The promotion of this cartoon has already surprised. Trailers of our cartoons often consisted of interesting cutting, without much frills - they used to show working materials at the festival and surprise people. The directors thought that was enough. But the producers decided to play small. The second time they decided not to trifle when they made a stereo. Well, then according to the American template... according to the template, but not very much. In the cartoon there are several western moves (and Kazbek, and two clowns among which a pug, and a rat Venya, an obvious clone of Remi, and even a raven similar to Pied Piper and fleas of the Arrow), but he is still Russian. Directors did not live at that time, but quite well portrayed the era, almost without blunders. This is, of course, a Soviet dream, as our grandmothers draw it. The people in the cartoon are secondary. But textures are divine. This is not special to you with its three parameters. Animals want to pet. Their facial expressions are extremely alive. The chase scenes are gripping. And humor is multifaceted (often he noticed himself as the only one laughing in the room - there were a lot of children with their parents). What's Venya doing with jokes? "It seems to me that this is a pioneer camp on the Chinese border." Or a translation of John F. Kennedy's speech. It was a wonderful hit with the votes. Even the cat psychiatrist performed by Yushkevich is extremely successful.
Of course, there are a lot of deviations from the story, but this is not a true story, and Belka's son writes this in front of the zoo daughter Kennedy. But do not worry about the little things and enjoy the cartoon. This is not a cast from America like the others, this is our real cartoon, for the whole hundred.
The plot is obviously stupid, since intelligent animals are suddenly moved from their animal state to a high-tech space, where they behave in an appropriate high-tech way, i.e. with a full understanding of what and how to do. Kindergarten level.
As a tribute to history, the cartoon was worthy of its embodiment in such a form. But the plot should be thought through more thoroughly and adapted closer to the possible reality. I am not against anthropomorphic abilities in cartoon animals, but when these abilities exist in an unlimited rubber framework, it turns into mush and nonsense.
Unfortunately, at the level of the plot, I did not feel the spiritual joy of the basic grand event - a successful flight into space. Instead, everything is flooded with some dreams and love snot from scratch. Dialogues and replicas are most often at the level of the “downito-chromosome”. It's disgusting a lot of Hollywood stuff.
Historical references in the cartoon tried to make funny, but it turned out bad. For adults, the topic looks obvious nonsense, and children references do not say anything.
The characters are painted ugly, with exaggerated body parts. Only the rat turned out well (in general, this is the most successful character). Generally acceptable, but the sense of proportion in deformations is not observed. The 3D-world is poorly drawn if you look closely; it would be better if the cartoon was in 2D.
Conclusion. I looked it up. The expectations were not met, to say the least. Cartoon on the category of children 5-10 years, who also do not understand many references.
The cartoon begins to cause a feeling of boredom and the desire to look at how much is left, literally in 5 minutes.
Although the idea is good - and the scope for creativity was limitless.
But no, it all starts with the fact that the son of a heroic Russian dog is presented to the American president. Why is there such a liner? To speak English, and was it possible to place a joke with the translation of “Russian stupid dog” into “mysterious Russian soul”?
Here, by the way, the budget of this cartoon comes across – 3.5 million euros. Really?
It would be better to spend on space exploration.
In general, it seems that the schoolboys were given a task - to do something for the day of cosmonautics, they did something, with claims to competition Pixar (funny even read about it).
Story and heroes. Remember the ice age? Squirrel and nut? There's a crow with cheese. Original.
Squirrel - OK, circus, with his own character. An arrow is a set of situational events and feelings.
Cartoon for children 5 years old – it will do. Adults do not even need to delve into it. Something about space, about dogs that replaced the battery in outer space.
It is difficult to pull on a cartoon about friendship, but you can attract such an idea only by the ears.
After the main action of the cartoon, the plot generally carried to distant distances: ridiculous, ugly, tedious, and with questions “why is this?”
And in general, let’s be honest, the world is already a meter from the main characters as if there is no such thing as it is empty, filled with nothing, there are even people in it, but these are generally separately painted faceless freaks.
There's Venya's rat. He's good. Funny, purposeful (and with money I am muskrat), and lives in an impressive place on VDNKh, but drowns in the general swamp of this grayish (I mean the color scheme) mush. And then there's the "scientist cat," the psychiatrist, and apparently highly skilled. Here are my 2 points still give secondary characters, there are just two.
What else is positive? In the credits real shots of those years, those dogs and those people.
2 out of 10
This film can be considered historical for the cartoons of our country. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the flight of Sputnik-5, a rather good product appeared.
