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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001 Film)

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A bit more than salt and pepper is needed to spice up this soundtrack. Just like the film - a flop!

Leave it to director Simon Wincer and our hero, actor Paul Hogan to come up with another "Crocodile Dundee"...this time in Los Angeles...the only good thing about this luke-warm-film is the score...the nod was given to Basil Poledouris...gave us ~ "Conan The Barbarian"(1982)..."Quigley Down Under"(1999)..."Hunt For Red October"(1999)..."Starship Troopers"(1997) and "For The Love Of The Game"(1999).

Poledouris does a bang-up-job with the material he has to work with...the stand outs ~ "CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES-MAIN TITLE" and "MOTOTOV COCKTAIL/LIONS", shades of Henry Mancini's "Hatari" score comes to mind...counterpoints, measures and orchestration is typical Mancini...not bad company to be in.

The last four tracks entitled "The Songs"...is a waste...feel it degrades the entire CD...pity, our esteem composer is on a higher plain...for what it's worth...Poledouris is one of the upcoming composers to fill the void...looking forward to his next project!

Total Time: 45:07 on 16 Tracks ~ Silva America SSD-1130 ~ (2001)

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is a good score from the best composer ever, Basil Poledouris. His music will live forever!!!

Why on earth did Basil Poledouris do the score to Crocodile Dundee III? I'm not ashamed to admit that I liked the movie, it was cool for some light and distracting entertainment but the score never needed to be a strong point. So why bring in a composer with such clout like Poledouris? It's like getting Marilyn Manson to score Stuart Little 3. Basil Poledouris creates awesome, huge, thunderous scores for movies like Robocop, Conan, Under Siege 2 and Starship Troopers.

The score itself is actually very slight, clocking in at about half an hour. There are some okay tracks in there though; the acoustic guitar strummings are especially easy-going. But the rest is unthematic and uninteresting.

Oh, and the songs tacked onto the end are awful and only there to market the CD to a possible wider audience. They really ruin the CD and serve only to beef up the running time. Who cares when any serious score collector wouldn't even consider them? If you're a Poledouris completist then it's worth picking this up cheap. If not, leave it alone.