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The Gods Must Be Crazy
- English: Dolby Digital Stereo
- German: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Hungarian: Dolby Digital Stereo
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
- English: Dolby Digital Stereo
- French: Dolby Digital Stereo
- German: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Italian: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Hungarian: Dolby Digital Stereo
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The Gods Must Be Crazy English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Czech, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hindi The Gods Must Be Crazy II English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
- 3 Theatrical trailer
- Photo gallery
- Documentaries
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
- 3 Theatrical trailer
- Featurette
- Animated menus
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The Gods Must Be Crazy: Ultimate Collector's Pack |
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment .
R4 . COLOR . 198 mins .
PG . PAL |
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The main feature, The Gods Must Be Crazy, is quite endearing in its low-budget slapstick way, as we follow the course of the little Kalahari bushman Xixo as he seeks to rid his village of the cursed object that has fallen from the sky - a Coca-Cola bottle. The second feature is more routine. Xixo goes on a quest to find two of his children who have been taken inadvertently from the desert by elephant-ivory poachers. And along the way he finds once again that the ways of the 'heavy' big people outside of the Kalahari are strange indeed. It's a more routine plot than the first, predictable at every turn, and without the offbeat charm of the first feature. The two movies really have to be packaged together, as I can't see anyone really wanting to buy or rent the second by itself.
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REVIEW: The Gods Must Be Crazy "This is a flawed DVD presentation of a cult comedy - hold back on purchase or rental until a corrected version is released." - Anthony Clarke |
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REVIEW: The Gods Must Be Crazy II "Here's our friendly palate-clicking Kalahari Bushman again, setting out to prove that the Gods must still be crazy..." - Anthony Clarke |
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The main flaw to this set remains the shoddy treatment given to the special documentary on the first disc, which traces the life of the bushman Nxau, who played Xixo, after his film roles. Nxau speaks at length in his native tongue. And subtitles are provided - in just about every language except English. It's hard to believe that this wasn't detected before the DVD was released - or, if spotted, that it wasn't deemed important enough to warrant correction.
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"Modest cult-comedy hit from the early 1980s is packaged with its fairly limp sequel, to prove that two can be less than one." - Anthony Clarke |
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