Their corrupt Amazon has a series sucked out of a finger... more precisely from an album. It's called Stories from the Loop. Our spiritual film searches decided to give birth to a series from a viral “blogger” video.
In fact, the success of the videos "Birchpunk"* was in a good graphic sense the fusion of Russian reality, as it is represented inside the Moscow Ring Road and computer graphics. In the end, we got a beautiful analogue of “Futurama”, so far without much plot. All right, look.
The series already has a plot, no matter what, but slicked from the masterpieces of world fiction, from Star Wars to Avatar. This is how I would like to see our fiction used. However, the short sighting of a journey through the solar system, where each series is a planet or an asteroid with its own world, refers to the “Internships” and “The Way to Almatea” by the Strugatskys. But everywhere there is the same Sow, or in our case almost Rashka. Well, then you know.
But we still got Futurama, not the aforementioned masterpieces of domestic science fiction.
Although the creators did not really soar in their universe to create a serious breakthrough in technology and everyday life. It is Russian and even late Soviet. But these are the requirements of the Birchpunk genre. So don't be naughty.
And that's about the merits of the show. He also has some sort of plot. There's no telling the stories from the Loop. There are places to think about. Here you and the bastard, in the body of a robot, becoming a man, and an asteroid living under sanctions, and much, much more.
But the disadvantages of the series include their unwillingness to pay actors. Outside the main characters, everyone else plays clumsy. Sergey Mikhachev is a well-known farmer. The ubiquitous Burunov voice-over robot is also good. But the extras are actually wooden. That's what lubricates the whole impression. Well, the desire to make money on the second season with a spectacular Clifhanger, too. What I didn't like about the '90s was the cliff and you don't know what happened next. Although in some places, Clifhanger himself was quite logical. Sort of like Schrödinger's ending. But still.
It's a good show. I'll wait for the sequel.
“Cybervillage” at first glance looks like a set of jokes about the legacy of the Soviet era, to which the technical bells and whistles were screwed and something worked, but absurd. And, well, that’s the main point of the series. But if you look closely, these jokes make the series a good cyberpunk - just not the way you used to see it.
Cyberpunk is about how technology evolves, not the person. In the world of “cybervillages” this principle is observed in the form of “take the usual, add technology, but do not change the principles”, which gives rise to funny images like the mail pigeon-quadcopter, the clothing market of planetary scale, ship-yacht and so on.
Because of this, a large role in the series is played by the visual – it is through him that images are transmitted in many trifles, the essence of which remains the same: technology is developing, but the world still clings to the old. The fact that all these grotesque images, reminiscent of the naive fantasies of retrofuturism, made very beautiful graphics, in itself becomes a joke.
Some jokes, however, strike so aptly that the Cyber Village can be called topical satire. One such joke plays a big role in the plot and becomes quite a serious warning that the technology of pleasure can bring a great threat. Some jokes were especially pleasant to see.
In short, Cyber Village is an album of caricatures about human nature that changes with difficulty. Caritacur is sometimes accurate, sometimes bullying, but funny. The authors do not offer solutions to the stated problems, do not put forward their position, but simply offer to study their world and laugh. They did it.
P.S. Great respect to Burunov for the colorful voiceover.
Fucking show, bro! Cyber Village, 2023 is a true work of art! My score is 10 out of 10, no options! The series is amazing, not one boring second! The plot, fuck, is just stumped with surprise! You think you know what's going to happen, and he comes in and surprises you. Way to go, writers! And the cast, well, is just a bomb! They take and present the characters so that you just stick to the screen! I can’t help but note the high professionalism of each actor, they are just tearing at the pussy! And the effects, I don't have words! Honestly, the record guys, what are you smoking? The graphics are so fucking real, it makes my head spin! The sound, the music, is also at a very high level! You listen to me and you're straight-up ears! All in all, Cyber Village 2023 is a series I will recommend to all my friends! Sorry for the obscene words and harsh language, but the show is too fucking restrained! In my opinion, that's ten out of ten, cocks!
“Cyber Village” was born in 2020 as a joke. In a short video on YouTube, which attracts the attention of high-quality countonium Sergey Chikhachev in the image of a Martian farmer records a promotional video, inviting new cohabitants to his red planet. The topic so came that later there were several more videos, and this year a full-fledged series for 10 episodes of 20-30 minutes was released, without strict timekeeping. I watched the series and, let me tell you, I was very pleased with it.
The most important thing is visual processing. The authors, obviously, realized that on the field of “Star Wars” and “Avatars” they have nothing to do and went from the opposite, doing so bad that it turned out perfectly. In their world we know cars (but flying), clothes, houses. Yes, in general, everything, but at the same time all sorts of sequins, effervescents and crickets are screwed up everywhere, giving familiar species a touch of futurism. And the more absurd they look, the better. Take at least the rings of Saturn, turned into an endless market, in the best traditions of “Gardener”, on which it was all filmed. Or an interplanetary train, assembled from Russian Railways platzkat cars, but from all sorts of interesting angles and traveling along clean energy tracks. But what I like even more visual processing is attention to detail, because a variety of jokes and Easter eggs on everything from Soviet films to Internet memes are found everywhere, just have time to notice.
Separately, we should mention the robot Robogosin. He's awesomely empathic and memorable, with that rectangular head and active eyebrow gesture. In a good half of Disney paintings, the characters are less attractive – there is definitely a respect for the creators. He and Chikhachev formed a great duet, they want to empathize.
The plot is a win-win classic road movie, where the characters are forced to travel from point A to point B, but fate brings them in the process to B, G, D and F (most often), and they courageously confront Themis and eventually get where they need to go. But still the plot here is not the main thing, although it is not bad, more important is the local content of each individual series, each scene. Because the Soviet entourage, recognizable since childhood, immediately gives +100500 to nostalgic affection, and native village birches, chickens, goats, villages, meadows and fields add the same amount. Yes, on the one hand, the directors ridicule all this, but on the other they do it as carefully as possible, kindly, without mockery. And that's really good.
