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Snakes 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 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 animal 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 for, and Steve's familiarity with the snakes and how they are likely to react is all he had to go by. The crocodiles he wrestles are all captives from his wildlife park, and maybe the snakes are also, but they're still wild, unpredictable, and dangerous, and it's a wonder he didn't get bitten by the snakes as they struck at him a few times. He also chases a large monitor lizard which you can see here. In the first snake scene, we see a snake that Steve Irwin tells us is a Fierce Snake (aka Inland Taipan). As he always does, he shouts statistics to the camera to educate us as he handles the snake, picking it up by the tail and pretending to be surprised when the snake doesn't like it, with his typical dramatic theatrics that made him so entertaining in his TV show. He tells us it's the most venomous snake in the world, with enough venom in one bite to kill 100 blokes his size. He also tells us that he'd rather deal with the snake than with people, who are more dangerous. Ultimately, he dangles the snake from the top of his head with the snake's head much too close to his face for my comfort. He always tells the viewer to respect the animals and never handle them the way he's handling them, putting himself in needless danger just to entertain us. It's a mixed message that can be worrisome, but is always entertaining. In the second snake scene Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin are driving their large crocodile-hunting truck in the outback when they stop for a large snake on the road. Steve yells that it's a deadly King Brown Snake (aka Mulga Snake) and yells out some statistics about it. Then he and Terri put the snake in a bag attached to a long pole and wrap it up and put the bag in the truck. (That's how they bag snakes down under. When I was photographing reptiles in the outback, our fearless leader caught and put a large mulga snake in a similar poled bag then put it in the back of the ute with our food and luggage. I shivered every time I went to grab a cold drink, knowing the snake was sitting there, but fortunately the snake never got out before it was released.) At this point in the movie, two C.I.A. agents are chasing Steve and Terri without them knowing. The agents are tracking a metal device that fell to earth from a satellite and was swallowed by the crocodile that they caught and are driving to another area to release it where it won't bother humans. The agents don't know that the device is inside a crocodile, so they think that Steve and Terri have knowingly taken the device. Steve and Terri think that the people chasing them are poachers who want the crocodile to turn it into boots, bags, and belts. One of the agents jumps on the truck, but Steve knocks him off. The man grabs onto a rope and is dragged from the back of the moving truck. When he refuses to let go of the rope, Steve takes the snake out of the bag, holds it by the tail, and dangles it off the truck with the snake's head in front of the man's face, and that finally convinces the agent to let go of the rope.