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From the creator of The Gods Must Be Crazy. Away in their own mysterious world, far from the prying eyes of people, Africa’s animals lead lives of humor and horror, danger and dignity. Amazon.com
On the short list for the “world’s toughest place to live” award, Southwest Africa’s Namib Desert houses a wealth of intriguing creatures, featured in Jamie Uys’s Animals are Beautiful People. As various beasts, bugs, fish, and fowl appear, a soft-spoken narrator pinpoint… More >>
If we had known at the time of purchasing this that the same people who created this tape were also the creators of “The Gods Must Be Crazy” then we never would have bought this. The kids were completely bored and it was turned off after 10 minutes!
Rating: 1 / 5
Why would anyone want their children (or students) to view a film that puts drunkenness in a humorous light? And for those who may care, the African family in this film has almost nothing on and the mother is bare-breasted (the family is featured for many minutes).
Rating: 1 / 5
Anthropomorphizing at its worst. The animals are ridiculed by a narration that imposes insulting “human” scripts onto their actions. Even the clouds are maligned and portrayed as “armies”. Combine that with the worst musical score you’ve ever heard, and you have a film that belittles and trivializes the immensity of nature and the lives of non-human animals. It’s obvious many of the animals in the movie have been manipulated and deliberately placed in potentially harmful scenarios. I can’t believe this won best documentary of the year!! There may be some nice photography here and there and possibly one or two facts, but it’s an embarrassing statement about the ‘film’ makers. It leaves the viewer cold or just plain angry.
Rating: 1 / 5
Oddly enough, this film opens at swanky Abbondazio’s, a popular lunchtime eatery of L.A.’s priviledged and coddled. Madonna, Mrs. Fidel Castro, Cher, and Elton John are nibbling on their minimalist lunches while Elton diatribes on and on about not being allowed to wear his pink alpaca coat anymore. We know the coat has been died pink because Madonna keeps insisting that real alpaca doesn’t “come” in pink. Elton insists that HIS alpaca does. Inscrutable Cher just smiles wanly while the (one gets the impression) always a little too eager to please Mrs. Castro tries to be helpful by punctuating every comment with “ai, chica, I dunno.” Fascinating.
Rating: 5 / 5
the movie I received was not what I expected, I had seen it on TV years ago and what I got was completely different, the one I saw had giraffes that were drunk with the fruit hippos, or elephants that were drunk, monkeys laying on the ground drunk, it was hillarious and the one that i got from you was not the movie I saw at all, I was very dissapointed, and wish I could find the one that was very funny throughout the movie. Is there a possibility that you know what I’m talking about and maybe I could get the right picture?..
Rating: 2 / 5