Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

bombersflyup The Gods Must Be Crazy is a fun film for all, lighthearted and has a wonderful premise.I am little surprised that this is rated higher than the second film, which I feel is more of a complete film from start to finish, but I can certainly agree that the premise here is unrivaled. Someone dropping a coke bottle from the sky, making tasks easier but causing conflict among the bush people which they have never experienced and looking to rid the cause from the earth. The opening monologue about the civilized world is also so on point. I didn't care for any of the terrorist/military stuff and there is quite a bit of it, so that hurt, but I liked all the main characters. Unlike the second film, some of the comedy is a bit over the top and repetitive, with the jeep and being clumsy. The main highlights for me are all at the start with Xi and his people, though I really love Andrew & Mpudi's interaction throughout.Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again. And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...

kbrady-10968 Just stumbled upon the 1954 quasi-documentary Lady and the Bull (no not Lady and the Bullfighter from the same year). I wish I could ask director Jamie Uys if he saw this short before he made Gods because it seems like the prototypical reference of the gently narrated, crudely shot, blatantly overdubbed, stranger-in-a-strange-yet-charming-land saga that he is affectionately spoofing.On the other hand I know that S.Africa tried to keep out cultural influences from the outside world in those days so maybe he couldn't possibly have seen a Hollywood movie....

ammar-rehmani The movie showcases the innocence of a Bushman in a selfish (modern world) add slapstick to it, both elements of comedy are done in a innocent way. One of the best foreign comedy movie I have seen. The stories have a beautiful connection among them. I particularly enjoyed the part of Bushman tribe and kept thinking how the director managed to shoot them while maintaining their natural essence. The second element I loved was the slapstick comedy, I cannot remember last time I saw slapstick done in such a funny way. There were parts when I burst into laughter.The dialogues really added a flavor to the movie, even though they were dubbed, except a few. And finally the characters. The Bushman might take the limelight but for me the scientist was the funniest of them all. Enjoy this apparently simply but extremely well thought out comedy.

Susan S This is about the journey of a man who discovers a Coke bottle and believes it to be a tool, given by the gods. He takes it back to his village. The people use it for many different purposes and end up fighting over it. This is one of only three movies that I have ever walked out of the movie theater while the movie was still playing.The premise is cute, but taken WAY too far. It loses the initial charm very quickly. This is an incredibly sad attempt at a satirical movie. It comes across as racist. This is a movie to avoid at all costs. I think I would rather go for a root canal. It would be less painful.