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Action, Comedy 109 min PG
Rotten Tomatoes86%Metacritic73IMDb
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.
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Comic, effortless, unpretentious and warm.
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"Xi" (N!xau) lives with his tribe on the edge of the Kalahari desert much the way his ancestors have for generations until one of their number discovers a glass Coca-Cola bottle. We know it had recently been rather thoughtlessly chucked out of an aircraft window by it's pilot, but they think it might be a gift from the gods. It is a curious and smooth shape, and it even has it's uses for helping to cure snake skins, but gradually it becomes more of a bone of contention so "Xi" decides it's time to give it back. How, though? Well perhaps a trip to the edge of the world might be in order? Enthusiastically, off he sets and along the way encounters biologist "Steyn" (Marius Weyers); schoolteacher "Kate" (Sandra Prinsloo) and also finds himself embroiled with the manic activities of a would-be revolutionary who wants to take her and her children hostage, whilst she has to deal with the hapless and love-struck scientist who goes to pieces every time he sets eyes on her. What ensues now has something of the "Airplane" - if it can go wrong it will - to it, only this time with some added pith from dead-pan narrator Paddy O'Byrne that nicely augments a series of daft antics set amongst the w
Read the whole review on TMDBThis 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..
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