Plot:
That's one of the downsides. It is made as a story, and, I think, did not fit into the format. For example, in my opinion, the moment of the launch of Sputnik-5 was scant. I shouldn’t have been afraid to make the movie longer, but I didn’t have time.
Details:
The studio was small by the time it was released, and the quality would hardly have been higher. But at least they tried very hard with 3D, and we don’t see, for example, “foot in the air” and other small errors.
Voices:
The voices are pretty good, but they changed later, which may not be very good for those who saw this cartoon, first watching Mischievous Family, like me.
Outcome:
It should be noted that cartoons of Russian production can not be compared with the works of Disney or DreamWorks. These are different levels and different experiences, so abstract from foreign giants.
I believe that all cartoons can be divided into 3 categories: for adults, family, for children. The continuation of the cartoon “Squirrel and the Arrow” I can confidently attribute to the last, that is, children’s category. Quite simple and understandable jokes involving humanized animals never left children indifferent. This time there was a child’s laughter in the room. I can’t help but note that this contributed to creating a special atmosphere in the hall. First of all, "...Moon Adventures" will appeal to younger children (focusing on the age of elementary school and younger). And here immediately I must say thank you to the writers for the fact that they did not forget about the adults who accompany their children to view. There is also room for adult jokes. No, no, not vulgar, but understandable only to older people.
And since we are talking about the plot, I hasten to reassure those who are not familiar with the first part of the cartoon - if your acquaintance with the cartoon Squirrel and Arrow began with the second part, there is nothing wrong with this. I didn't feel any discomfort for a second. Moreover, at the beginning of the viewer is very succinctly introduced to the course of things.
The plot of the new adventures of shaggy astronauts is based on real events, but still is fantasy. All the characters have their own unique character, each associated with a certain storyline. We will talk about family values, the first childhood love, patriotism, and feelings for things gained by honest work. All in all, different. The confrontation between Russia and America over outer space is very funny. Funny and neat.
The voices for the characters were great. Especially note Evgeny Mironov (Venya’s voice) – this is an absolute merger and correspondence, as well as Timur Rodriguez (Bonnie’s monkey) – as ambiguous as it may sound, but it seems to me that his inner world absolutely corresponds to the character, as energetic, ambitious and confident.
Animation is also at a pretty good level, finally Russian cartoons moved away from the classic drawing. It’s not very clear why it was necessary to make a cartoon in 3D format, as it seemed to me, there were quite few reasons for this. But what to do, these are the trends.
If you compare “Squirrel and Arrow: Lunar Adventures” with our animation for the last 10 years, you can see a positive trend. First, the history of our side was approached with respect (remember the Russian heroes, who were once made characters deprived of intelligence). Secondly, this picture is not afraid to show children, for their distorted perception of reality you can not worry. Third, improved animation.
Summing up, I can advise you with full responsibility to take your children, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, grandchildren and granddaughters to the cinema and have a good time with them.
Here we go.
In general, this cartoon is very pleasant and positive. One of the few good Russian cartoons. This is what you can see with the whole family. Laugh at the jokes of the rat Veni, cry over the "star dog" & #39; and get a good portion of fun.
Plot. A funny story, albeit with blunders like extinguishing a fire with a sausage from a tube, or getting dogs into the open space! Although everything is quite predictable, there are no strong plot twists, something so special, most of the chips are taken from already a hundred times watched American cartoons.
The animation is more impressive than in 'Our Masha'. Thank you for that.
Characters. Squirrel is shown to be the perfect heroine, although I think she is a bitch and a bore. The arrow was kind of put on the background, as ' not a very good heroine'. And in the mouth of the Arrow many times in the film put phrases that will certainly lower her in the eyes of children, and Squirrel saves her several times in the film, says the phrase ' One for all and all for one!' etc. For a long time I could not understand what gender the shooter.
Venya. My favorite character number 1. If a good joke sounds in a movie, it's said by rats.
Kazbek. Favorite character number 2. I really liked the love line between him and Squirrel.
And also 'bad'---a mug and a bulldog, and a psychiatrist cat, two fleas in the end! The characters of the second plan liked the main ones.
Music. The song is about the rain.
Outcome: Yes, we are still a long way from Disney and others like him, but we can already see that Russian animation is not as flawed as I thought before.
7 out of 10
On New Year’s Eve, I watched this movie. It’s amazing and I recommend it to kids.
Characters: All beautiful and colorful.
Squirrel is the most colorful character of the cartoon. Its prototype is a real-life breedless dog Squirrel, which, paired with another dog - Strelka, became a living creature, first safely returned to Earth, after a long orbital flight at the time.
The arrow is the most sentimental character who also has a real prototype.
The result: Of course, the cartoon was successful, looks very good and interesting.