ActionComedy

The Gods Must Be Crazy

- The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop!

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.

Release Date : 1980-09-10

Language :AfrikaansEnglishTswana

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : CAT FilmsMimosa Films

Production Country : South AfricaBotswana

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Andrew Steyn

Original Name : Marius Weyers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kate Thompson

Original Name : Sandra Prinsloo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Xi

Original Name : N!xau

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sam Boga

Original Name : Louw Verwey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mpudi

Original Name : Michael Thys

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jack Hind

Original Name : Nic De Jager

Gender : Male

Character Name : Card 1

Original Name : Fanyana H. Sidumo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Card 2

Original Name : Joe Seakatsie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Thompson

Original Name : Brian O'Shaughnessy

Gender : Male

Character Name : President

Original Name : Ken Gampu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Paddy O'Byrne

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Reverend (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Graham Armitage

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Thompson (uncredited)

Original Name : Vera Blacker

Gender : Female

Character Name : Young Woman with Noise in Her Head (uncredited)

Original Name : Katinka Heyns

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kate Thompson (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Janet Meshad

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Reverend (uncredited)

Original Name : Jamie Uys

Gender : Male

Reviews

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

2021-06-23

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..