Crazy Safari
Cantonese Title: Fai Chow Woh Gwing
Mandarin Title: Fei1 Zhou1 Han4 Shang4

(1991)
[Actor]

Producers: Charles Heung Wah-Keung, Barry Wong Ping-Yiu
Director: Billy Chan Wui-Ngai
Action Director: Lee King Chue
Cast: Lam Ching-Ying, N!xau, Peter Chan, Sam Christopher Chan, Lik So, Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (narration), Ng Man-Tat (narration)

Lam Ching-Ying and N!xau in Mr. Vampire meets The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Surreal, bizzare, and funny as hell. For once, the Eternal Sifu is out of his element, and doesn't understand everything at a glance. Most of the story takes place in Africa after a little bit more than just one Coke bottle is thrown out of a cargo plane and found by native villagers. Like Grandpa, who is now one of the hopping dead. The movie reuses several jokes from the original Gods Must Be Crazy, but to good effect, and sometimes with a hilarious twist. Like Sifu's encounter with the rhinocerous. My copy doesn't have subtitles, but don't let that stop you from getting it if you can. Significant portions of the dialogue are in English, so it makes it easy to follow along. And it doesn't even matter if you can't. Could you really pass up the oppurtunity to see Sifu Ostrich wrangling? -gg-

Here it is-the first vampire movie set in Africa! After I watched I thought-how wonderfully weird. I spent half the time thinking this is the strangest thing I have ever seen. Anyways, to the movie now-an annoying British-Chinese prat takes his ancestor back to his home town, for luck. Only problem is that his ancestor has turned into a vampire, and so LCY the taoist comes along to help. Halfway there they crash-land onto the middle of Africa, and vampire runs off somewhere, so they have to look for him (while riding on ostriches). Meanwhile the vampire is seen as a god-like figure to the villagers. Great demented little film, although that Sam Christopher Chan whats-his-face got onto my nerves, and the end was a little corny! Since when did a vampire get to smile and act like a human? Then again, this is NOT your conventional vampire story. -Cissi-

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