As a story, it's not a lot more than a cross between Finding Nemo and Madagascar, with a plot device borrowed from The Gods Must Be Crazy (of all things) -- though here imbued with a soupcon of Call Me Bwana with its notion of natives worshipping a space capsule.
Until now, the only name likely to come up was The Gods Must Be Crazy , the 1980 comic saga of a Bushman whose life is disrupted by a Coke bottle tossed from a plane.
That Gibson opens the movie with a series of sequences revolving around the natives' wacky exploits - a la The Gods Must Be Crazy - surely doesn't help matters, as even the most patient viewer will be left scratching their head at the inclusion of such hijinks.
That Gibson opens the movie with a series of sequences revolving around the natives' wacky exploits - a la The Gods Must Be Crazy - surely doesn't help matters, as even the most patient viewer will be left scratching their head at the inclusion of such hijinks.