Description
The Tsar is having his daughter Zabava marry a charmingly handsome and a handsomely charming Paul, a rich heir and a foreign fancy pants. However, it's a bit of a challenge, since Zabava wants a marriage of love, not of calculation. Her unexpected encounter with sailor Ivan, a simpleton yet an honest and endearing guy, messes up Paul's plans of snatching the crown. Deeply in love with the princess, Ivan enlists help from the residents of an enchanted forest to build a Flying Ship which would then take him and his beloved away. The brave sailor is in for serious confrontation with the sneaky Paul, who's using dark magic to bring his unwanted opponent down. However, true love is going to win this battle: with the evil mastermind punished, Ivan and Zabava step aboard the magic Flying Ship and set sail towards a new common dream of theirs.
It's just not very good, although children probably should like the film: a colorful picture, bright costumes, cheerful music and lack of common sense.
But everything is spoiled by just a miserable scenario, the most expensive modernization of everything around, starting from costumes and ending with rap beats, thank you for at least doing without rap itself. The costumes are bright, colorful, it is clear that a lot of work has been done on them, but they are so tasteless, they have such a bad style, if there is one at all, that it would be better if they took the deshman from Ali baba.
The songs are all badly covered, some just start off off-topic and just to start, they hardly trace the motives of past songs, which is why new ones look more profitable against their background. The voices themselves are at the same time... Normal ones. The ears don't bleed. I can't say that the actors sang badly, they just had to sing so that the song doesn't come out very good.
Despite the long cron, the characters are poorly revealed, what the fuck, fuck knows. The princess is generally a beaten-up nitakusya, which at the same time has no reason to behave like this, she is just an empty nitakusya, because now it is fashionable, apparently, to expose female characters like this. This is a character function, no more. Paul and the witch have even more disclosure than G.
The love line starts so head-on that I just wonder why they didn't squirm in bed in those first five minutes from the beginning of the movie. Chemistry is zero. I don't understand why Vanya fell in love with this colorful chicken. At the same time, his line in the forest came out much better than the line with her, at least she didn't want to punch her face in.
Modernization, again, is very painful to the eye and gets knocked out of the film. That is, our sailors are literally practically in modern clothes with ordinary backpacks, and the kingdom at the same time in these wide dresses with a twist on the Middle Ages. The palace is being renovated and DRILLED there, there are neon signs and mushrooms in the forest, music, again, with dance beats, a ball, which then literally begins a disco in a nightclub... There are very few places where it looks organic.
Well, or maybe I already don't understand something in my life, since a man who plays a female role absolutely seriously should be perceived by us without any questions. And if it were a new Persian, it would be perceived normally. You never know what rules magical creatures have. But these are canonical characters, and it would be possible to be more respectful with them.
The robber Nightingale, for example, is new and although I do not understand why it is needed in principle except for the performance of Vanya's sad song, he came to me. If you remove the modern purely biker rear-view mirrors glued to the leather jacket, it just has a chic design. It's almost not painted and it looks so good, it was really nice to look at it, it came out very good.
In general, it's fucking sad to watch such films. It seems that there are crumbs of good, but in a ton of stupidity all around, it just sinks in. There were even a couple of good jokes.
The children in the hall were sooo bored, by the way. Because it doesn't cling at all. He is not crazy enough to captivate them with his bright costumes, but also not exciting enough internally for them to be corny interested in finding out what's next.
How annoying is the character restriction here, and how can I write long reviews?(
, it's better to review the cartoon)
of the pros: there were sometimes good jokes and the water looks good
Yes, I will highlight unnecessary modernization and music as a minus.
But the yozhki's money is of course creep
2. I do not understand the motives of gg: when will they show us meaningful love, and not love at first sight, because of which people who are essentially strangers to each other tear their navels and risk their lives for the sake of another? Why didn't the princess fall in love with Paul at first sight with the same light hand? He's not bad-looking and behaves decently.
3. And what kind of casting of actors is this: the princess is 22 years old, Ivan is 31 years old, Paul is 40 years old. Like it's necessary to teach children that it's okay when the groom is old enough to be a father?) and I'm not talking about the Bremen ones at all, there's a 40-year-old convict and a teenage princess in the image.
4. I liked the characters from the forest:
and the nightingale - where did he come from at all, I don't remember him from the cartoon 😅;
and the grandmother-hedgehogs- I was not confused that the man played, I liked the images and it was funny to look at them, but the main song of the grandmothers was redone so that if I did not remember by heart the song from the original cartoon, I would not have understood what they sang there in the alterations;
And the watermark image and graphics are good, and the song went in, it turned out mentally, I believed that he was a lonely character.
5. There is a bit of trouble with the script - there are so many holes that you just plug yourself into an internal critic and try to accept this picture as it is. But again, much better than the Bremen ones. Soryan, but the Bremen left a scar on my soul of a movie fan.
6. In general, during the viewing, I no longer wanted to hit the entire film crew, even in moments I enjoyed it and already better than previously released fairy tales (Bremen and at the behest of the pike), but there is a place to grow.