- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While successful enough to be exported overseas, the movie especially has Cult Classic status in Eastern Europe.
- Moral Event Horizon: General Diehard is a bigoted fascist with a clear bias against Zulu, in addition to hunting down the half-million rand check. But he crosses the line big time when he, clearly gone insane from the kids' booby traps, tries to kill Tienkie.
- Tear Jerker:
- A young Zulu and Rhino going their separate ways after the latter was coaxed into shooting a tin can off Zulu's head by Rowena despite both boys' objections.
- When imprisoned by the baddies, Rhino confides in Zulu that he adopted Tienkie from the latter's friend and only love Thandi, who was explicitly mentioned to have died years earlier.
- Values Dissonance: While the movie, to its credit, portrays racism in a negative light, one who lives outside of South Africa in the modern age might not find it funny that Rhino and Zulu resort to disguising themselves as a black and white man respectively.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It appears to be a family-oriented movie in its native country (and has been rated PG and different equivalents in other countries) but it has quite a bit of (mild) cursing, a hefty barrage of slapstick and villains who are clearly white supremacists/fascists.
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