Bad stuff! Yes, there is, it is not a paid review. The level of kringe is sometimes dangerously high, approaching the maximum permissible mark. If you’re a snob with a poker face and a love of art house, run as far as you can and don’t even look toward the Cyber Village. Grafonius, although I praise him, it is worth admitting that he is sometimes poor, even in comparison with earlier rollers. Apparently, to make everything as expensive as possible, there were not enough shekels. Everything else is fine, to my liking.
Probably, not many people will like my review, but surprisingly, I did not “go” this series from the word at all. From the very first episode, I struggled with the desire to turn off this midnight nonsense until the third, but around the middle of the third series, I actually realized that my brain was melting. And it doesn't melt with delight, unfortunately.
I must say that I have a very good attitude towards Russian contemporary cinema and believe in the best, and, in general, I love cinema and comedies.
But I truly believe that in any picture there must be several aspects connected together. Here I see a beautiful picture, this is, yes, special effects at a good level, a fairly standard recent theme of combining the village / fairy tale / simplicity and something technological / space. But beyond that, there must be some meaning. On the one hand, he really is - the inventor was deceived by his comrade, and now takes away his farm, in fact, a dream. BUT. As if to reveal the topic hammered a large carnation into the wall, which hung special effects.
It would be fine if there was an action - but it is not, by the middle of the first series the abundance of special effects and strange things already leads to internal dissonance. Everything we're used to is unusual. Overall, it looks like a crazy person.
The series is overloaded with special effects from and to. And really, if it were just a two-hour movie, I think it would be better.
In general, the abundance of high ratings of the film confirms my opinion that many people like the so-called "brain gum" if it is neon pink in color and in good resolution, but the taste of this gum is not interested in anyone, the maximum flavor that was added to it.
5 out of 10
I would put lower, to be honest, 5 purely for brightness and idea, everything else on a three.
It started out as a very unusual series of small, jute videos for five to ten minutes, and then became the full-fledged series that was waiting for. Because the videos touched the heart and fell in love, it seems, everyone, becoming for some time a real event in the Russian Internet. Then the authors began to invite “stars” like Kharlamov and, sorry Kringe, Toples (and Bad did not fit well into the entourage, although it was nice to see him), very clumsy to push advertising, and then the videos became stupidly advertising something. However, in the series about the hospital, the authors managed to rehabilitate.
Could they pull out that lamp atmosphere already in the full series?
And yes and no.
The biggest problem with the series is the script. In general, the story is interesting, albeit secondary. But in detail... Often the usual logic or logic of the whole world or situation is sacrificed to jokes or pity or just a plot sucked out of a cyber finger that leads nowhere beyond one episode. Often jokes are tortured and secondary. Here we can say that often these are references and their really huge number, but you will not be satisfied with references alone.
There are good moments and jokes, even excellent ones, and there are quite a good number of them.
But stupidity and illogicality are more often striking.
You believe in what is happening, you do not believe at all. Especially when they start talking about God in such futuristic scenery. Even a comedy has to have an internal logic, at least within a single scene! There is a strong sense that half of the writers did well and the other half did poorly. And then these two halves made the series. Writers and producers of the series, by the way, a lot, apparently, this is where all the problems grow. Seven Rows have Robobosin without an eye.
Another problem is completely ignoring any physical laws for the sake of an epic picture of something from the 90s in a futuristic environment. It was in the Yutup series as well. The only problem is that what looked normal in the framework of a five-minute amateur video joke looks very strange in the framework of a full-fledged series, where everything should be worked out at a higher level. I cannot turn my brain off so much that I do not cling to obvious gaps in the logic of the world, such as the fact that an ordinary copter somehow flies in outer space, which can only fly in airspace, or that it is bluntly released into the window of the space shuttle “Orbital gearbox – Earth”. In the open space!!!
And the main advantage of the series is that the subgenre Berezopank created by the authors really works. There is this very capitalist dystopia, which is the backbone of the genre: a refrigerator by subscription, wallpaper by subscription, an evil corporation that squeezes land from working people, replacing working people with robots, and it is not easy for the robots themselves, etc., albeit in a humorous manner. And there are lamp post-Soviet realities.
There is a good social subtext, they say, like robots and holograms and trains in space fly, and people live in the same way as in the 90s. The problem is not the technology, but the system. And there are hints that the USSR in this world lasted much longer, even on Mars there were cities with Lenin, but, as in our world, after the counter-revolution, everything was destroyed and stolen.
Social jokes and jokes about power in the series are especially good.
The series stars actors from the Yutupov series, which is nice, because they are good. The main character and his wife got children, and the younger plays well, and the older one is bad even, as it seemed to me, within the given role. Baragozin is again in place - a beautiful in its parody character, perfectly played by the same very colorful and similar to you know who actor. But the cute and romantic conductor was thrown down to a shawl, having fun with the authorities while the train is on the way. At the end of the series, though, it's still cute. Many others are playing at a fairly good level. Except that the arc of characters is not enough, the soy manager and, it seems, everything. The main characters do not change at all. If you do not need to change in general, he is already beautiful in the image of a kind and somewhat naive “his man” in the vatnik. Heroes of such a plan was not, it seems, a very long time ago and it is good that it exists. There's another problem. They are trying to show us that Robobosin changes, but this effect only works within the framework of one series, or even an episode, and then he is again the same asshole as always. That is, all his adventures, acquaintances with people, with their lives is just another empty space, which in the framework of the whole series does not lead anywhere. At least for now, we’ll probably see it in season two.
But the villain is excellent, with motivation, gradual development, pressure and even some tragedy. Although it is just another reference, it turned out very well. Good ending for the second season.
It's very well shot, and the countonium is beautiful. And not only the performance, but also the fiction and the diverse style and scale of what is happening in the 22nd century. Very many planets, which will visit the heroes, amaze with the scope, color and ironically noticed and raised in fun our reality. Here, on this scale, you can turn off the brain and just enjoy the invention of the authors. Heroes do not trample in a couple of locations, and almost every series we see something new and interesting.
