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Yankee Zulu

Posted by: Chris Jarvis
Date Submitted: Friday, December 15, 2000 at 07:41:34
Date Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2001 at 07:36:54

I saw this movie on a bus in Zambia, and it was so so poor I had to share it with the world.

The movie starts with two friends in Apartheid South Africa, one black, one white. The white kid falls for this girl who's really racist, and she wants him to shoot a can off the black kid's head to impress her. Anyway the kid does it, and the friend feels really betrayed.

At this point I thought it was an intelligent movie, but do not be fooled by pre-credit scenes.

The African guy, Zulu, is many years later a criminal in America, who is going to be deported back to South Africa. There of course he meets Rhino, who is a guy who is in the process of splitting up with his wife, who is the racist girl from the beginning. She is having an affair with a Neo-Nazi cop who pulls Zulu over. He escapes with Rhino, and the two go on the run.

What ensues is a farce of the most unbelievable proportions, as the Neo-Nazis, Zulu, and Rhino fight over a winning lottery ticket, with lots of bums-burnt-by-hot-poker humour.

The very worst part of this film is when Prince Charles enters the story, along with some tarty girlfriend, one of those English Royal Nannies that never really existed, and Prince William. They seem to have mistaken Prince William for Just William, and he spends most of the film in 1950s school shorts and firing a catapult.

Watch it once if only to know that such films can and do get made.


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