the leading man is my tpye

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Better Late Then Never

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This South African film was an unexpected worldwide hit in the early 1980s. It has a great opening 30 minutes, as it tells the story of the peaceful Bushmen, living happily as hunter gatherers in the Kalahari desert and oblivious to the modern world (even though the great modern cities of South Africa are located just a few hundred miles south of where they live). One day, a white pilot flying in a small airplane throws an empty Coke bottle into the desert. The Bushmen find it, and believing it to be a gift from the Gods, create many ingenious uses for it. However, since there is only one of it and is coveted by all the tribe, it creates all sort of bad feelings, like greed and jealousy. As the narrator implies, the Coke bottle has been an instrument through which the peaceful Bushmen has been contaminated by the modern world. So the elders of the tribe decide they should banish the bottle, and ask one of their hunters to go to the end of the world and throw it away. His trek begins, in which he will meet with many other, supposedly more civilized beings, including a white scientist, a female white journalist and some nasty African rebels. This part of the movie is not so great. It's heavy on slapstick, but is not really funny. Interestingly, this film was even accused of racism at the time for the way it portrayed the brutal African rebels (South Africa was then under apartheid and this was one of the rare films from that country released internationally).

Imagine a movie in the 80's depicting Africans as primitive people without being racist or disrespectful. That alone was a huge challenge in those sensitive times and this movie did it. It is a mockery of civilization along with a silly "G" rated love story/comedy-basically two plots in one movie loosely tied together. I first "heard" this movie when I somehow got a TV signal on my radio. I was in Army barracks and I liked nature shows so I listened without visual for a while at this odd narrative coming through the speakers. For a while I thought it *was* a nature show but I had never heard one so silly. Later I found out how unpopular it was with critics and "cool" people so after buying it I put it in the closet with my old Carpenters album and Dr. Demento video cassette only to be taken out when I was alone and wanted a little guilty pleasure from something I truly enjoyed after sitting through numerous fart jokes and other stuff that strained a laugh.

This is one hell of a movie!!It's a place where humor meets innocence. I remember watching this move 10 years back and it left a mark in me.The movie has two sequels to it, but the one that has done it all is this part! It captures the journey of Xi(N!xau), to dispose the 'evil thing' (a coke bottle) that accidentally falls 'from the sky', in a remote village in Africa. What one expects with this kind of a plot is how Xi tackles the real world outside him.For this movie , the amusing element is how well he adapts to it.Xi's journey intertwines with the journey of many other interesting characters and creates a laughter roll. Do not dismiss the movie as soulless, because it is full of it. And N!xau is a star!

This is about the journey of a man who discovers a Coke bottle and believes it to be a tool, given by the gods. He takes it back to his village. The people use it for many different purposes and end up fighting over it. This is one of only three movies that I have ever walked out of the movie theater while the movie was still playing.The premise is cute, but taken WAY too far. It loses the initial charm very quickly. This is an incredibly sad attempt at a satirical movie. It comes across as racist. This is a movie to avoid at all costs. I think I would rather go for a root canal. It would be less painful.