It is especially nice that not only digital technologies are used, but also dolls. The robot doll was especially beautiful and alive. At the same time and ridiculous and funny and even with emotions.
In general, many times I wanted to quit, the series constantly throws from good moments to extremely stupid, and often within the framework of one episode. This carousel of bombardment and laughter makes you very tired. But since the good is still there, you can try to see why it is so exalted. The second season I would watch, I hope the authors will learn from their many mistakes.
7 out of 10
It turned out like it always does. But still "Cybervillage" I liked rather than did not like, despite a number of nuances.
Of the pluses: a bright picture, worthy of graphics, a funny Robogosin with the voice of Burunov (somehow from this robot warmth on the soul became - apparently still alive in the memory of WALL-E), references to everyone's favorite films, unsettled faces, lack of vulgarity, the versatility of the product - it is for both olds and teenagers.
The disadvantages for myself I found the following. The plot as a whole is not new. There are not quite worked out, but taking a lot of time in the frame characters, and not very gifted with acting talent. Separately about Chikhachev: his voice is loved by moviegoers, and he is a pleasant uncle in general, but personally for me as an actor of dubbing he is an order of magnitude cooler than when he is in the frame. It’s also not clear why there’s no one left in the universe except the Russians. Very annoying intrusive advertising integration with SBP. Well, whatever it was, even in space in 2100 on a loaf and you can fly, but to open the window and stick out the hands-legs-head without a spacesuit would still be unrealistic.
However, for all the negative moments I was ready just a little snort and score. Until I watched Episode 6. I was upset by the quite subtle and rude stereotyped scenes, where the planet Ceres is an obvious USSR, in which, of course, wild people live, pray for the layout of the rocket and do not accept progress, and officials shoe them for money. Here it smelled not satire, but just such Russophobic cranberries. Just 10 minutes ruined a good impression of the whole season.
But in general, if we ignore this episode, we can say that the product came out sensible and, as it were, almost popular.
7 out of 10
Watched web shorts. Yeah, that was fun. Creativity and humor drew not the coolest special effects and graphics. The series came up with a plot and has already equipped some actors. It was easy, but it only lasted three episodes. It was boring. The actors are mediocre, the general idea of mind migration is very secondary, and humor. Well, there's some humor and there's probably a lot of it, and I understand that people like it, but that's how I almost never get KVN Level 1 humor, so this one didn't come. The creators of the conceptual authentic simplicity decided to apply to comedy. It's not that bad.
It's a story seed. Some Russian future or alternative reality. Robo-punk. Two friends dream of becoming famous and invent a mind transfer machine. The experiment doesn't work. They dream of starting a robot company in every home. Then I show you that time has passed, and one of them is the last farmer on Mars, and the other is a pretty nasty director of a large robot company. This company needs a farmer's plot. The bourgeoisie are coming to Mars. Former friends who are now enemies fighting. And during a fight, the rich man's mind changes with the robot's. This is the main comedy theme.
I don’t want to watch it because many people really like it.
One of those times I can't fully appreciate this creation. Because as individual elements it is funny, thick and so on, not without merits let us say so. However. It's like a bunch of clips, loosely connected, stamps and colorful frames stuffed with effects. There is a feeling of emptiness after such content.
Good series and films with a life-affirming message - the thing is now necessary, in this case we also have work developed from the usual, albeit also very talented YouTube shorts.
Still managed to link these videos in history, even a few more left for the future. Excellent live locations, close to any resident of the CIS - the yard of nine-story, the central street of the peripheral town, old garages and a seat car, and with graphics they sometimes become like the works of Simon Stalenhag, but not gloomy. CG-artists have tried their best – the volume of work is huge, you do not even want to find fault. References can be bulldozed, but mostly they are background and do not distract from the case.
The selection of actors is bright, images are remembered and in most cases evolve, but what was lacking was some signature character chips, except for "your mat... series" nothing to remember, and it would be good.
In general, it seems that a very decent team has gathered, which can and wants, the main thing is to feel when to stop, so as not to milk to burnout and depression.
Well, I am glad that despite all the family and lamp, the series has teeth, and although about a hundred years ahead, and very even today.
There is a place to grow.
I'll tell you right away that the series wasn't for stifling. For them there is the rest of the Russian film industry. I started watching by accident and not at first. A leafy TV channel saw Cyber Village, heard something, the name itself is funny. Well, let's see, all the same on the other channels of transmission for the near ones go - yelling, arguing, divorcing-divorcing, fu!
I was very interested in this series. Unusual looks, untarnished actors, no vulgarity and jokes "for 300". No family dramas or gooseberry snot. No rudeness or rudeness. Nice to see! I liked the idea of combining our backwater with high technology. The film is made quite technologically, the graphics are excellent, the landscapes are wonderful. And the whole movie is a hoard of memes, ridiculing a lot of modern nonsense, like Hunting Flat Earther. Speaking to the police: Have you offended the feelings of a believer? Is someone discrediting the interplanetary military? Do you want to declare someone a foreign agent?' 'I've been robbed!' 'Ah, well, then we'll figure it out.' Or on the train: 'Why is the laundry wet?' 10th car just behind 25th. The CryptoRuble will rebound in the next century. 'It's probably a commotion in the Izhevsk-Dinemix office right now,' and everyone is standing in front of the monitor watching the director hang out on the wall. Etc. Easter is full, you can't list it all. Slomosin's rifle, screw fire, smokecloth. The only thing missing is a portrait of Putin in the main character’s office, although this is the 22nd century. Fun!
Many jokes about our routine, about officials, police, customs and migrants. It's great! It's been a while. Well done, guys, 10 for them!
Finally, there was something called a “good Russian TV series.” It all started with a short film, and now we can talk about a full-fledged universe of birchpunk. Everything turned out very well both in terms of directing and on schedule and, very importantly, it is “our product” that the characters are written and act as they should in “the good our film”, behind this everything in which there is no attempt to copy anyone or make “our answer”. . If we talk about space for growth and what can be tightened up, it seems to me that this is an acting game. . I’m really excited about what’s next and we’re looking forward to a second season!
