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Summary: Best comedy of all time
Review: I never understood how people could nominate their favourite movie of all time until I saw this.
I suppose if you have got as far as reading this review you already know about the movie anyway!
The scenes with the land rover "the anti Christ" and gate opening using the rock as a hand brake would prompt me into repeated laughter for the rest of my life if played in a loop.
As a Spike Milligan, Monty Python etc fan I am not easily amused.
There are several underlying thought provoking themes here that could occupy volumes, sociological imagination, the Nacirema concept and all that.
Simply superb and superbly simple.
Buy it with a money back guarantee from me. If you don't laugh heartily and repeatedly on watching it I will refund your expenses. If I fail to - sue me and on producing any snippet from the movie as evidence any court in the world will dismiss the case!!!!!
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Summary: Still cyco after all this years!!!!
Review: I agree with everybody!! The first movie is in fact, the funniest film I have and will ever see!!! Most important of all...even though it is a low budget comedy, it contains one of the most important and positive messages in motion picture history...figure it out for yourself!!! The second film is not as good as the first, but it's very funny in its own right. The films are hilarious and silly as hell, creative, thought provoking, intellectual, educational, informative, sincere...and best of all.....very "human" indeed!!! Enjoy two of the last "TRUE" comedy jewels of 20Th century cinema! Too bad Hollywood will never do something as good or honest as this!
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Summary: The Gods Must be Crazy 1 & 2
Review: I have laughed at these movies, I never tire of them!!!! Some of the scenes are so funny I have to rewatch them in order to catch every word. In Gods 1, nothing beats the scene of the classroom visit for good old slapstick. If that doesn't get you, the car up the tree causes pain. In Gods 2, when the little demon latches onto the boot--I am in tears. The Rhino stamping out the fire--do they really do that? Everything about the tiny plane.... I would be hard pressed to name two movies that have delighted me more.
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Summary: The World's Funniest Movies
Review: What a blast to see so many reviews for both of these movies! I thought no one else knew about them! I started rewatching a copy of The Gods Must Be Crazy II (that I had made years ago) with my son who was 6 months old and it was the only way that I could get him to settle in at the end of the day. The movie just captivated his attention so that we watched it every night until he was two years old and started talking, then I was afraid he would copy the language of the bad guys. We still take it out once and awhile for some good belly laughs, especially when the woman tries to distract a male ostritch and the man is being chased for taking the egg, hits his head, comes face to face with a chetah, then finally lies down flat and the ostritch steps on him! The funniest lines are delivered so deadpan and the writing and switching from scenes that are all so critical to the story are brilliant, not one wasted moment. For the die hard fans of the second movie here are some of my favorite things you don't notice until you have seen it for a year straight, see if you can spot them: the man hands helping the smallest boy out of the water truck (grabbing the skull horns), also the gray metal case left next to the African soldier's jeep when he leaves the high view point to try to intercept the enemy. Also how the shape of the paper coming off of the printer in the lawyer's office matches the dried plants next to the children looking at the tracks in the sand in the next immediate scene. They do alot of that where, in the three different plots, the transition between one scene to the next is a repeat image or phrase that also applies or echos in the next scene. Fun to watch and just as interesting with each viewing! I can hardly wait for the DVDs!
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Summary: Funniest move EVAH
Review: I saw this movie the first time back in 82 and have yet to see another that has made me laugh more. It is a cross between a foreign adventure and a 3 Stooges comedy (YES THERE IS ACTUALLY A SCENE IN WHICH SOMEONE SLIPS ON A BANANA PEEL!!!!) The gods Must Be Crazy is a must see for family movie night, invite grandma and grandpa mom and dad and kids of all ages...they'll love it!!!!
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Summary: Sidesplitting!
Review: This was the funniest movie I've ever seen. I rented it years ago and still tell people to get their hands on it if they can - the scenes with the demon-possesed land river while the girl-shy scientist is on his way to pick up the new teacher are the most original slapstick I've ever seen! I laughed until tears ran down my face! A wonderful film!
