The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984)

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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....

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.

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.

My wife introduced me to this movie. What a movie, I can watch it time and again. It is a truly great movie that grossed around $30,000,000.00. Jamie Uys paid N!xau a few hundred dollars for his role that made this movie. N!xau did get better pay in the sequels, but died of multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis. I guess he was not a SAG member. Truly a disgrace this man was not treated better. To make several successful movies and not get medical care? With all the causes Hollywood pushes with their star power I do not understand why this man was left in the conditions he lived. I know he was happy, as money had little meaning for him, but at lease get his people medical care.