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The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy

  • Status: Released
  • 10-09-1980
  • Runtime: 109 min
  • Score: 7.272
  • Vote count: 1212

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.

Marius Weyers

Andrew Steyn

Sandra Prinsloo

Kate Thompson

N!xau

Xi

Louw Verwey

Sam Boga

Michael Thys

Mpudi

Nic De Jager

Jack Hind

Fanyana H. Sidumo

Card 1

Joe Seakatsie

Card 2

Brian O'Shaughnessy

Mr. Thompson

Ken Gampu

President

Paddy O'Byrne

Narrator (voice)

Graham Armitage

The Reverend (voice) (uncredited)

Vera Blacker

Mrs. Thompson (uncredited)

Katinka Heyns

Young Woman with Noise in Her Head (uncredited)

Janet Meshad

Kate Thompson (voice) (uncredited)

Jamie Uys

The Reverend (uncredited)

Peter McGinn

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..