History Film / TheGodsMustBeCrazy

* TheUnpronounceable: The Bushmen's language, with its use of various clicks, is virtually unpronounceable to anyone else and Mpudi. And of course, the ''Bushmen'' think this of every other language.

* RunningGag: The two guys playing cards in the guerrilla gang. It becomes a ChekovsGun when they sneak off to keep playing, and avoid being tranquilized with the rest of the group, leading to trouble.

* RunningGag: The two guys playing cards in the guerrilla gang.

* GeniusDitz: Andrew Steyn: he's turns into a complete klutz at the presense of a woman, but he's the one who figures out that the large group of people walking below are hostages and figures out a way to disable them by having Xi disguise himself as one of the children and put the terrorists to sleep with a miniature bow laced with a tranquilizer.

* AppleOfDiscord: * The Coke bottle has a variety of uses in the African village into which it's thrown. Eventually, it causes people to start fighting over who gets to use it, to the point the villagers call it "the evil thing" when they realize what it's doing to them. Xi is tasked with getting rid of it after no one can agree on what else can be done.

* AppleOfDiscord: The Coke bottle to the Bushmen. When they realize what the tribe's fight for the bottle has done, they task Xi with ridding them of it.

* PandaingToTheAudience: In ''The Gods Must Be Funny in China'', N!xau must save a rare panda from a poacher.

We cut to a modern South African city to establish some "tribal" habits of the "civilized" people in the film. (TranslationConvention is not necessary as most South Africans can speak English while Xi and the other bushmen are unfamiliar with the language.) A couple of these city-inhabitants set out on their own quests, and they inevitably cross paths with Xi. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (genuinely) Ensues.]]

* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: The conclusion the Bushmen draw about the Coke bottle. It's extremely useful, but also one-of-a-kind. This is a totally new problem since in their experience there is no such thing as unique object in their world. Everything the bushmen use is either available in abundance or can be made so ownership isn't a concept.

* TheQuest: Find the end of the world, throw the bottle off of it. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Xi finds himself on a cliff far higher than he's probably ever stood in his life, above the clouds[[note]]It's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyde_River_Canyon_Nature_Reserve God's Window]], a popular vantage point overlooking the Blyde River Canyon Nature reserve[[/note]]. Understandably, he decides he's there, chucks the bottle off and goes home.]]

''Crazy Hong Kong'' takes the FishOutOfWater concept UpToEleven by having Xi get stranded in modern urban Hong Kong and get into various hilarious situations.

* TheAllegedCar: The Land Rover in the first film, which is such a troublesome vehicle that the characters actually nickname it "TheAntichrist" or "Son of Malakka" for Africans: it takes multiple people and a horse to get it started, one of the doors is permanently stuck and needs to be lifted off its hinges to open it and the handbrake is broken. The plane in the second film becomes its spiritual successor.

* TheAllegedCar: The Land Rover in the first film, which is such a troublesome vehicle that the characters actually nickname it "TheAntichrist" or "Son of Malakka" for Africans. The plane in the second film becomes its spiritual successor.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Done various times. One notable example involves when Xi shoots the goat. He erroneously believes it is food to eat, but fails to realize that this is the shepherd's goat. He cordially greets the angry shepherd, assuming that he is to share the feast. More hilarious confusion entails, but this eventually becomes [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint Dramatically Missing the Point]] as [[spoiler:Xi gets arrested for this confusion.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Xi considers the attractive heroine to be the "ugliest person he has ever seen."

%%* GeniusDitz: Andrew Steyn.

* PetTheDog: Terrorist leader Sam Boga acknowledging Kate's point and demanding that the army leave out food and water for the schoolchildren he's taken hostage is a standard case of PragmaticVillainy, but also making sure the military commanders are informed that he made a mistake in failing to plan ahead was somewhat decent of him, since he certainly didn't have to.

* PantyShot: Ann Taylor's skirt gets pulled over her head twice in the first sequel.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys:
** The two terrorists from the first film who are ''constantly'' playing cards, even while on a march.
** The jewel robbers in the fourth film who are after Xi for foiling their heist.

The Coca-Cola bottle is very useful. However, there is only one, which inevitably leads to conflict; and since it is harder than anything that can naturally be found in the Kalahari Desert, someone gets hurt. For the sake of the harmony of the tribe, one of their members, Xi, is tasked with dropping it off the edge of the earth.

* SceneryPorn: The African savannah, the Chinese wilderness, and other places are presented in all of their majesty as all kinds of funny hell are breaking loose.

* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: During the climax, Xi attempts to drive the Land Rover, but, due to inexperience, winds up putting it in reverse. Rather than attempt to correct his mistake, he simply [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments stands on the hood and steers it backwards.]]

* MoodWhiplash: In an otherwise cute and slapsticky film, there's a scene where guerrillas slaughter a roomful of people with machine gun fire (right after they kick the doors open and have them comically rebound off the walls and slam shut in their faces again).

* HilarityEnsues: The main drive of all of the films in the series, starting with seeing what happens whem some random litterbug tosses a Coke bottle in the middle of the African savannah.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The jewel robbers in the fourth film who are after Xi for foiling their heist.