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How this script ever secured funding from Screen Australia and Film Victoria is perhaps the most mysterious aspect to this almost unbearable team-up between "KENNY" (Jacobson) and "CROCODILE DUNDEE" (Hogan). No doubt writer-director Murphy was hoping to repeat the box-office success of the last Hogan team-up (with Michael Caton) in STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, which was the highest-grossing Australian film of 2004 (despite its disappointing script). Never mind the complete lack of chemistry between the leads – this one's irredeemable. Clearly billed as a comedy, C&B is almost never funny, and the few watchable scenes are dramatic. The one genuinely funny moment (meaning: the one joke that doesn't rely on some degree of derogation, particularly of women) is pasted in after the credits. The film itself resembles a tourism brochure, as we're taken through inland Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland via the Giant Koala (near Horsham), Tenterfield and Tamworth, meeting country singing prodigy Jess (watch for 17-year-old Griffin, who seems set for a big career) and some familiar faces (Phelan from THE HARP IN THE SOUTH and POOR MAN'S ORANGE; Smith from A COUNTRY PRACTICE; crowd favourite Billing; and the late Reg Evans, who was among the 173 who died during the Victorian bushfires in February 2009, to whom the film is dedicated). The film fails to generate a consistent narrative, and seems targeted appallingly narrowly, at the same deeply-conservative anglo-Australian communities amongst which Charlie and Boots spend their time. The total absence of any non-anglo character is so glaring it must have been intended.
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