The Worst Film Ever

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The Gods Must Be Crazy is a fun film for all, lighthearted and has a wonderful premise.I am little surprised that this is rated higher than the second film, which I feel is more of a complete film from start to finish, but I can certainly agree that the premise here is unrivaled. Someone dropping a coke bottle from the sky, making tasks easier but causing conflict among the bush people which they have never experienced and looking to rid the cause from the earth. The opening monologue about the civilized world is also so on point. I didn't care for any of the terrorist/military stuff and there is quite a bit of it, so that hurt, but I liked all the main characters. Unlike the second film, some of the comedy is a bit over the top and repetitive, with the jeep and being clumsy. The main highlights for me are all at the start with Xi and his people, though I really love Andrew & Mpudi's interaction throughout.Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again. And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...

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.

This is one hell of a movie!!It's a place where humor meets innocence. I remember watching this move 10 years back and it left a mark in me.The movie has two sequels to it, but the one that has done it all is this part! It captures the journey of Xi(N!xau), to dispose the 'evil thing' (a coke bottle) that accidentally falls 'from the sky', in a remote village in Africa. What one expects with this kind of a plot is how Xi tackles the real world outside him.For this movie , the amusing element is how well he adapts to it.Xi's journey intertwines with the journey of many other interesting characters and creates a laughter roll. Do not dismiss the movie as soulless, because it is full of it. And N!xau is a star!

This absurdly popular South African comedy offers little more than a gentle slapstick poke at civilization, following a chance encounter by an innocent Kalahari bushman with an empty Coca Cola bottle tossed from an airplane window. Believing it to be property of the Gods, he decides to walk "to the edge of the world" and throw the mystic talisman off, encountering along the way enough subplots to fill three separate films. Director Jamie Uys isn't above getting laughs by having his characters slip on banana peels, but elsewhere he shows a fertile comic imagination, even if his ideas are occasionally spoiled by crippling miscalculations: silly, speeded up photography; poor dubbing; a TV sit-com music score; and irrelevant voice-over narration, constantly belaboring the obvious. But it's a difficult film to dislike: the jokes are too good-natured, and the large cast of characters all too well equipped with human frailties.