The true embodiment of the saying that a spoonful of shit turns a barrel of honey into a barrel of shit.
If the cartoon had not spent 30 minutes in the middle of its timekeeping on an old priest, it would have been a rather funny cartoon about schoolchildren who landed in Russia during the Tatar-Mongol yoke. Jokes, bright Persians (albeit template), escape from the Tatar-Mongols (and the Khan is still a man! not a stupid villain), the search for a wizard who will send back - interesting!
This is accompanied by an angular, but acceptable drawing, in which ... Anime faces and movements! That's great!
But what is, is. The middle has gone nowhere. Just a retelling of Father Sergius' life. Boring. Nothing interesting happened at all. And the story about the fellas stood still. There's also a wretched voice over there.
And then there is also a lot of religious spirit, because with Peresvet communicate, they rub game about how robes protect better than armor, because God’s protection ... (I understand that the god of the Mongols was not weaker, since the defense of the Orthodox broke without any special effects.) Too much skew into religious chatter, which does not work on the plot.
Well, due to the fact that the schoolchildren disappeared from the plot, their re-education (became friendly to the smart fat man) looks unreliable.
That's it.
Could it be that the animator did not have enough money for his idea? And they asked the Church?
No way. Rather, the ROC paid them, and they took a draft of the old work and put in the middle of the chatter about religion. Fucking jackasses.
As a result, there is no fun of normal or religious-historical drama.