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Summary: One of the best movies ever made!
Review: I'm sure I've seen this movie a half dozen times on cable, and I used to own it on LaserDisc. I still love it. Watch it as slapstick comedy or serious satire. It is both. It pokes fun at Western ideas of intelligence and competence. What is interesting is that this movie was made for very little money using unknown talent. Yet, it is a classic that people are still watching 20 years later. It is sad that Hollywood cannot learn anything from this film and others like it. I'm looking forward to the DVD of "The Gods Must Be Crazy II".
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Summary: Ingenious!!! A comic masterpiece....
Review: My mom and dad and I watched this movie one Sunday afternoon (a few years ago...). We didn't realize we had the channel on HBO...we thought we were watching a documentary about Bushmen at first. Then, with the Coke bottle, the crazy British guy who loses his cool around women, and the scene with the rhino and the fire, we were nearly peeing in our pants! The wry British humor and the fact that the characters take themselves too seriously make it even more funny. And the Bushmen, what a hoot! They live life so simply and unhindered by our modern day conveniences that their naivety makes them equally funny...and sweet. While the movie is hilarious and touching, it is also a great way to see Africa's wilds. And this is one of those movies that is funny not only the first time you see it, but every single time afterward. I love showing this to friends and people who've not heard of it. I get the same reactions everytime -- they nearly die laughing. Buy this movie and add it to your "Favorites". I guarantee you'll chuckle...
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Summary: The Gods must be crazy - First edition
Review: Dear Lord, this is by far the funniest, fun, and educated movie that has come out of Africa. I can never get enough of it. Thus far, I have watched this movie three times and I am dying to see The Gods must be crazy 11. My only question is, when will Amazon get both films in DVD version? I cannot wait to by both of them once the DVD version is released. Please get out there and rent the Gods must be crazy film. It is truly entertaining for the entire family. I am totally crazy about this movie.
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Summary: the gods must be crazy for allowing this movie to be made
Review: The gods must be crazy is an insult to all movie makers in world history. it is a story of pain, agony and just the hope of making it to the end (and that is just the story of watching it).dont get me wrong the movie can be very humorous at times, but thats only for the first 4 and a half minutes of laughing at the same joke. it insults the african people of this region. making the kalahari tribesmen look like a people of stupidity and the micro-biologists look like a babbling idots.i am telling you, if you own a copy of this movie go out to your backyard and burn it. Dont allow this "plague" to reach the future generations of our people.
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Summary: There are two "The Gods Must be Crazy"
Review: There are actually two "The Gods Must be Crazy" not one. The first film is crazy fun, but the second film is even crazier. I have seem them both and it would be a great pity if only the first film became available on DVD. The 2nd sequel of the the same title is even funnier - if that is possible. So, now you know and Amazon has to get BOTH films.
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Summary: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Review: All though only on VHS have recently seen it again for about the sixth time on cable. The simplistic life of the bushman compared to the hectic life of big city is just amazing. It makes our lives seem even more crazy. I can only wish it would come out in DVD so it will last forever or more than tape anyway. I would hate to see this film lost because of celluloid. Future generations need to see this one.
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Summary: Remarkable Films with Staying Power
Review: The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II are absolutely unique for American audiences. Unlike other favorite comedies, these movies are timeless. This is Marx Brothers comedy in set in South Africa. It is rare to find anybody who has ever seen these movies that didn't love them. I am astonished they are not on DVD.
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Summary: Man must be crazy not to see this
Review: While the Kalahari Desert looks like a paradise, it's the most treacherous desert in the world, where there is no water for nine of the twelve months of the year. Much of the first twenty or so minutes is spent documentary-style, contrasting the lifestyles between the "pretty, dainty, small, and graceful" Bushmen and "civilized" man. They've adapted to their environment. There's no sense of ownership--what's there to own?--and wood is the hardest thing there. There's also no crime, punishment, violence, laws, police, judges, rules, or bosses. It sounds like a utopia. Compare that with "civilized man", who adapts his environment to suit him, builds power lines to run his labour-saving devices and didn't know where to stop. More improvements mean more complications, which is why all of us are sentenced to twelve years at school to survive in this complex habitat. So when a Coke bottle tossed from an airplane is found by Xi, a Bushmen, it disrupts their concept of the gods giving them good and useful things, as clearly, there wasn't enough of those given them. Xi, played by real Bushmen (N!xau) sets out to get rid of the bottle. In Botswana, there's biologist Andrew Steyn who's assigned to pick up Kate Thompson, a reporter who's tired of the rat race in Pretoria and decides to become a teacher in Botswana. Comedic disaster results in two forms. One is Steyn's becoming a complete bumbler around beautiful women, and the blonde Kate is quite a looker. The other involves his driving a land rover, dubbed by his African friend Mpudi as the anti-christ, as there's nothing but trouble with this vehicle. Mpudi's cursing at the rover is funny. Needless to say, calamity results on her first day with him. And a band of armed terrorists led by the bearded Sam Boja make their way from the republic of Burani (fictional, of course) down to Botswana. The seriousness is lightened by two of his members, who when they aren't shooting their automatics, are busy playing cards. Some comedic moments involve repeated lines. Steyn's chosen one is "Ai yai yai!" at some predicament. However, a lot of comedy involves people out of their element, i.e. Steyn with women, Kate in the wild, and of course Xi far away from the Kalahari and his simple ways--or a real laugh, see him trying to drive the anti-christ. I would say this is a one-of-a-kind film, but there was a sequel that followed four years later. Jamie Uys, who produced and directed the film, has a small cameo in the beginning as the reverend who asks Steyn to go pick up Ms. Thompson. The fastly-run film harkens to the old silent slapstick comedies. So remember, Monday morning at 8:00 AM, when everyone has to look busy, think of the pit we dug ourselves in, and think how simple those bushmen have it, take a page from Steyn and say "Ai yai yai!" because the gods, i.e. us people, must be crazy.
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Summary: First of its kind
Review: The first of a type of movie is usually the most impressive and this film is most impressive. It is written in a narrative style; the narrator describes three intertwined themes.
A coke bottle falls from the sky. It proves to be such a useful took from the gods that it causes coveting among a Kung San tribe and therefor the gift must be returned. On the journey we cross others pressing their journeys. We follow a keystone cop type good people chasing clumsy revolutionaries. And a tongue tied (along with everything else) scientist who is enamored of a new teacher (Sandra Prinsloo.) Keep an eye on her daisies.
Will the return be accomplished? And what trials lay in store on the journey?
In any event you will never look at a coke bottle the same way.
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Summary: The funniest movie I had ever seen
Review: Such a pity it's not yet released on DVD. For amateurs of extremely intense laughing, this movie is a must have. I saw it many times and I just couldn't stop laughing at the same scenes over and over again. Can't wait to have a DVD version.
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