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Lizards in Movies   Crocodile Dundee II (1988)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This action-comedy is a sequel to Crocodile Dundee (1986) that takes place 6 months later. It's hard to make a movie about murdering drug dealers funny, but it tries. The first movie took place in Australia then New York City. This one reverses the locations beginning with Australian country bumpkin Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) living in Manhattan wearing a snakeskin jacket and a giant tooth-covered hat that makes Japanese tourists mistake him for Clint Eastwood. There are two snake scenes, one in New York and one in the Australian outback. There is also a scene with a large lizard, and two scenes with fake crocodile attacks. For a movie called "Crocodile" Dundee it's disappointing that we don't see any real ones other than a brief library shot of a croc sliding into the water. Still in New York, Dundee and Sue are kidnapped by a Colombian drug lord's thugs. Dundee rescues her and takes her to Australia where he thinks the Colombians can't find them. But the Colombians fly to Australia where they team up with some Aussie bad guys to hunt Mick and Sue. They are unarmed so when the bad guys come Dundee devises several schemes using the native wildlife to spook them and then pick off the gangsters one by one. He sneaks into their camp one night with a snake in a bag and throws it at the sleeping sentry. The bad guy is terrified until his comrade tells him it's just a harmless python.         The next morning, one of the bad guys is trying to wake his comrade Jose. When he removes his blanket he sees a large monitor lizard (goanna) wearing Jose's red bandana in Jose's place. The men have already been spooked by stories that Dundee was raised by Aborigines and has learned to use their black magic, and this incident seems to prove it true. The man who found the lizard then yells at it to leave. I'm surprised he didn't shoot it since he has been very trigger happy.