From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 3:29:03 PM UTC-5, Bill Anderson wrote:   
   > Same deal again this week: the kid can play games on my computer if he    
   > consents to watch a movie with me. This time I wanted something light so I    
   > went with the story of a Kalahari bushman named Xi who sees a Coke bottle    
   > fall from the sky, tossed carelessly from a passing airplane. At first it    
   > seems a wondrous gift from the gods with many uses including pounding    
   > tubers and stretching snake skins. It will even make music if you blow    
   > across the top! But soon strife erupts in his primitive family because    
   > everybody wants to use the bottle for their own needs, and when a child    
   > gets bopped over the head, Xi decides the object is evil and must be taken    
   > to the edge of the Earth and dropped over the side. On his journey, Xi    
   > encounters many wonders of the modern world including a woman so ugly her    
   > skin is white, a bumbling zoologist, inept terrorists, and a jeep that    
   > seemingly has a mind of its own. I have to say the jeep (OK, Land Rover)    
   > practically steals the movie.    
   >    
   > We had fun, the kid thought it was a great movie, and while the mixture of    
   > violence and slapstick was occasionally cringeworthy (those bullets flying    
   > around the children were real), still it made me laugh all over again. If    
   > you have never seen this one you’re really ought to give it a look.    
   >    
   > --    
   > Bill Anderson    
   >    
   > I am the Mighty Favog   
      
   Ditto.   
      
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