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    WSR Detailed DVD Review
    Gods Must Be Crazy I & II
    Double Feature
    Genre: Comedy

    Reviewed In Issue 84 (May 2004) Of Widescreen Review®

    Stars:
    Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau, Louw Verwey, Michael Thys, Nic De Jager, Fanyana Sidumo, Joe Seakatsi, Brian O

    WSR Review Scores
    WSR Picture Rating: 2
    DD Sound Rating: 2.5
    DTS Sound Rating: NA
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    Reference Systems
    Critics' Composite Score: 4
    Internet Links
    http://www.sonypictures.com
    Special Features
    Includes the 26-minute Journey To Nyae Nyae featurette, a Baraka school photos still gallery, and the theatrical trailer. Features on Disc Two include a seven-minute memoir of Jamie Uys by cinematographer Buster Reynolds, as well as trailers.


     DVD General Information

    (Studio/Distributor): Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
    (Catalog Number): 10649
    (MPAA Rating): PG
    (Rating Reason):

    		 NA
    (Retail Price): $29.95
    (DVD Type): Two-Disc Set: DVD-9 & DVD-5
    (Widescreen Edition): Yes
    (Full Screen Edition): No
    (Anamorphic Widescreen): Yes
    (Running Time In Minutes): 109 & 97
    (Color Type): Color
    (Chaptered/Scene Access): Yes
    (Closed Captioned): Yes
    (Regional Coding): 1
    (Theatrical Year): 1980 & 1988
    (Theatrical Release): Yes
    (Direct-To-Video Release): No
    (DVD Release Date): 02/03/04
    (THX® Digitally Mastered): No

     Credits Information

    (Director): Jamie Uys
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    Special Notes:
    Available individually on June 1, 2004

    Story Synopsis:
    Disc One of this two-disc set includes "The Gods Must Be Crazy." When African tribesman Xixo (N!xau) is nearly hit by a Coke bottle (which was thrown from a plane by a littering pilot) while walking through the brush, he believes that it is a

    DVD Picture:
    The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 DVD picture for "The Gods Must Be Crazy" offers the first-ever widescreen edition, and is dated and dirty, mostly due to a poor quality source element (which appears to have been a release print) and the film

    Soundtrack:
    Both "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy II" are encoded in Dolby

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