Honestly, when I saw that the series came out, I was surprised and happy with the fact of its implementation so that I decided not to expect much from it when watching. So let's say I lowered the bar in advance. But throughout the season, I got so carried away that I dropped a tear at every sentimental moment and laughed at funny scenes and jokes like a child. It seems that the process of creation is so “comfortable” with the idea that it is expressed in creative freedom, and in the thoughtfulness of the plot, and in the abundance of chips, references, visual effects, locations and much more.
“Cybervillage” is valuable not only for the level of involvement of the creators in their project, but also for the cultural contribution, ideas and irony that it carries. I think this is very exciting for our time. How do you remember a film project over the past 10 years that was genuinely inspired and at the same time not shy about referring to the realities in which we live? It’s hard to be inspired by chthony, but the creators of the Cyber Village showed how to look at it differently. Life is different, people are different. But the essence of joy and sorrow is the same for all. The characters in the series are not divided into absolutely bad and absolutely good. There are indecisive, there are almost bad, but honest to themselves, there are very good, but sometimes gambling.
I felt respect and gratitude for this project. It was like talking to an old friend and it was easier. Very heartfelt and sincere. Not so much about the future, but about the values that are needed here and now. Simple and multi-layered at the same time. The soul of a starving spectator.
The first couple of episodes made me excited and proud for domestic fiction. It was as if I saw District #9, only with sparkling humor and Russian flavor. My girlfriend liked it, too. I began to recommend the series to family and friends, sincerely rejoicing for the quality of the product. But then it was like something broke and I started to get depressed. The plot went downhill, turning into stupid catch-ups, the humor went into satire and fell to the level of new issues of Yeralash, the actors turned into stupid dummies acting out scenes in the school KVN, the graphics became boring and the eye began to notice the hack. The world looks unconvincing, as does the future itself. The planets and moons resemble different parts of a large city. The distance was felt only at the beginning, when the heroes had to board a train to leave Mars. Then the movements took place at the click of your fingers on any can that could fly from one side of the solar system to the other on one exhaust. Here, even the cheapest quadcopters fly in a vacuum without any problems and can be launched by opening a window and sticking out your hand. No suits, no sealing. This is the future!
There's a lot of fluff. Then on Mars behind the construction in the frame is a flyover with cars traveling on it, then the hologram from the mouth is steaming, then show an ordinary yard with a panel Khrushchevka, parking on the lawn, satellite dishes on the windows and a magnet at the house, then on the head of the robot you notice a potentiometer wound with tape. The list can be endless. Reminiscent of all this advertising store on the couch, when plastic trinket attributed unusual properties and try to push it to gullible viewers.
During the viewing, it seems that there are no other nations and races left in the entire solar system. It's all Russian. Although it was possible to show a couple of shots of Americans and Chinese and joke about them. There's a company called Izhevsk Dynamics. It would make her a foreign competitor, stepping on her heels.
I don't know about the workers. They were brought on huge ships, then the whole series showed one brigade, it is unclear what is doing. They periodically put sticks in the wheels, but it looked stupid and did not move the plot. For example, a girl teleported a foreman to another planet. So what? Nothing. In the next frame, he again wanders around the construction site, as if nothing had happened.
It was not interesting to follow the story. My girlfriend didn’t want to watch anymore, so I watched the series alone. I knew exactly how it would end, but the finale was disappointing. It turned out to be crumpled and unsaid. The story did not evolve, the characters remained where they began. Because of this, the whole season seemed like a blanket, a colorful soap bubble that burst in the tenth series and left behind only splashes.
This series reminded me of Futurama. Only Futurama is an animation, so you forgive her many things, and the plot there is much more exciting, which makes you less distracted by the scenery. And then the viewer was given a raw and hulking product. The first series were shot on the available materials with the addition of small changes and look best. Then it's sad. In fact, it becomes sad to think that we can shoot no worse than foreign blockbusters, but they do not learn to bring the script to mind, placing an interesting story behind a beautiful picture.
Movie search is always surprising. Some of them reveal very complex topics, abscesses of the post-Soviet space (the King and the Jester), others turn out to be unexpectedly interesting (for example, Topy). But only the Cyber Village surprises with its simple, unpretentious humanity. This story, in my opinion, is not about space, a dispute between two friends or Russia of the future, but about a huge family of fans of science fiction. The series is saturated with references, references, humorous additions to your favorite fantastic works. Like a huge mosaic or puzzle, which is good to solve together. Other projects of Kinopoisk are also original, but only Cybervillage can be called a project for everyone: children, colleagues, husbands, wives, grandparents. The plot is unpretentious, the characters are simple, but wildly charismatic (the skirmishes of Volody and Robogosin are the gold of the series), and most importantly - after watching there is a sea of warm, positive emotions. I do not know how it happens, but the humor is kind, the world of the future is elegant, and the heroes - even if they are scoundrels, but there is not only a smile, but also tears - you can really cry from the bright naivety of the heroes. This is what surprised me - finally you can relax with the whole family.
If you analyze not in general, but in particulars, then the series raises a number of acute fantastic topics. The two main characters are friends who were divorced by fate. One is a successful businessman, rotting from the inside, rich, but rather cynical and talentless, and the other.
Forgotten genius, beggar and deceived, think locked in the edge of the universe. Moreover, in the roles of two cool actors of the old school. Take them - a great luck, a real jackpot for an Internet project. This duo is a master of tragicomedy: Sergey Burunov in the role of a sneaky and thieving businessman, and Sergey Chikhachev is his antipode friend, a forgotten genius. Sounds like a simple idea, but it works. The duo of the two Sergeev perfectly reveals the theme of success. How often do not those who work, but those who know how to sell other people’s labor competently achieve it? They will have to overcome a lot, traveling to Russia of the future. Each planet of this universe is a new, unknown world with its own laws and arrangements.
