Time is valuable. So choosing the
movies you watch is critical. You watch a wrong movie for 2 hours and there
goes 2 hours of your life which you cannot pull back. But if you have spent
that time on ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’, then you have done something to be happy
of.
Coming back from 1981 this one is
almost a classic. And believe me it will make you laugh so hard that you might
pull a rib or too.
The story starts just like a
Discovery program with a simple yet informative narration and scenes about the Bushmen
who lives in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. As the look alike documentary
start to evolve in to a story “Xi” is introduced. Xi is a Bushman who finds a
bottle of coke in the desert. Which is something he have never seeing and the
whole family starts to wonder what it was for. Meanwhile on the other side of the
desert rogue revolutionaries are being chased by the police. And not so far away
a beautiful young lady from the city has come to teach in the missionary school
and she is escorted to the rural village by Andrew who works for a Wild life
preservation agency. When Xi is forced to walk many miles in order to get rid
of the ‘Bottle’ he meets up with Andrew and the teacher and ultimately the
revolutionaries and the army.
Though the plot sounds a bit
complicated the humor is not. It’s very light and totally fantastic. Even the
narration which pops out time to time add up to it. And there is no way that
you can avoid laughing. At times you might feel sorry fo Xi who just cannot
properly digest what’s going around him. And at times you can totally have a
good laugh with Andrew. He does some real crazy things!!
This movie is worth watching. Not
just because it’s a comedy but because it goes a bit beyond that. Might make
you think a bit about life and its complications as well. And then forget most
of it for a minute and just be happy.
My Score 3.5/5
Genre: comedy
Director: Jamie Uys
Writer: Jamie Uys
Stars: N!xau, Marius Weyers and Sandra
Prinsloo
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