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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: The Gods Must Be Crazy!
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 13:16:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 13:16:23 1984
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"The Gods Must Be Crazy" is an excellent comedy.  The movie manages
to combine some interesting documentary-syle footage (of the Bushmen
of the Kalahari desert in S. Africa), some reasonably good social 
criticism (i.e., who is really "civilized"?), and some true slapstick
hysterics (the protagonist is a Kalahari Bushman who has never seen 
anyone except other Bushmen; when he stumbles upon "civilization", the
results are hilarious).  But he's not the only character involved;
there's a band of terrorists, a schoolteacher, a field biologist,
and the governments of two contries mixed up in this also!  If you're
wondering how they do it, go see the movie.

I only hope that people will not avoid this movie for political reasons
(i.e., that it was made in S. Africa).  If they did, they would really
be denying themselves a good, rolling-in-the-aisles time.

			Dave Wagner
			wagner@washington
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