The script jokingly and topically went through very painful topics. How will there be a planet living according to the laws of Tsarist Russia? Should missiles be sanctified before they are launched? How will a robot behave with a soul? How are there people replaced by robots? In the future, will they marry neural networks? And most importantly, can friends who are not equal to each other be reconciled? Cybervillage is about the vices of post-Soviet society, its abscesses and wounds. About the work of the valiant militia, pay, Russian Railways, Tsarist Russia, class inequality, capitalism, swindler, Soviet time - about everything that is talked about in the evenings in the kitchens.
And yet - a cybervillage of unprecedented beauty spectacle. The graphics are excellent, no total nausea and grayness. From this series it follows that the “beautiful far” to us is not cruel, but fair. Visual humor (including fleeting inscriptions or references) is also at a very high level. The robot with expressive eyes, the gait of a three-year-old child and three fingers is very touching, beautiful and charming. For the play of words: Rogozin - Baragozin a separate respect.
However, I would like to know more about the life of each planet, because they are given only one series. I want to delve into this bizarre world with my head, because it smells of good fiction. I would like to learn more about planetary currencies, the past of these planets, than the history of this world is different from ours, etc. Perhaps this information awaits us in the second season.
A few words about actors. Two Sergey (Burunov and Chikhachev) create an indescribable atmosphere of friendship on the screen. Heroes are always teasing each other, sometimes they quarrel to death, sometimes they fight not for life, but for death. They have a funny and bright tandem, like real friends. The rest of the actors differed not at all as they did, because they took unknowns. (And as I understand, not very experienced.) One of the weakest points of the series is acting. Casting is good, but the embodiment of some roles truly leaves much to be desired. But Burunov and Chikhachev breathe their heroes: one is a charismatic villain, and the other is a good man to the bone. Another - beautiful Deputy Baragozin, but this - the beauty of the acting work ended.
Overall, Kinopoisk has given in the heat this season. Having released a simple project, but an ideological, bright Cybervillage. Touching, entertaining fiction in the best traditions of Soviet fiction. Disadvantages, of course, there are - in some places plot holes, weak acting work, but in general - a series for a solid four with a plus. The main thing: there is originality, novelty of ideas, bright heroes. The series is family, you can watch a big company. We look forward to this and believe in the movie! Burn!
I really liked the ending. I didn’t like the fact that the involvement happened only in series 5 (mid-season).
At first, it seemed that people were more interested in working out jokes with an allusion to our reality/mentality/culture than on the plot. Therefore, I was just tired of the fact that the characters are almost not revealed, as we were given a couple of characteristics of Baragozin and his former co-founder of the company Izhevsk Dynamics (lol did I forget his name again...). Kolya?, and scored on their further disclosure. So I was terribly bored, dreaming about a different angle of disclosure of this universe - for example, from the point of view of some cog in the system of this company, or the universe that would do its thing for a while, reveal the universe and lore, and then fig - and the topic with Mars and this farm would have nicely shaped the story into something solid and involved the audience before the middle of the season, well seriously.
But in the fifth series, I was heard and thrown a card cheater aka a jogger in the galactic bazaar of Basil. Firstly: “Kamyzyaks of Forev”, and secondly – how pleasant to see when a person outlined the front of work and he perfectly coincided with him in his abilities! Therefore, the hero of Renat Mukhambayev for me is the best among the crowd of people. He is moderately charming, not devoid of conscientiousness, calculating, and perfectly acts out comedy scenes (he made me laugh on stage with a hundred rubles, I did not plan initially!). Oh, my God, he's got a bigger character than the two of them on the main characters, and he's got nothing on the screen. I want it in the second season and that’s it!
And yes, starting from the middle, the second half of the season looks much more interesting, because they finally think about revealing the characters and finally the environment is not just presented as it is, but enters into harmony with the characters and begins to work for them. It turns out that it is also possible - not just to do a showcase, they say 'our heroes run on the train, meanwhile look how fun it is, placecards as in terry cranberry times, loool', but that to move the plot and narrative with the help of the right associations, thereby complementing both the place and the characters (mmmmmm the story from 'Homeland' made me cry, but it was my pens and problems in the family that responded to me) Along the way, they symbolically “overthrew the tsar” in the form of a terry Soviet province in the scenery of Soviet steampunk – very coolly fit in), where the head of the administration is the tsar and god, and this hairpin chot pricked me suddenly, because it probably echoed some messages to our country, clearly giving food for choking delight in the camp of professional film critics. In general, mixed feelings.
I really liked the finale of the season, as it was straight to see the white threads that tried to sew the whole affair to the happy ending, but at an unexpected moment everything twisted, turned over and steered to a very intriguing ending. If the idea of fighting a neural network is stretched to the level, I will be as happy as possible.
But look, the series is short, the universe is a little tense at first, but then it begins to penetrate the plot and everything begins to “play” properly. Vasily is van lav.
Unexpectedly cool series, combining fiction and the Russian spirit.
Quote:
- Hey, come to Mars with us. You will be here for one day, you will not want to leave!
Pros:
- High-quality image and graphics;
- Interesting and close heroes;
Fantasy in an interesting interpretation;
- Nice and touching references to Soviet films.
Cons:
- Not found.
Atmosphere: The world shown in the series is the future of high technology and interplanetary travel. And only one country in the world has achieved these heights - our country, bringing all its color and uniqueness to other planets of the Solar System. A platzkart interplanetary train on an air cushion, a market-cherkison in the middle of the numerous rings of Saturn, an abandoned mining town on Pluto, the Izhevsk-Dinemix Corporation, which creates charming assistant robots. There are a lot of atmospheric solutions and references to the Soviet-Russian reality.
The inventor Nikolai with his family lives on Mars in his own built Cybervillage. He lives in pleasure and invents various smart things and devices until interplanetary ships of the Izhevsk-Dinemix Corporation visit Mars. Together with them, the head of the corporation, an old friend of Nicholas, Kostya Baragozin, also arrives. To mine rare materials on Mars, Baragozin intends to survive Kolya with his family, but then the story only begins.