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Summary: A response to C. Keylard
Review: Actually, there are four, not two, "Gods Must Be Crazy" films.The third, "Crazy Safari," dates from 1991, and was directed by Billy Chan. I won't recount the plot. You'll find everything you need to know here: http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/cinema/reviews/crazysaf.html I could not find much on the fourth, "The Gods Must Be Crazy in China," except to say that it dates from the late nineties. "Crazy Safari" was brought to my attention in the early-mid nineties by a preview on a rented video; a year or so ago, I finally had the opportunity to see it. I simply couldn't make it to the end. It takes all of the charm and profundity of the original and the equally good first sequel and reduces it to tasteless slapstick. Do not bother with "Crazy Safari," you will be severly disappointed. (My five-star rating applies to the first two "Gods Must Be Crazy" movies. The fourth I have not seen.) You have been warned. ;-)
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Summary: Finally on DVD!
Review: Saw this several times mostly in theaters. I have been waiting for a DVD version for ever. Let's hope it is not a grainy transfer (as other movies from this studio has been).
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Summary: "So how did the land rover get up the tree?"
Review: In 1980, director Jamie Uys (1921-1996) wrote, produced, directed and even acted in a landmark film entitled "The Gods Must Be Crazy" which is about a little Bushman named Xixo (N!xau, 1944-2003) from the Kalahari Desert who has ever ventured far from home nor has any concept of technology. When a coke bottle falls from a plane that is flying overhead and nearly hits Xixo, he believes that it is a gift from the gods, takes it and uses it as a tool for many everyday tasks. Other members of Xixo's tribe also use the bottle, but they eventually begin to fight over it. Deciding that the bottle is an evil thing, Xixo decides that he must return it to the gods and begins a lengthy journey to find the edge of the world from which to throw the evil bottle away. Also being totally uneducated about other people's (and nation's) customs and laws, Xixo hunts an animal for food in a park. Park rangers come along, are unable to communicate with Xixo and arrest him for poaching. Unfortunately for Xixo, he has absolutely no concept that he has done anything wrong, but when he is brought before a local court, a man is there who speaks Xixo's language. The court awards custody of Xixo to the man, a mechanic named Mpudi (Michael Thys), who is friend and an assistant of sorts to a bumbling wildlife biologist, Andrew Steyn (Marius Weyers). Andrew is smitten with his village's new school-teacher, Kate Thompson (Sandra Prinsloo). The village also has a church whose reverend is played by Jamie Uys. While Xixo is trying to cope with technology, while Andrew is trying to woo Kate and while Mpudi is trying to keep their demonic land rover working, a terrorist named Sam Boga (Louw Verwey) is also on the loose. Jamie Uys' plot, dialog and direction was completely supurb in "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Jamie Uys won the Most Popular Film Award from the Montréal World Film Festival in 1983, and it was nominated as Best Foreign Film by the César Awards in France in 1984. Sadly, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" received no attention from the Academy Awards. The characters in the film are both endearing and engaging, especially Xixo whose innocence in the face of modern civilization was superbly acted by N!xau. I was very sad when I heard of N!xau passing away earlier this year. He will always be remembered as the little Bushman. Overall, I rate "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it to everyone. I applaud Jamie Uys, N!xau and the other actors in the film for creating such a masterpiece on a shoe-string budget and can't wait to get a copy of the film on DVD!
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Summary: A Friendly Reminder
Review: This movie is a funny and gentle piece that reminds us not to take ourselves or our problems too seriously. Created in 1980, a time of economic and political uncertainty, the plot showed that even in the simple life of a Bushman there were problems that seemed unsolvable. This against the backdrop of a fleeing terrorist gang and a kind hearted South African woman that voluteers to teach in Botswana as a way to escape urban stress. A comic foil in the the person of a bumbling microbiologist adds a hilarious romantic interest for the school teacher. The comedy is good natured and doesn't come at the expense of anyone's core dignity. Most of the characters emerge as likable, well intentioned and genuine. Even the terrorist is hard to hate, after all it's just a story. Parents might which to take note, there a bare breasted native women but it is not out of place in this context. These appear to be real bush people filmed in their element and it comes across as genuine and inoffensive. This is a GREAT movie that I try to watch whenever I need to regain perspective.
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