The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
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.
- Jamie Uys
- Kobus Kruger
- Di Yates
- Caroline Burls
- Jamie Uys
Rating: 7.3/10 by 1139 users
Alternative Title:
Los dioses deben estar locos - ES
众神也疯狂 (上) - CN
Боговете сигурно са полудели - BG
Los dioses Deben Estar Locos - SV
Боги, наверное, сошли с ума - RU
Os Deuses Devem Estar Loucos - PT
부시맨 - KR
เทวดาท่าจะบ๊องส์ - TH
Les Dieux sont tombés sur la tête - FR
כולם נפלו על הראש - IL
Zijn de goden gek? - BE
Os Deuses Devem Estar Loucos - BR
Les Dieux sont tombés sur la tête - CA
Bohovia sa museli zblázniť - XC
Bohové musejí být sílení - CZ
Az istenek a fejükre estek - HU
ミラクル・ワールド ブッシュマン - JP
Богови су пали на теме - RS
Gudarna måste vara tokiga - SE
上帝也瘋狂 - TW
Мабуть Боги з'їхали з глузду - UA
Đến Thượng Đế Cũng Phải Cười - VN
Tanrılar Çıldırmış Olmalı - TR
Country:
South Africa
Botswana
Language:
Afrikaans
English
Runtime: 01 hour 49 minutes
Budget: $5,000,000
Revenue: $200,000,000
Plot Keyword: airplane, africa, coca-cola, tribe, god, desert, soda bottle, kalahari, bushman, tribal, independent film
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..
