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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The Gods Must Be Crazy is a fun film for all, lighthearted and has a wonderful premise.I am little surprised that this is rated higher than the second film, which I feel is more of a complete film from start to finish, but I can certainly agree that the premise here is unrivaled. Someone dropping a coke bottle from the sky, making tasks easier but causing conflict among the bush people which they have never experienced and looking to rid the cause from the earth. The opening monologue about the civilized world is also so on point. I didn't care for any of the terrorist/military stuff and there is quite a bit of it, so that hurt, but I liked all the main characters. Unlike the second film, some of the comedy is a bit over the top and repetitive, with the jeep and being clumsy. The main highlights for me are all at the start with Xi and his people, though I really love Andrew & Mpudi's interaction throughout.Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again. And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...

I remembered renting this movie from our local video store with my mom when I was a little kid and when I first watched it with my parents, I laughed so hard I've found myself rolling on the ground, prompting my mom to tell me to contain myself.In this South African film, things start off interesting when an African bushman named Xi (N!xau) in the Kalahari desert discovers a discarded Coke bottle, which fell from the sky, thinking it was from the Gods. It was interesting to see how these primitive people utilize their new modern find as Xi takes it back to his village, where they use it for many tasks. The intrigue starts when the villagers begin fighting over it, prompting Xi to set off on a journey with the bottle to find an appropriate place to dispose of it. Along the way, he bumps into traveling school teacher Kate Thompson (Sandra Prinsloo) and bumbling biologist Marius Weyers (Andrew Steyn), and stumbles upon a plot by a despotic revolutionary.The three leading actors gave off a lot of physical comedy, from Xi's surprised and confused expressions as he spots and try to learn how to utilize new modern things like driving a car, to the awkward chemistry between Kate Thompson and Marius Weyers. Them getting themselves entangled in the revolutionary plot became a good guy vs. bad guy subplot and provided a lot of exciting adventure and action that will sure captivate an audience.Jamie Uys did a great job in writing and directing this movie. He carefully assimilated the primitive village with the modern world, and what resulted is non-stop fun, laughter and entertainment.Grade A

Imagine a movie in the 80's depicting Africans as primitive people without being racist or disrespectful. That alone was a huge challenge in those sensitive times and this movie did it. It is a mockery of civilization along with a silly "G" rated love story/comedy-basically two plots in one movie loosely tied together. I first "heard" this movie when I somehow got a TV signal on my radio. I was in Army barracks and I liked nature shows so I listened without visual for a while at this odd narrative coming through the speakers. For a while I thought it *was* a nature show but I had never heard one so silly. Later I found out how unpopular it was with critics and "cool" people so after buying it I put it in the closet with my old Carpenters album and Dr. Demento video cassette only to be taken out when I was alone and wanted a little guilty pleasure from something I truly enjoyed after sitting through numerous fart jokes and other stuff that strained a laugh.

The movie showcases the innocence of a Bushman in a selfish (modern world) add slapstick to it, both elements of comedy are done in a innocent way. One of the best foreign comedy movie I have seen. The stories have a beautiful connection among them. I particularly enjoyed the part of Bushman tribe and kept thinking how the director managed to shoot them while maintaining their natural essence. The second element I loved was the slapstick comedy, I cannot remember last time I saw slapstick done in such a funny way. There were parts when I burst into laughter.The dialogues really added a flavor to the movie, even though they were dubbed, except a few. And finally the characters. The Bushman might take the limelight but for me the scientist was the funniest of them all. Enjoy this apparently simply but extremely well thought out comedy.