It’s probably the oldest movie I’ve seen from start to finish. I am aware that at one time it was considered very good and was Stalin’s favorite film, but I live in the wrong time and can only evaluate it objectively.
- In the relationship of the main characters do not believe a second. They do not appreciate their love, easily part because of utter nonsense, because of cheap quarrels, then reconcile again, quarrel again. Is that funny what's supposed to be? If I could still believe in their rivalry, then their reconciliation, absolutely spontaneous, no longer exists.
- Events with ships and the interaction of teams I found completely incomprehensible. Even on fresh tracks, I couldn't tell myself why and at what point the teams got mixed up and made up. The scenes need to be revisited several times to link how the two crews travelled on three ships.
- The main turn with how the hurricane neatly brought scattered leaflets with a song, every single one to Moscow, and there they were collected and instantly made the song popular - I do not believe.
- In the end, the boss calls all Dun from Melkovodsk, including one, which is a child. Where did they come from? They couldn’t bring any more people for a week, and there was no child on the ship.
- You have to listen to the whole movie singing the same song.
- Because of the ancient technology of sound recording, every word flashes, it is very difficult to understand speech, and the lyrics are simply impossible.
- The colored version looks bad. The colors are very unnatural: the water is deliberately blue, although in the rivers it is mainly brown or black, the faces are clay-yellow, in general the eye does not feel confidence in any shade, the artificiality is visible in everything.
Alas, for all the merits of the film at one time I, as a viewer from the 21st century, it was difficult, ashamed and uninteresting to watch. The acting of the actors is completely unnatural, a lot of gluing in the middle of the scenes, besides the film spent too much time admiring dubious ships, and from the promised talent contest showed very little, almost nothing at all. The hero almost immediately, without a fight, was awarded the prize - the competition was replaced by curiosity.