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Wonderful character development!

Sick Product of a Sick System

Better Late Then Never

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

"That's a good choice. You won't stop laughing. You'll laugh so your stomach will ache" said the officer when he saw 'Mr Bones' DVD in my hands. And I had no reason to think opposite.DVD starts advertising new Schuster candid camera work. Well, for a trailer you can't put long jokes, so that's probably why these new pieces looked so pale and superficial, I told myself, still waiting for movie to start. Yankee Zulu was not a masterpiece, but had its charms, and some really great scenes. And Mr Bones was supposed to be much better.However, you must be careful who will you trust. For someone who grew up with Austin Powers, matured with Porky's and American Pie and finds Scary Movie to be the ultimate comedy, Mr Bones can be a top pleasure to watch. But the rest of us have problems to understand what took Schuster eight years to finish the script. If he had completed it in first year of work, it would probably be much better, because bowel humor was not so popular then, and I guess we would be free of few tons of feces missiles precisely targeting actors' faces.It is even more pity because the story isn't bad at all. Original - no, but comedy doesn't always ask for a brand new story; sometimes best scenes can be funny just because of similarity to something that everyone knows. Schuster also didn't fall into usual trap to focus too much on confrontation of two worlds. These movies were popular in 80's (Starman, Crocodile Dundee, E.T., Coming to America) and, as usual, too many copies make jokes repeat. Mr Bones contains few minutes of understandable misunderstandings, enough to stay unobtrusive (though one of them again concentrates on of body excretions, when he looks for toilette). And there is more logic in developing the plot than in many other modern movies, including Schuster's own ones.Dialogues have never been Schuster's best side. In candid camera you can't plan them, so he sometimes neglects them in movies, too. The number of characters is rather big but each of them has personality (one more step forward for Schuster). And, unlike Schuster (co)author, Schuster actor was equal to his best roles. Music is used a lot, and it seems to be one of Hollywood influences (but this one well done).Since Jamie Uys it seems that RSA movies made for foreign audience can't avoid a lot of animals. They may be exotic and thus attractive to Europeans and Americans (though for most of them cows and ducks are equally exotic as leopards), so it can help selling the movie. However, in Mr Bones birds fly only to drop their bowel contains on human noses (when Mel Brooks made that it was original and was integrated in the story), not to mention bigger animals. If a medium size bird is supposed to make a big laugh every time it empties its intestines, imagine what an epic movie would be made if someone could get a pterodactyl! (Remember, we're in the age of bird influenza...)Apart from this type of humor (I use this word without believing in it), I noticed that the story, though settled in RSA (even some landscapes were the same or at least similar to Yankee Zulu), didn't show much about complicated relations between local races and nations as former Schuster's movies. And all this golf players and the whole movie can't hold a candle to a single scene taking part on golf terrain in Schuster's "Panic Mechanic". But since then Schuster obviously became a victim of Hollywood bowel-humor influence. I hope that a cure will be found soon enough.

I thought the movie rock. What made it even better was to watch my kids aged 8 and 10 enjoy the film.Everything was kept simple and the good, clean humor, despite some crude jokes, was put in place in a way the whole family can enjoy. Well Done! This movie has got a place in my collection.I was disappointed in the overall rating but since some of the finer humor is hidden in cultural differences, it is understandable that some folks might not get the whole picture.And I have to say that it was masterly achieved.

When my sister gave me this movie to watch, I just thought it would be 'just another manageable movie'. I was dead wrong! It was very, very funny. The plot was well laid. One thing led to another and then another. It started with an oraclist that was a white man (Mr Bones). He had been lost in Africa and had been adopted by an African king. The king had no son and desperately needed one. Mr Bones was then sent to the 'sun city' to bring home the king's son that the oracle showed existed. Mr Bones arrived at the city and mistakenly assumed the king's son was Vince Lee (a superstar golf player) who happened to be at the city at that point in time. Mr Bones was pretty sure he was the prince because he was called "the prince" by his fans. Upon meeting Mr Bones, Vince Lee called him a 'bone head' and this made Mr Bones even more sure that this was indeed the prince since he already knew his name. All in all this movie was really a very enjoyable one. You never stop laughing throughout the movie. You've got to see this.

I lived in South Africa for 8 years and this film is basically typical Afrikaans humour. In other words, toilet humour. Usually, I have nothing against toilet humour, but in Mr Bones it is done very poorly. 'There's a Zulu on My Stoep' is side splitting when compared to this trash. How is bird crap funny? Kids will find the humour to their liking, but thats about it.