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“ | Pack your peashooter and some clean undies, son. We got some deadly creatures to hunt. | „ |
~ Chaz to his son before hunting Maddie and his friends. |
Charles Huntman, better known as Chaz Hunt, is the main antagonist of Netflix's 2021 animated film Back to the Outback.
He is an American-born Australian zoo owner and wannabe hunter who found Maddie and her friends and Chazzie's father. He was also Maddie's former archenemy-turned-friend.
He was voiced by Eric Bana, who also portrayed Nero in the 2009 reboot film Star Trek.
Personality[]
At the beginning of the story, he is shown to be a macho and arrogant character who likes to laugh in the face of danger and this became an inspiration for his son, but near the end of the movie, it is revealed that the tough hunter masculinity he had was actually a layer to hide the cowardice he had from danger.
Appearance[]
Chaz is a tall slim man with blue eyes, blond hair, and a mustache he wears a beige zoo uniform that resembles a hunter's outfit. In some moments in the movie, he wears a brown leather hat with bone details.
Biography[]
When Chaz was a kid, he was a very fearful and weak person, who grew up in his aunt's lingerie store in Tampa, Florida. This existed until he saw a documentary about the jungle and he was amazed by the presenter who seemed not to be afraid of anything, so as an adult, he started to imitate the way of the tv presenter of his childhood and changed his name to Chaz Hunt. He told several lies about his life and eventually started the Australian wildlife park. In Australia, he ended up finding a snake egg that immediately hatched into a young female, which he named Medusa (or Maddie as a nickname), and decided to keep her for his zoo. Sometime later, Chaz had a son, and not long afterward, his wife left him for a landscaper named Brent.
He let down his surrogate daughter Maddie when after building up her confidence for her first show, he started lamenting how horrifying she was to the crowd, crushing her self-esteem, and continued to force her and her friends to perform for a terrified crowd day in and day out. Later, Chazzie ended up falling into the saltwater crocodile enclosure and nearly drowned. Jackie the crocodile in the enclosure saved Chazzie, but Chaz thought she was trying to eat him and so took her away. Later that night, Maddie and the other animals ran away from the zoo, and initially he was going to call animal control, but after pressure from his son, he decided to go on his own to capture them. Chaz tried to capture the escaping animals in Sydney, but they escaped. He wanted to give up, but his son tracked the ice cream van they escaped on into the zoo.
Later, Chaz and Chazzie stopped a school bus with the animals inside, but they were snuck out by a girl named Norine after searching for a while he found them when he accidentally fell off a cliff. He accidentally caught them and prepared to tranquilize Maddie when her friend Pretty Boy had raised summoned a ravenous pack of Tasmanian devils. After being saved by his son, who pulled him up the cliff, he finally reveals to his son that everything he said was a lie, but Chaz decided to continue the hunt to reward all the lies he told and so he went to a biker bar and recruited everyone who frequented there to help him in his animal hunt.
Chaz, along with his henchmen managed to capture the escaped animals, except for Maddie, who briefly bonded with Chazzie when he realized that she was just as scared of him as he was of her. Chaz then grabbed Maddie and shoved her into her own cage. On the way to the zoo, Chazzie shoved Maddie's cage out, letting her go where she joined up with Pretty Boy. Soon, Maddie and Pretty Boy chase Chaz and Chazzie with a fire truck they stole to free their friends, but Chaz tried to stop Maddie using a bazooka he was going to give his son for his birthday before being attacked by an army of frilled lizards, funnel webbed spiders, and koalas.
As the biker gang was all killed by boulders thrown down by dung beetles, Chaz and his son escaped onto the top of the firetruck as their jeep was crushed by a boulder before the truck fell off the cliff. The gang survived by hanging on a ladder dangling off the cliff, but Chaz realized his son was about to fall. He told Maddie to not hurt his son, she bit onto the strap on his arm before tying herself to Pretty Boy. Chaz then pulled his son up saving him as the ladder collapsed. Chaz then hugged the animals realizing they weren't monsters and said goodbye to Maddie in the outback.
Trivia[]
- Chaz Hunt takes inspiration from the late wildlife presenter Steve Irwin.
- Tommy Lee Jones, Alec Baldwin, Burt Reynolds, James Woods, Kevin Spacey, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Walken, Patrick McGoohan, the late Dennis Hopper, Barry Bostwick, James Cromwell, Woody Harrelson, Albert Brooks, Willem Dafoe, Gregory Peck, John Lithgow, Martin Landau, Michael Keaton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Stewart, and Christopher McDonald were all considered for the role of Chaz Hunt before Eric Bana was cast.