Amazon.com video review:
This 1986 comedy out of Australia is so old-fashioned in its
romantic charm that one can't help but wonder what it would have
looked like with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in the leads. On the
other hand, it's hard to imagine anyone besides Paul Hogan as the
title character, a laid-back Aussie tracker who shows an American
reporter (Linda Kozlowski) around bush country, then accompanies her
to New York City. Sure, Hollywood has done the fish-out-of-water
scenario to death in the last 20 years, and while this film has
sufficient sport with the gimmick, it is largely driven by the
principal characters and their developing love affair. Hogan cowrote
the script and director Peter Faiman evokes the goofy, enchanted air
of screwball comedies. The climactic scene, set in a subway station
with scores of bystanders witnessing a conversation about relationship
commitment, feels like vintage Capra. --Tom Keogh
