The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980

1h 49m

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7.3/10

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A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

Directors

Jamie Uys

Writers

Jamie Uys(screenplay by)

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Marius Weyers

Sandra Prinsloo

N!xau

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Andrew Steyn

Kate Thompson

Sam Boga

Mpudi

Jack Hind

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Narrator (voice)

The Reverend (voice) (uncredited)

Vera Blacker

Mrs. Thompson (uncredited)

Katinka Heyns

Young Woman with Noise in Her Head (uncredited)

Janet Meshad

Kate Thompson (voice) (uncredited)

Jamie Uys

The Reverend (uncredited)

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This is another one of those older movies my wife and I watched together over twenty years ago, and then recently watched again. We enjoyed it just as much as we did the first time. I had forgotten a lot of the details, so that was actually a good thing as it wasn’t overly familiar to me, like watching Groundhog Day yet again would be. The tag line suggests that the laughs never stop, but that isn’t quite accurate. There are a lot of laugh out loud moments, mostly physical humor, and plenty of pockets of humor here and there, but there are also connecting scenes that set up the plot lines and transition from one to another. There are three main plots that thread together and keep the viewers on their toes. The writer/director apparently put in months of long days without a break putting this together, and his effort was rightly rewarded with great success at the box office. Oddly enough, I didn’t recognize any of his other work, except for the more tepid sequel to this modern classic comedy..

narrator5605 Oct, 2020