Actors and heroes: the characters of the series are extremely cute and well prescribed for their images, the actors are convincing. The most memorable, of course, Baragozin – the head of a megacorporation and an inventor from Mars Kohl – is a collective image with references to the engineer Shurik from our favorite film. Kolya - kind and honest, Baragozin - goes on his heads to success, betrays friends and allies. The contrast of former friends looks spectacular and artistic. Of the secondary ones, I liked the digital wife of Baragozin’s assistant, Galya, who got out of control of the hologram algorithm. The actress in this role was very convincing.
Soundtrack: in itself, the soundtrack is dynamic and very appropriate, separately it is worth noting the closing songs after each series.
Bottom line: Russian fiction with new breath and reading. Fascinating and simple, so familiar and cozy home. The first season is made qualitatively and not worse than Hollywood films, and given that fiction is generally difficult to shoot, here is my respect to the creators. It was dynamic and original.
The series began cheerfully, and the series until the fifth I did not feel a catch. The sixth went well purely on satire ("a hundred years under sanctions"), the seventh - on a touching relationship with her mother. However, already at these moments it became clear that the writers lacked experience, that they began to sculpt everything in a row, not seeing the main goal and not knowing where the whole mess is rolling, and that each new series more and more resembles the so-called "filler".
I remember one of the creators of the series saying they had three storylines. So, the guys, it seems, did not understand that of these three interest - both for the viewer and for the development of the plot - is only one: about the comic relationship of simple-hearted Kohli and harmful robot-Baragozin. Okay. The plot about the family of Nikolai does not move the action at all, and besides, it also sins an outright farce (worm, massage robots, zombie builders ... especially the worm - who will tell me what the global meaning was in this terrible computer model?). The plot about the new director and his holographic wife is interesting only at the very beginning, the further adventures of these heroes cause only boredom - and this with a sufficiently large timekeeping, in fact, they are given the whole eighth series!
And here with the authors also played a cruel joke tradition of releasing one series a week. For it is one thing to watch 'fillers' one by one (they are less conspicuous then), and quite another to wait a whole week to get an episode about nothing at all. As a result, closer to the season finale, interest in the series, so high at the very beginning, almost completely zeroed.
Over. Great idea, but very weak (scenario) implementation.
7 out of 10
I think many people saw short videos that appeared a few years ago on YouTube, about a simple Marisan farmer Nikolai, who breeds copters and grows cucumbers.
Yes, those videos were full of humor, not bad computer graphics... but what is there to twist the soul? Good graphics, even when compared to many full-length big-budget films! And, no matter what, a plot linking those videos with a thin dotted line.
And even then, looking at those videos, the soul asked for more. The soul asked for a full meter or series with the same characters, in the same fictional universe. There was no doubt that the film would be amazing! Looking ahead, that’s what happened.
So, in the yard of 2100, the solar system is conquered by mankind from Venus to Pluto, robots are working on farms and construction sites, not humans, trains on photon rails and minibuses are traveling in space, drivers of which pay more attention to the phone than to star paths. And in all this den, the farmer Nikolai, with his wife, children and several robots, masters Mars, growing the already mentioned cucumbers and feeding local worms. Only now the megacorporation Izhevsk Dynamix decided to demolish the Martian farm, building a plant in its place. That’s the story of the series.
Then, for 10 episodes, Nikolai is engaged in restoring justice, getting into various situations full of satire and humor. In each of the planets that Nicholas has to visit, we see a grotesque reflection of our reality, filed with great banter, a fair share of self-irony.
The series links disparate characters from videos, building a common storyline. The plot is simple, clear, no frills, in places - even too predictable, but not sagging. The story doesn't stop for a second!
In many ways, this is due not to the fact that we are interested in the fate of the heroes, but to the fact that we are interested in what form on this or that planet of the solar system will reflect modernity. And here the fantasy of the authors of the series is of great respect! Yes, sometimes the laws of physics are sacrificed to spectacle, but let us not forget that it is a comedy, and even more a parody of ourselves. Yes, sometimes jokes are too painful in the current reality, somewhere even, in my opinion, not quite appropriate. Somewhere the creators of the series are not original, frankly borrowing innovations from other films.
The question is not what to show, but how to show! And in the overwhelming majority it is shown quite funny, shown so that we recognize ourselves in certain situations.
At the head of the Cyber Village is good. The series is full of good from beginning to end! There are no jokes designed to directly offend anyone, there is no kind of bile, anger. Shame - yes, but not to offend!
It is worth noting the game of Sergey Chikhachev, a farmer Nikolai. This is his first big role, although many viewers know him behind the scenes - Chikhachev voiced many roles of A. Schwarzenegger in localizations of Hollywood films, voiced a number of computer games. His play is very natural, you believe in the hero, you empathize.
Separate mention deserves Sergey Burunov, known for the role of Yakovlev in “Policeman from Rublyovka”. Here he voices the robot, but he does it so amazingly that the robot overshadows the rest of the characters. And the robot causes almost more sympathy than many human heroes!
Great graphics - well, it was clear from the commercials that became the forerunner of the series. And, I emphasize once again - the graphics of "Cybervillage" are not inferior at all, and somewhere surpasses the sensational blockbusters!
And finally, a great soundtrack! Remember that "copter bird without nest" rollerbladder? It's the same here! Tracks written specifically for the series! And they are also full of satire, humor and deep meaning!
“Cyber Village” is not just a huge, it is a titanic work that deserves the respect and attention of the viewer. “Cyber Village” is a great reason to turn off your head and laugh at yourself, in the spirit of the Gololevsky “Inspector”. “Cyber Village” is a series I look forward to continuing!
A wonderful series, it is not a sin to review! And funny, and sad, and touching, and sarcastic. The world is such that you believe everything, every detail. Mega-robot. I loved it!
When the first YouTube video came out from the creators of the TV series Cyber Village of the same name, my husband and I were thrilled. The authors managed to paint the future with a purely Russian flavor, so all subsequent videos were viewed with great interest and, frankly, pleasure. This is what our country is like today.
When the authors announced the creation of the series, there was a fair fear: “Will they?” Movie and video formats are different, can the guys cope? They are so talented, they should succeed. we believed, and we were not mistaken.
