Os Deuses Devem Estar Loucos 5: Trapalhadas na China

April 2021

Gods must be funny in china (Gods Must be crazy 5) is the last of the HK films with Nixau, and its the 2nd best of the 3.

It goes for out and out laughs, Nixau gets involved in some kind of team race, and i know there is a panda in it too.

Cynthia Khan and Kent Cheng also star.

Well worth checking out for fans of HK comedy or fans of the Gods must be crazy.

9 out of 10.

By the time Hong Kong films its third film featuring African bushman N!xau, his character has really gotten pretty commercialized and ridiculed into goofiness and idiocy. In this film, the bushman supposedly travels to Beijing where he's recruited to join a track team on a survival race through the Chinese wilderness.

Plenty of unfunny nonsensical comic stuff and goofy acting, with a plot that really goes all over the place. OK to give it a pass.

Grade D--

The last movie in the career of THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY star N! Xau is perhaps the least of his work, but not without merit for fans of wacky Hong Kong comedies. This one's a cheap but enthusiastic ensemble piece partially shot on the Great Wall. It involves Kent Cheng and N! Xau becoming enlisted into a team racing as part of a competition, and they have to fend off rivals including a random panda-hunting businessman, Arabs and some Shaolin monks. Cynthia Khan pops up as a jungle dweller and Cheng Pei Pei plays the trainer. There's a random interlude in the middle with a whole bunch of obviously circus-trained animals which can be hard to stomach, although the pandas are admittedly cute.

Terrible! - if one word could describe this movie, this is it. The acting is atrocious and the storyline is non-existent. The supposed 'funny bits' will only make you cringe and you are forever waiting for the end to come. If you haven't watched it yet - save yourself the time.

OK, there are a few cute scenes with Pandas, but apart from that... Shooting the people who made this isn't good enough! But you know, I actually thought this was part 3, because they released it on VHS under that title (since 3 and 4 were never released here). Maybe if I saw the two movies in the middle it might have helped, but as I'm just watching the real part 3 (and I saw the N'Xau imitating Bruce Lee) I somehow doubt.

They should have stopped after part 2 - no more craziness. Make it good or don't make it at all!

I mean come on!

This was about a culture shock of "civilized" people not being able to survive in the desert, not about Panda preservation and running all over the Chineese Wall!