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Unintentionally funny scenes


I know that a film about the bloody birth pangs Africa experienced when gaining freedom from oppressive colonial rule in the 1960s isn't exactly supposed to be slapstick comedy. But I just thought these three scenes were funny:

1. The white lady stripping for the room of African men: She goes up to this one guy who looks slightly more interested in her than a zombie and says "Would you like to take these off" (i.e. the two little cone things covering her boobies). He takes them off and just stares at them in his hands while she walks away going "Thank you!" That guy wouldn't know what to do if he walked into one of the strip joints in Showgirls, that's fer sher.

2. The section about South Africa: The slo-mo shots of the girls running towards the beach in their bikinis, followed by what seems like five minutes of slo-mo shots of them jumping on trampolines. So THAT'S where "The Man Show" got the idea for "Girls On Trampolines."!!! My respect for Adam Corolla's knowledge of cinema just grew exponentially.

3. Doesn't that band that plays right after all those African women film that scene for the Zulu movie just ROCK!!! I would love their CD!!! They just kind of roll their instruments out of the tent and start JAMMIN!!!

Pimps in the front, hos in the back, and chumps in the trunk, brutha!

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haha i agree, while there was a lot of really good stuff here, some of it was pretty comical, esp most of the capetown scenes.

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