Though a success in its home of South Africa, the film also became a massive audience favorite in post-communist Eastern Europe, where it was frequently shown on television all throughout the 90s and 2000s. While the film's lengthy comedy scenes that poke fun at racism with a heavy reliance on blackface and whiteface were a target of criticism to Western viewers, such gags were more accepted in Eastern Europe, where blackface is still practiced in public media in the 2020s.
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