The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I feel so lucky because I was given the chance to find and watch this movie right before it was deleted from Netflix. The poster was actually a turndown for me until something encouraged me to check this movie out on IMDb. It has a good rating. So I decided to download and watch this movie. And WOW! Suddenly I fell in love with this movie. It was a simple yet very entertaining and informative movie. It was filmed like a documentary, btw. It didn't provide you with so many great cinematography or screen quality since it's an 80's movie but the story and comedy was really great. It was so amusing. I think it's a universal comedy because I'm quite sure all people from every country, with different kind of ages will have a lot of laugh while watching this movie. I hope someday I'm gonna have a chance to watch this movie again. It deserve a rewatch from me.

There are bushmen, who live in the Kalahari Desert. At first they tell us about their way of life. Later there is footage of life in the big city. The narrator keeps talking about modern life. We move back to the bushmen. A man in a passing airplane tosses a Coke bottle out the window. It lands close to the bushman, who has never seen anything like it before. Later it causes all kinds of problems and the bushman tries hide it. Later the leader of the rebels in Burundi trys to assassinate the President. Later they're chased by the military. I think this is a good movie. This is a good movie to watch, i have seen it two times in the last year.

Imagine a movie in the 80's depicting Africans as primitive people without being racist or disrespectful. That alone was a huge challenge in those sensitive times and this movie did it. It is a mockery of civilization along with a silly "G" rated love story/comedy-basically two plots in one movie loosely tied together. I first "heard" this movie when I somehow got a TV signal on my radio. I was in Army barracks and I liked nature shows so I listened without visual for a while at this odd narrative coming through the speakers. For a while I thought it *was* a nature show but I had never heard one so silly. Later I found out how unpopular it was with critics and "cool" people so after buying it I put it in the closet with my old Carpenters album and Dr. Demento video cassette only to be taken out when I was alone and wanted a little guilty pleasure from something I truly enjoyed after sitting through numerous fart jokes and other stuff that strained a laugh.

Years ago I caught this film on cable television, and watched about twenty minutes of it before switching off. I thought it was the biggest pile of rubbish that I'd ever seen, what with speeded up Keystone Cops slapstick in just about every scene, and a guy in a Rhino suit pretending to be the real thing. Add to that the documentary style narrative and you have, for me at the time, one of the worst films ever. But I've watched it just now and must say I was well wrong. I must have been in a bad mood or something, because the Gods Must Be Crazy is wonderful.A pilot flying over Botswana throws and empty coke bottle out of his window, and it ends up landing in a village of bushmen. Not knowing what it is, their leader, played by a real Bushman called N!Xau, finds many uses for it before it's usefullness inspires jealousy and envy. Now seeing it as an Evil Thing, he tries throwing it back to the Gods, whereupon of course gravity takes hold and it bounces off of his son's head. N!Xau then decides to head off to the edge of the world and throw it away.Meanwhile a Communist leader attempts a coup but fails, and the authorities chase him and his men into Botswana.Also meanwhile a South African gentleman and his mechanic are asked to pick up a white woman who wants to teach people in a nearby village. The things is, this guy (Mr Stane, I think his name was) gets very nervous in the company of women, and his jeep, dubbed the anti-Christ by the mechanic, doesn't help matters.All these elements come together, of course. N!Xau is arrested for killing a goat (he has no concept of ownership) and is only helped out by Mr Stane and the mechanic (who can speak N!Xau's language). While out in the wilderness working away, they spot, using a telescope, that the teacher and her pupils have been kidnapped by the Communist leader, who hopes he can make it out of the country while using them as hostages. Here, N!Xau knowledge of stalking comes into play.This movie is very odd, but also very entertaining and sometimes touching. You've got to envy N!Xau's simple life, and the bemused look on his face at the idiotic things people in the developed world do is a wonder to behold. So is his language, a series of clicks mixed with spoken words. You get used to the speeded up sequences (Keystone cops rocket launcher attack?) and it becomes clear that there is some genuine humour behind all the slapstick. The scene at the end when N!Xau throws the bottle away in silent contemplation is a cracker (yes - he does find the end of the world, sort of). He must be the least neurotic film character I've ever seen.Highly daft and slightly cheesy, with great cinematography (which was probably missing all those years before DVD), you come away from this film feeling a lot better, which doesn't happen often.