Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
Scored from 31 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Xixo (N!xau), a San hunter in the Kalahari, sets out across the desert after his two small children climb onto the water tank of an ivory poachers' truck and are carried off. His search crosses two other stranded parties: Dr Ann Taylor, a New York lawyer whose light aircraft has come down in the dunes with Dr Stephen Marshall, a zoologist tracking elephants, and two soldiers from opposing armies who keep taking each other prisoner and marching in circles. Jamie Uys's sequel to his 1980 hit repeats that structure of separate comic threads converging in the bush, staged with sped-up slapstick, animal gags and a wry documentary-style narrator. It is family-oriented physical comedy that leans on visual gags rather than dialogue.
Released in 1989, The Gods Must Be Crazy II is a comedy film. It was made in South Africa. It runs 1h 38m and carries a PG certificate.
Only 31 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 34 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Gods Must Be Crazy II lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 31.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