It was two wonderful nights. Guys, "Britchpunk" (sorry, I don't know how to correctly in Russian), you seem to have stroked your heart. We miss this Russian movie so much. Good living heroes, heroes who want to sympathize with. A clear, motivated antagonist (if anything, I’m talking about a halographic wife). Humor and satire on our reality is what it looks like from here, from the province, from the outback. (How were you allowed to shoot about Ceresque?) Authors, you are the first who does not pour sludge on our lives, but does not flood it with dithyrambs. You're being honest. Maybe that’s why the show is funny.
Special thanks for the graphics. Mommy, how much work was put into each frame. You stop any frame and look for a lot of little things in the frame, filled with references, Easter eggs, hints. I literally cried with laughter: 'How am I going to walk with this?' 'Dimon!', 'Dimon!'.
Guys, spit on all the haters. You're real talents. The only request is to shoot the second season. And maybe then you will film the cycle of O. Gromyko "Cosmobioluchi"? The subject is very close. That would be great! I'd definitely go to a movie like that.
I was disappointed when birchpunk stopped releasing new YouTube videos two years ago – the project was lamp and groundbreaking. However, the news that it was a hiatus due to work on a full-fledged series, became a furore – for me, Cybervillage was the project of the year, no less. And now, after watching the whole season, I understand that I can not look further and recommend it.
The visual and audio parts can not be faulted - graphics and music are at a height. The acting I thought uneven – some actors played a hundred, others it was worse. The script periodically lames, but in general it could be closed eyes for the sake of an interesting universe and atmosphere.
But the biggest problem for me was the loss of atmosphere and meaning. On YouTube, we were shown a cheerful Kolya, who not only survived in the conditions of the Martian desert, but created, turned these deserts into fields, sincerely loved his life and invited people around the world to join him. In the series it turned out that Mars is not colonized, but dies out, Kolya is a fool and a gambler, and that wherever the main characters go, life is somehow not very good everywhere. Perhaps the creators wanted to show satire, but it turned out weak and not very relevant. Perhaps if I did not see the first videos, and without the emotional beginning of watching the series as an independent work, then such a strong rejection would not arise. But in fact, the cyber-village is completely at odds with the original message and has been the biggest disappointment of the year. It's a shame.
The biggest plus of the series - it turned out that today a young team of authors can create a video for YouTube, which will turn into a whole series. I hope there will be more and more such projects. But it will be completely different stories.
I hate unfinished shows, but here, even the first season is great. It's super! The truth is trampled on Russia, especially on a planet with a missile that wants everyone to be afraid, it’s a pity. Everything else is nice. So I watched in one breath. It's okay to watch.
I’ve been following Brichpunk since their first YouTube videos. These were very positive good releases, filled with warmth and tender love for the native land. The plot about the service dog, in contrast, was very dramatic, but no less kind.
Unfortunately, the creators of the series could not or did not want to maintain this atmosphere. Instead, we see an uncomfortable, evil, hostile world. And a script with jokes that became unfunny 15 years ago. In Russia, there are many topical themes for satire, but the series chose long overdue jokes that now cause only bewilderment (wet linen on the train, excessive funding of the army, rudeness of personnel in the service sector - seriously? What year are you from? One gets the impression that the script was written by a man from another country, who composed the image of Russia based on films from the 90s.
The plot is flat and boring.
Good acting and visual range. It's fun to integrate SBP.
Brichpunk was good on Mars. I wanted to come.
In Cybervillage disgusting, I want to get out of there.
5 out of 10
An original fantastic Russian series with a thoughtful and unique world, sounds great! And also made with an emphasis on computer graphics - wow, I'm looking! But already during the direct viewing of “Cybervillage” the enthusiasm with each episode gradually faded away, and in the final there was a strong feeling of not fully realized potential.
Kolya lives with his family on Mars, develops his small farm, but the corporation is set to take his territory. Due to various troubles, Kolya goes on an interplanetary journey with subsequent adventures with his former best friend. Unfortunately, such a simple plot was full of various clichés. The interaction between the characters seems clumsy. The storyline with the family seems not very interesting and frankly filler. It is not clear how and why mocumentaries work in the series (Who shoots them?). References to domestic and world cinema and topical jokes cause only a smile and joy from recognition (it is a pity that not everyone will understand). And as a result, if you abstract from the setting, you get an average series on the CTC channel.
Characters with special spelling do not shine. Characters consist of 1-2 qualities: a good smart guy, a cunning talker, a viper wife, a teenage girl. But glad that there were unused actors, which was interesting to watch (Kolya, Baragozin, the wife of Deputy Baragozin).
Everything about the graphics is impressive. However, it is not always done well, sometimes a joint catches the eye. The development of peace also left a mixed impression. On the one hand, everything is cool (even the advertising is correctly inscribed), and on the other, why do the heroes have no smartphones and they communicate with quadcopters?
"Cyber Village," in my opinion, has huge potential and the season 1 finale was intrigued. I would even watch something with other characters (a spin-off about a one-armed gambler in the spirit of Ocean's 11 Friends). Therefore, I would like to see next season (and he, apparently, will be) when creating an emphasis not only on the visual, but also the script component.
P.S. It seems that in an animation format it would look more cheerful.
From the very first series, the series was rated 10+. Ever since the release of short videos about the cyber village, imbued with the depicted atmosphere of the Russian hinterland, which suddenly finds itself somewhere on Mars, in harmony with advanced technologies. Everything shown was so familiar and caused good nostalgia for childhood on the holidays with my grandmother. Digital technologies were taken as given, as if everything is going to this, looking at real developments in the world. And dear to the heart references - "Lyudk, and Lyudk" - what are the costs! It is this intimate and intimate atmosphere that has earned people’s love. It seems that there are no longer those who would not know about the video about Cybervillage.
So what? They ruined everything with their Russophobia and cranberries. As if they did not Russian people, but overseas showmen with prejudices.
