The film is not bad, but noticeably weaker than the cult "Hunting". While the characters are still charismatic and funnyly goofy, and their dialogue is still fun, there are several reasons why the quality of the picture has fallen:
- Finn Raivo only appears at the end and utters a few sentences. But it was on him that the first film largely held, it was with him that Kuzmich’s dynamics were built. Here Kuzmich is forced to behave strangely with everyone in a row.
- The general was almost discharged from the plot. What's he doing in the movie? Swimming, then sleeping, then bathing again, making friends sculpt dumplings and eventually fishing alone, not taking part in the events of the film. This is a typical example of how the sequel grabs the iconic character of the first part, but can not give him a role.
- In the eyes climbs quite intrusive advertising of vodka and dumplings of certain brands. At the same time, vodka at least matters in the plot, but dumplings cause complete bewilderment.
The film is about losing 15 cases of vodka and trying to get them back. But their value is strangely overstated. I estimated on the calculator their cost for modern money, it turned out from 30 to 50 rubles, and this is of course money, but not so big that for the sake of this to unwind the military on a secret submarine to violate the border and climb onto a private territory sealed by the police. It's insane. I don't.
These were major flaws that caused the sequel to suffer at baseline. Some things in it just don't work. Also, a couple of smaller oddities:
- A sailor of a warship doesn't know his officers in the face?
- Did the captain of the submarine know he only had fuel halfway?
- There is a ridiculous dialogue between Kuzmich and the prosecutor about mermaids. The author who wrote it is clearly lost in three pine trees. The dialogue begins with the fact that Kuzmich does not believe in the story of the mermaid, but literally through the phrase bends about the fact that he has long abandoned materialism and mermaids exist. And the prosecutor asks about the mermaids and asks to introduce them, while claiming that he is a materialist. Do you understand anything? Either the author himself did not understand what he was saying, or at some stage there was a stupid editing.
In general, the comedy leaves a pleasant impression, but it does not feel the same integrity and vital Russian philosophy as in the first part. The events shown have become much less plausible and motivated, and are happening simply because they are.