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Lizards 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. You can see the crocodile scenes on this page. 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. At the beginning of the movie, in what I think is a comic sequence (it made me laugh) we see Irwin chasing a monitor lizard, a "goanna" as the Australians call them. It's a Perentie, one of the largest lizards on earth, but it's not a very large one. Again and again we see Irwin dive after the lizard but fail to catch it. Even though he didn't catch it, the camera person or people did a good job of catching it as it tried to get away.