The Gods Must Be Crazy

7/9/19841h 49m

Premiere Release (US)

~ The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Jamie Uys

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$5,000,000.00

Revenue:

$200,000,000.00

Key words:

airplane
africa
tribe
botswana
god
desert
soda bottle
kalahari
bushman
tribal
independent film

Cast

Marius Weyers

~ as ~

Andrew Steyn

Sandra Prinsloo

~ as ~

Kate Thompson

N!xau

~ as ~

Louw Verwey

~ as ~

Sam Boga

Michael Thys

~ as ~

Mpudi

Nic De Jager

~ as ~

Jack Hind

Fanyana H. Sidumo

~ as ~

Card 1

Joe Seakatsie

~ as ~

Card 2

Brian O'Shaughnessy

~ as ~

Mr. Thompson

Ken Gampu

~ as ~

President

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Reviews (1)

Peter McGinn
Written 5 year(s) ago
9
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..