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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) poster
1980
global pct
88.2

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Scored from 134 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

88.2%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
87.5%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
97.6%
AI-adjusted percentile
134 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A Coca-Cola bottle tossed from a passing plane lands in the Kalahari Desert, where a Bushman named Xi and his tribe initially see it as a gift from the gods before it begins causing jealousy and conflict. Xi sets out on a journey to the edge of the world to throw the troublesome object away, his path crossing with a clumsy biologist, a new village schoolteacher, and a band of bumbling guerrillas.

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) is a film IMDb files under the adventure and comedy genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,705 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 134 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 140 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
134

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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