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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies   The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)   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 is an action-adventure-comedy starring Steve Irwin, best known as the star of The Crocodile Hunter, a television series that aired from 1996 to 2004, with the goal of educating and viewers about wildlife, mostly Australian wildlife, especially crocodiles, as well as entertaining them with Steve Irwin's insane animal handling. His specialty was catching and relocating crocodiles, and that's what he mostly does in this movie. If you've ever watched his TV show and wondered what it would be like if there was story featuring international secret agents inserted into the show, that's basically what we get here. Or maybe the show is inserted into the story. Either way, Irwin acts as if he's doing the TV show, narrating everything that happens to him in the movie, shouting at the camera as he does in his show, and he's the main reason for the movie, not the story. It's a comedy, so he makes a lot of funny faces and shouts his trademark "crikey" and other silly things such as "croc poo." In one scene we see the naive American agents saying there's nothing dangerous in Australia, then there's a quick cut to Irwin talking about the Fierce Snake, the most deadly venomous snake in the world. This contrast device is used a few times in the movie. The most amazing thing about the movie is that the animals are all real, and they are all really handled or wrestled by Steve Irwin with Terri's help. In most fictional movies we see stunt doubles, or actors with fake rubber crocodiles or snakes, or worse, CGI animals, but not here. In the average movie they can't put deadly animals in a scene with actors for fear of their safety, but since this is Irwin's movie, and he's a professional crocodile wrangler, he can literally put himself in danger for the movie, and he does. It's what he always did in his TV show, and it's just as impressive here. Some of the shots have you wondering how exactly they could have planned them, but I suspect a lot of the crocodile reactions were not planned. The crocodiles he wrestles are all captives from his wildlife park, but they're still wild, unpredictable, and dangerous, and it's a wonder he didn't shed any blood or lose any limbs in the scenes. The story is about a metal device that falls to earth from a satellite and is eaten by a crocodile. The crocodile is in a river that runs through the land of a funny farmer who has been trying to kill it with a shotgun because it has been eating her cows. Her neighbors are complaining, so the local wildlife officer calls the Irwins to come and catch and relocate the croc to a safer location. Meanwhile, two American CIA agents fly to Australia to find the metal device. They can track where it is located on a handheld device. They have no idea that it's in the belly of a crocodile. They meet up with an Australian agent to help them in the field who takes them to the woman's farm where the crocodile was tracked, but Steve and Terri have already caught it and are hauling it away. The agents think Steve and Terri are spies trying to steal the information in the device, and Steve and Terri think the agents are poachers who are trying to catch their crocodile to kill it and make it into boots, bags, and belts, and this leads to some comic chases along with some exciting crocodile wrestling action and some more fun interactions with other Australian wildlife, including venomous snakes, a baby kangaroo, and an enormous bird-eating spider. You can see the snake scenes on this page. He also chases a large monitor lizard which you can see on this page.