Tsar (Leonid Yarmolnik) plans to donate his daughter Zabava (Ksenia Traister from the second season of “Food Block”) for the son of a rich boyar Polkan (Fedor Dobronravov)handsome Polkan Polkanovich (Andrey Burkovsky) and through this union we will close the gaps in the kingdom’s budget. Sailor Ivan intervenes in the situation (Alexander Metelkin from the series “Fandorin. Azazel”)The one who first saw the fun in a dream, then in reality and instantly fell in love.
The young man sets out in search of wealth despite falling out with a wealthy rival. During his journey, he meets extraordinary creatures who try to help him: The Brave Nightingale Robber. (Anna Ukolova)melancholic Vodyanoy (Sergey Garmash) and sinister Grandmothers-Hedgehog (Danila Kozlovsky).
In fact, it is a cliché and terrible bad manners to accuse the authors of a strange work of art with sensitive feelings towards psychoactive substances, but here, as they say, there is no choice.
In Ilya Uchitel’s “The Flying Ship”, a live-action version of Harry Bardin’s cartoon of the same name based on a Russian folk tale (a magnificent 18-minute musical on the theme “We played in capitalism and that’s enough”), the corresponding subtext is revealed is having a hard time. Actor Metelkin spends half the film searching for treasure and in the process wanders into an overgrown forest full of glowing mushrooms, Traister is happy with coconuts and is generally enviably energetic, Burkovsky opens a branch of Mutabor in the royal palace (everyone came to those doors), Kozlovsky of the hut on chicken legs “at full speed,” he jokes.
Of course, no one condemns anyone, especially since such an approach cannot be called foreign – Bardin’s original cartoon is a prominent example of Soviet psychedelia. And let’s be honest: In moments when the new “Flying Ship” reaches the peak of maximum stubbornness, it turns out to be endearing in its own right. However, otherwise this is a rather unbearable picture, as if combining two sub-trends in the current wave of expensive family films – adaptations of Russian folk tales and live-action remakes of Soviet animated musicals (the latter clearly borrowed from Disney).
The first team at the box office in the fall was the film “At the Command of the Pike” with the brawler Nikita Kologriv in the title role – an absurd and stupid picture, but it was worth doing if only for the sake of it. For an artist named Ershova to play Pike. For the sake of a highly entertaining self-revelation: the stranger is evil anyway, but we’ll play “Aladdin”. In general, it will suit the ear.
The second camp on the screens during the New Year holidays, ideologically neutralized and therefore not evoking such strong emotions, was represented by Alexei Nazhny’s “Bremen Town Musicians”, an adaptation of rock and roll cartoons from the footsteps of a fairy tale. By the Brothers Grimm. In total, both films earned almost 5.5 billion rubles, so there are no big fears for the Flying Ship’s box office.
You should be more concerned about the mental health of the people who will be funding this cash. Makeup is still everywhere (Teacher Jr.’s inspirations apparently include the horror series “Wrong Turn”: the Babka the Hedgehogs played by Kozlovsky look a lot like the “gourmets” in the West Virginia woods), but when we see the monstrous costumes, like “Guardian of the Galaxy” We remember the phenomena that one would least want to remember.
The dance numbers are shot with masterful melancholy, and the soundtrack conveys the heartwarming atmosphere of a drunken taxi ride in a southern resort, and the radio plays ungodly – no, it can’t be turned off, the button is broken. It’s hard to believe, but the composer Savva Rozanov managed to practically destroy the great works of Yuri Entin and Maxim Dunaevsky; for some reason Leonid Agutin’s “Hop-hey la-la-ley”, “At Dawn” were also added to it. Nike Borzov’s band “Alliance” and “Riding a Star” (although obviously it’s about a horse and cocaine). The sound component as a whole is not devoid of interesting ideas (for example, making the blues from “Vodyanoy’s Song” is humorous in its own way), but at the performance level the film is designed in such a way that something will flow through everyone one way or another while watching it.
With the exception of Polina Gagarina, who sits in a cage for almost the entire film, but towards the end she frees herself and, even worse, sings, Metelkin and Tracer in the main roles seem to be the weakest link in the acting ensemble. Without them, everything seems to bloom: Kozlovsky and Ukolova grimace delightfully, Garmash is comically melancholic, Yarmolnik and Dobronravov tremble charmingly in a double program – in an ideal situation, I would like a movie entirely about the last two, it would be fun Political satire.
But our situation is far from ideal, and “The Flying Ship,” for all its dazzling diversity, is a document of the period. The producers emphasize that filming was completed before February 24, 2022 (which feels like a decade ago; there is no other way to explain the “Air Horn” sound effect when Burkovsky’s character appears) and therefore claims regarding individual actors will not be accepted. accepted.
In practice, this means that the names of the unrecognizable Kozlovsky and Ksenia Rappoport, whose face is hidden under a mask, are simply erased from the film (such is Schrödinger’s cinema) and are only miraculously present in Burkovsky’s original. Form on screen and in credits (and you can still just type) “Domhnall Gleeson”no one would suspect).
However, everything here is equally a blunder: in fact, the flying ship is mentioned only at the end of the second act – and it serves not as an end, but as a means, and hence the meaning of the name “Flying Ship” is irrevocably lost.
On the other hand, the posters mostly say “Flying Ship”; Maybe the soft sign has also fallen out of favor, it’s a bit hard to follow. Even so, it is desirable to fill the resulting hole with another letter (Russian) from the very end of the alphabet, but for now we can only dream of printing such a variant. Oh, if this dream were real, what a life would come!
Release date in Russia: March 21, 2024
Duration: 100 minutes
Manager: Ilya Uchitel
Casting: Alexander Metelkin, Ksenia Traister, Andrey Burkovsky, Danila Kozlovsky, Ksenia Rappoport, Anna Ukolova, Sergey Garmash, Leonid Yarmolnik, Fedor Dobronravov, Polina Gagarina
Where to see: to the cinema
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