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The film "Yolki 2" is released

The New Year's comedy "Yolki", released last December, is one of the few domestic films that turned out to be successful from a financial point of view. According to available data, the box office receipts of this film exceeded 22 million US dollars (The Film Distributor's Bulletin indicates the amount in rubles - 701 million). Naturally, the first successful series was quickly followed by a second.

"Yolki 2" was filmed using approximately the same formula as the previous film. The filmmakers start from the idea that everyone in the world knows each other, if not personally, then indirectly, through friends and relatives. The new picture is assembled from several stories, and the heroes of some of them do not meet face to face at all, but still somehow influence each other. As in the case of the first "Yolki", different directors were involved in the production of individual short stories from the second film. True, this time they did without Timur Bekmambetov. But they invited Levan Gabriadze (Violinist from “Kin-dza-dza” and the man who staged “Freaks”) and Alexander Kott (“Brest Fortress”).

Still from the movie "Yolki 2"

Half of the characters from the first "Christmas Trees" migrated to the second film - for example, the heroes of Ivan Urgant and Sergei Svetlakov (this tandem, in fact, is one of the main attractions of both films), as well as singer Vera Brezhneva, playing singer Vera Brezhneva. To dismiss accusations that the new film copies the old one, the scriptwriters added some relevant plot devices to Yolki 2. There is, in particular, a story about how hero pilots land a faulty plane on a runway located in the middle of a forest. immediately come to mind It’s clear that the Tu-154 and Izhma .

In general, “Yolki 2” is a good-natured pre-holiday film in which there are practically no negative characters, there are only people who misunderstood each other. Negative emotions, in theory, should only be caused by a Frenchman who is allergic to our Russian New Year with all its ceiling-high Christmas trees and Olivier salads. All the rest are seemingly normal people, not so simple, but you can find a common language with everyone. "Yolki 2", generally speaking, is a film about the search for a common language, about people who wait for each other for 40 years. In the finale, naturally, the heroes meet and reunite, everyone (with the exception of the aforementioned Frenchman, who did not deserve it) finds their happiness - this is a good, family movie. But therein lies the main problem.

The fact is that “Yolki 2” ends up not being a comedy, but at best a melodrama. There are jokes, of course (Kutsenko, dressed as a red dragon, climbs a Christmas tree as tall as a multi-storey building, young people roll around in the bathtub, tangerines fly in all directions). But in general, the picture in question turned out to be rather lyrical and romantic. Or, as some would say, snotty and slobbery. It seems that the creators of the film wanted much more not to make people laugh, but to touch the viewer and squeeze a tear out of him.

Still from the movie "Yolki 2"

It is expected that at the end, tears of tenderness will flow from the viewer in streams - after all, a global all-encompassing happy ending is coming. At the same time, it is not very clear how the heroes of the film got to such an ending. The fact is that the creators of the film have very unique ideas about the passage of time and the geography of our country. As a result, a person can, for example, fly for a long, long time by plane from Moscow to Samara (if anything, the duration of such a flight is about an hour, even less), and then almost instantly return to Red Square using a helicopter.

But stop being angry. "Yolki 2", I repeat, is a harmless and joyful movie. If it doesn’t create a festive mood for someone, that’s probably the problem of the viewer, not the filmmakers. Such a viewer, of course, is a beech, has no sense of humor and generally does not like the New Year, like the same Frenchman. The rest of us will probably like "Yolki 2", and this is good, since the release of the third film in theaters is a matter of time. And then, you see, the fourth series will catch up. We will have a new New Year's tradition - every December we watch “Yolki”, just as we once watched Ryazanov’s “The Irony of Fate”.

Sergey Obolonkov

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