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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Gods Must Be Crazy -- a dissenting view
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 23:46:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 23:46:14 1985
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Best-Buy: "Bob"


No offense intended to those of you who've been raving about "The Gods Must
Be Crazy," but I recently saw the movie and I thought it stank.  Between the
ads and what people had been saying in this newsgroup, I went into the movie
expecting a charming and sensitive look into another culture -- an
ethnological comedy of manners, perhaps.  What I found instead was not only
slapstick, but the lowest form of slapstick: awkward, crudely timed and with
an annoying dependence on silly tricks using sped-up or reversed footage.
Walt Disney did better at his absolute worst.

This was the most disappointing movie I've been to in recent memory and I
wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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