Episode 6 is like a spoonful of tar in a barrel of honey. They distorted the agenda to the point of absurdity. And I understand if it were done with love.
For example, on the planet Ceres wooden houses surrounded by modern high-rise buildings, trains go to all ends of the planet, but do not fly into space. Some gas stations on every corner, because the planet is rich in this resource. Robots exist, but they are as deliverers at Yandex (it would be a good reference), and each person has his own drone, because all children from the diapers are now taught to assemble them. The planet is under sanctions, living and thriving, not because everyone thinks so, but because the Ceresians know how to find a way out of any situation. And it would be possible to push some Chinese technologies: like Robogosin did not find the right battery, not because it simply does not exist, but because everything is Chinese, not original.
It was possible to approach with love, but approached with hatred to the cultural and spiritual heritage of our country. All understood the reference and the excuses are now absurd. But what else to expect from those who simply run away from the question “Why do Yandex not like Russia so much?”
But thank you for this: 'Don't believe him, he's too kind.' As a conclusion to naive thoughts.
Thank you for all the rest of the work done, the schedule at the level of course.
2100. Director and oligarch Baragozin, owner of the company “Izhevsk Dynamics”, plans to build another plant on Mars. One problem is the farmer Nikolai and his family, the only remaining settlers on the Red Planet, whose farm is located in the right place. The situation is complicated by the fact that Nikolai and Borogozin were once friends and together founded Izhevsk Dynamics, starting, as everyone should be successful, in the garage. However, after a while, one has everything, and the other has nothing.
As many people already know, this collaboration of the Birchpunk YouTube channel, which became known for their short meters about Russia of the future in the style of cyberpunk with amazing computer graphics, and Yandex.
It turned out quite bright and lamp satire, wrapped in an eclectic wrapper, consisting of a hybrid of late Soviet life, postmodernism and the same cyberpunk. In other words, the coverage area of the audience is very large, which means that few people will remain offended.
But it's a form. As for the content, here the spread is very significant. Starting with all sorts of references to such films as “Love and Pigeons”, “Kalina Red”, “Alien”, “Blade Runner”, “Kin-dza-dza!” and others, ending with a very serious raised topic – reflection of their actions. Where to go today without the topic of inequality.
I liked it. First of all, it’s just interesting to watch. Sometimes funny, somewhere very funny, and somewhere even sad. All this is well balanced and does not cause a swing effect. Actors... will do. Someone was very good, someone was very good. I'm looking forward to Borunov!
Given the discount of acceptance of convention in the form of all this mess, one problem is timekeeping. The duration of the series is mainly twenty-somethings. Not enough! Some of the series turned out to be crumpled, especially the final. I would like it to be twice as long or as long. As you can see, this is a wish for the second season. Although it has not yet been announced, it is already clear what the sequel will be. The success of the series is obvious.
I will be the first to write a negative review of this product.
I will do this without emotion or substance.
In general, I watched all 10 episodes of the first season and now I am in some perplexity from rave reviews. I want to ask you guys, what did you like about this series, besides the graphics? The picture is beautiful, I agree, but in everything else the series is frankly weak and bad.
1. The main plot - it is primitive, you can say rudimentary and sucked out of a finger. Needed only as an excuse for the start of the season, in itself it is not interesting, it is not even considered.
2. Local plots of individual series are again very primitive, beat in the forehead, shot absolutely one template, they do not carry any interesting and exciting story by themselves.
3. Acting is just not there. It’s not the fault of the actors, as they say, “bad acting is bad directing.” The main characters can still be endured, but it is impossible to look at all the others physically. Very poorly spelled their characters, again in the forehead, primitive and stereotyped, and play their actors accordingly. Characters throughout the series have to evolve, change, bad – become good, good – bad, this is the base.
4. Edit. I'll be brief here. It's terrible, a pretty twitchy camera makes you nauseous. And why is this effect even necessary? In the first series, this was explained by the fact that the main character recorded a video about himself on camera, but further on the series - who shoots all the characters??? how??
As a result: beautiful graphics, unusual surroundings, the effect of novelty - all this apparently acted as a veil for those who write now enthusiastic reviews of this product. And no one pays attention to the content, and everything is bad with it, both from the technical side and from the semantic side. The latter is particularly critical, since throughout the series there was not a single positive moment, which would be associated with the Russians and Russia as a whole. If after watching the very first series on YouTube, it seemed to me that somewhere on top of the world our Russian Kolya appears, throws his hands up and shouts to everyone on the planet “look, I’m like this!” Then after watching the first season in its entirety, this Kolya stands on the same top, but in his hands already holds a bucket of slops and emptys the contents on himself with the cry “look, I am like this!”. Why is that? It only causes shame and shame. And do not hide behind words - it is satire, parody, allusion. There is no such thing, it exists only in the world of authors who have fenced themselves with an extremely one-sided digital space. Of course, we do not live as a paradise, but as a hell, as the authors imagine. Take Balabanov as an example, he was able to show both life and characters, so much so that he is quoted to this day. If you don’t do that, don’t do it.
Unfortunately, the potential of the project was great.
The videos created by Sergey Chikhachev and K about an unusual Russian village were very cute and funny. Thank you for believing in the development of this concept.
Before us is a simple story of two friends, whose paths parted and friendship grows into disagreements, and then even in the threat of Nicholas losing his home. Here everything is quite logical and reasonable and the arch of relations is served correctly. And again, there are many attributes of the cyberpunk genre: a powerful corporation, robots, a new philosophy and worldview.
Of course, a heavy share of kitsch is added to the above. But this kitsch is absolutely not cranberry, but very appropriate. There is also humor, which several times goes on the edge (without details), but does not cross it. Moreover, even the product placement is served with irony, which is a huge rarity. I think the writers worked really well.
Separately, I note the chic references to the classics of fiction. Offhand is “Blade Runner” and “Star Wars”, but in fact they are much more.
Perhaps the finale can be considered a cliffhanger, but if you look closely, it is quite logical and has the right to life.
Very cute, lamp, absolutely no claims fantastic series. Thank you for that.