Not at all, “Kiss!” – Kommersant

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“The best day” appeared under gooseberry Zory Curtain year showed the commercial failure of the Russian cinema. The fact come to pass if the last hope of the season and there will be “The Best Day” as the best film for hire, reflects ANDREW block.

Grounds to storm a lot of cash. Even with the advent of “Kiss!” it is clear that our cinema has come a man capable to regain lost the conquest of the Soviet comedy. I do not disappoint, which is not often the case with sequels, and “Bitter! 2″, although, of course, did not find very much new breath. New Breath promised “the best day” and almost fulfilled the promise. In this film, there is much to see and hear: that there are at least sparkling clips put to a karaoke hits and accompanied by a caption – to people right in the room is excited and sang. And not only domestic hits, including “The Best Day”, “Mama Luba” and “Zelenoglazoe taxi”, but “I Will Survive”, a surprisingly organic transferred to the Russian peyzanskuyu bucolic.

to the list of advantages and it is necessary to classify the frame story, borrowed from Ostrovsky’s comedy “Old friend is better than two new ones,” with its malice against the bourgeois class. Well, first of all, of course, performing the composition. Gooseberries like no one felt the change in the media situation – that film actors are no longer mythological gods and Lightbringer stars, and their place was taken by more characters in my own way, “the box.” And the director calls in “Kiss!” Sergei Svetlakova play himself, and “The Best Day” for the lead role of the archetypal traffic cop Petit Vasyutin invites Dmitry Nagiyev. Poor but proud, touchy, but easily appeased Olga bride, the hero, a gas station cashier, Queen portrays a familiar at the same “Kiss!” Yulia Alexandrova. However, relying on the new rulers of doom, gooseberries – shrewdness – pulls the train of the traditional, seemingly quite archaic system of values. Hence, in the film there is a pair of Inna Churikov – Mikhail Boyarsky in the images of the progenitors of the protagonist, the Imperial Remnant, though adapted to the particular business. Incidentally, in the coordinates of the Soviet kinovselennoy the two is not too mounted: Boyarsky was a character then mass culture and the duty wide fame to the young television Churikov same at that time embodied the high art of theater and cinema, but now, in the era of repertory, they look quite sung a duet.

In short, all the prerequisites of success in “the best day” laid. Already there are voices claiming that it happened here – the expected fusion of styles Ryazanov and Hyde, melodrama and comedy, slapstick and lyricism, realism and eccentrics. And so I would like to agree with it, but the inner feeling to the end does not allow. Perhaps the fact that gooseberries took over another feat on a national scale – to revive the musical. “The best day” in their most inspired moments like “Girls of Rochefort”: provincial life turns into a music festival, the townsfolk from the influx of feelings sang and start to dance, and it’s actually very cute, cute, folk and patriotic.

But in another moment of euphoria pierces doubt: maybe it’s not, “Young Girls of Rochefort” and “Kuban Cossacks” – the Soviet musical swan song? Backed with a slight touch of irony panorama birthmarks spaces appeal to simplicity, “White Sun of the Desert”, but, alas, innocence since left many of us. Despite the light “hints of corruption,” the image of the main character tries to mimic consciousness untroubled quiet (fraught with violent excesses) an alcoholic, did not responsible for the chaos reigning on the Russian roads. Even more significant is the appearance of the hero in the form of Airborne Discharge: meet their own. And his tender-hearted bride and Crank-parents and their environment so lean on nostalgic keys that all ahead on the turn only negative heroine razluchnitsa – stopping pop star Alina Whispers in the soloist of the “Silver” Olga Seryabkina. In contrast to the poisonous “Kiss!”, The popular characters of “The Best Day” too sugary, sincere passion of the performers saves the matter only partly, laughter gives way to the supplications style “grotesque” is transformed into light.

Nothing criminal: in fact in front of us Christmas comedy, replacing worn out “Elkam” from the studio “Basileus.” Producer Timur Bekmambetov’s strategy is visible to the naked eye, although gooseberries did everything to get out of the situation with minimal losses. These losses can and do not notice, or to enroll them in the discharge of acquisitions: how cleverly artizirovana pop banality of life, shows how great a fatal immutability of Russian spiritual braces as cleverly turned inside out Christmas conformist genre.

All this is true, but it is a half-truth: who actually need the full? Recall again Ostrovsky: truth – good, but happiness – better. And if the audience poured into the Christmas room of laughter, will not have much importance, he will see in the film gooseberry complimentary portrait or caricature.