Typical Soviet thrash is just a nightmare quality. Kitsch, budget-free, disgraceful, causing a continuous flow of kringe. Americans in the 82nd shot “E.T.”, in the 84th – “Endless History”, in the 86th – “Labyrinth”, and in a poor country, meanwhile, they filmed such films. Gum-Gamov ... with decorations of foil and wood. I decided to look only for one reason - this is the case when there is a memory from early childhood, so vague that I am not even sure if it was. So you have to see and close the gestalt. Closed.
The wretchedest thing about such Soviet films is that in addition to free trash scenery, editing and special effects, they have the same garbage, worthless scripts, dialogues, acting and staging. In Western movies, children play to make it look like something real, but our children play like a bunny under a Christmas tree. And the script doesn't even suggest anything else for them. Another alien clown flies from boredom to Earth to entertain random people, and in return they pump him with Soviet morality. Why did you come? He's kind of looking for a friend because he's lonely, but he's not a Little Prince, he's got a collective, he's lived in a hedonistic environment all his life, so his motivation is questionable. The divine robot does not want its people to evolve, but gives them a staff of omnipotence and allows them to explore other planets. Where's the logic? I mean, don't get it wrong, this story is bad not because an alien is chasing strings to his planet and back, but because there's a robot tyrant that allows it. As Aristotle said, “The impossible but the probable must be preferred to the possible but the improbable.” Magic space children are not as delusional as the fact that schoolchildren sniffed with divine powder, the cops will drag to the consultation with the luminaries of science. The existence of a robot god is not as ludicrous as the fact that it can be burned in seconds by elementary questions.
In general, the lack of budget is completely understandable to me, but in such conditions, the film can be significantly improved if you do not add, but remove material from it. Combined shooting with Africa and a yacht, songs. A director who simply understood the movie and was serious about it would be able to shoot a kind of children’s art house even according to this scenario. Instead, a large series of “Yeralash” was shot.