogan is perfect in the role, the support cast very good (Linda Koslowski matches him well).
Some of it isn't very politically correct but I laughed at John Meillion, and David Gulpilil, and it has a wonderful sense of family and community with Dundee making friends with everyone. Paul Hogan and John Cornell were super smart businessmen but this film has genuine heart and an infectious good nature. No wonder they thought they had the magic touch because they did - but it soon faded.
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