Thursday, March 18, 2004

Movie Review: The Gods Must Be Crazy

Two days ago, I saw 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. To know what it is like, just imagine how the plot would change if coke bottle was dropped from a plane in the sky in the movie 'Walkabout'. If you haven't seen 'Walkabout', then you should just rent 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. In 'The Gods..' an aborigional tribe finds a glass bottle, which results in fighting over it in the tribe. Being a peaceful tribe, the leader sees this bottle as being an 'evil thing' for causing the fighting, so he decides to go on a journey to throw it off the edge of the world. At the same time in another area of the continent, there is a white guy that has trouble getting girls. I'm not going to tell you how the plot goes from there, but I will tell you that the way the movie was made was really weird. It randomly had all of the dialog dubbed over the voices for no reason, instead of just using the origional voices. For example, it had a white old man do the voice for this black guy. It even had the bushman's (the aborigional guy) clicking sounds dubbed over, which means that the dubbing wasn't for translation purposes. Also, the film is always sped up for no reason and it jumps a split second forward in time everyonce in awhile. The plot was so interesting and the movie was so random that I have to give it a 4 out of 5 rating.

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