Here’s a look at how the 6-hand rule works. But if in previous films all the characters from different cities were somehow connected and somehow helped the main characters. All the stories are separate here. The only thing they were connected to was the grandparents from each story, who were called by heroes from the nursing home looking for the president's number. But why are there gamers? They did nothing to help Tamara and Petrovich in finding a room. Or is Tanya, Kirill and Vadik just a separate story with its own storyline about the problems of the virtual world? A story that tells about relationships, about addiction (gambling), when people are ready to do anything for the sake of virtual fornication and do not appreciate close and loving people. That you need to be able to let go (remove) from the life of those who just do not appreciate, do not respect and do not love, who do not need you. And that we are surrounded by more worthy people who are ready for us to do anything. You just have to see them. If that was the point, then maybe the story of gamers takes place. I didn’t know what they were doing.
In general, the essence and meaning of the film, of course, plays a big role. Each story tells us something important. The loneliness of our old people, the fact that children often forget about their parents in pursuit of money, success, career, etc. They don't need much. Just a little attention, care and understanding that someone needs them. The fact that the family is our support and support, and if you are in a difficult situation, you need to tell your relatives and find a way out together, and not alone try to find a solution that can completely harm the people close to us and around us. And also about the complexities of family life and the fact that values are changing dramatically. If before it was family, relatives, friends, good deeds and help to the neighbor just like that, friendship, when everything is for each other mountain, live communication and emotions. Now - "for yourself", and others do not care, money, career, virtual life and online communication - more important. We have forgotten how to talk live, listen, hear and understand each other. In fact, the life problems of the present time are raised here. Thus, the original message of the first Christmas tree is lost. If earlier it was an easy New Year’s Eve comedy, this time I never laughed. But the tears were coming.
So my comedy tree 10 lost, alas. And it is true that 1-2 films are good, and then the writers begin to suck out of a finger. And then we got to 10. I think it's time to end. They've worn themselves out.
And that’s what I liked, is that the film plays the beautiful actors of the older generation – Galina Polskikh, Yuri Kuznetsov, Boris Shcherbakov, and in general many others. I don’t think that older actors have many offers, but here they were given the opportunity to act!
It was a good movie, but I was expecting more comedy than drama.
These Christmas trees with morals: “There is still love and friendship in the world”
One of the writers of this comedy is the famous blogger Kulik. Perhaps that is why there are so many jokes about streams, blogs, artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes. This franchise is gradually turning from comedy to melodrama. There was no laughter when watching, tears of joy for Gennadyich (played by Shcherbakov) were touching. All the stars of Soviet cinema play lonely pensioners who take care of each other. Boris Shcherbakov, Galina Polskikh, Yuri Kuznetsov are old people in a nursing home. What did you like best? This is a mutual aid of pensioners and young people. Young people are looking for their happiness, and old people are trying to make their new day better. The New Year’s table is a peace table. This series is dedicated to the Internet and its wonders. That's probably why it looks fresh. This New Year's melodrama has pluses: "Explained to the elderly that Artificial Intelligence." Modern technology has made the elderly helpless children.
As a child, we wore clothes from our older brothers and sisters, and now our parents wear their children’s phones. Advanced children and young people everywhere are looking for benefits. To do just good without profit, navar is not interesting now. But in Russia there are old people born in the USSR who live by moral principles. I liked that melodrama. The composer Tsarkov wrote music, which the sound engineer diluted with popular tracks. Everyone knows what friendship is at a critical time. Directors Miftakhov and Chekhov created the classic “Trees” with the moral: “There is still love and friendship in the world.” Hero Gennadych is the most long-suffering in this series "Tree tree".
This is an interesting story that has Kirkorov. Kirkorov is the star and the most sensible hero of this film. All actors play for 5. The main thing is not the meaning, but the New Year mood of the film. This film quality Full HD, which is good to watch in the cinema and on TV.
I liked the film with its New Year’s mood. So to speak, waiting for the 31st of December. I recommend it to all fans of Russian cinema.
If 2007 was once rich in triquels (“Shrek the Third”, “Spider-Man: Enemy in Reflection”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”: At the end of the world, Rush Hour 3, then 2023 was remembered for the release of 10 parts of some long-running (and already quite annoying to the audience) franchises. These are "Saw 10", "Furious 10" and ... "Tree 10". Moreover, if the first two examples can still be called successful, then as for the Russian film, everything turned out somehow sad in every sense.
You know, how some viewers today do not relate to the film Ryazanov “The irony of fate, or With light steam” it has long been a classic. Like champagne and olive salad on New Year's Eve. So Timur Bekmambetov, having once taken up another commercial project with an abundance of stars on the New Year's theme called "Trees" wanted to make his traditional New Year's film. But instead of one (but good) movie, he was drawn to develop the franchise. And so almost every year we got another part of this New Year franchise, not wanting to. Although judging by the reviews of critics and viewers, as well as the box office, the conveyor had long needed to be covered in a good way. Perhaps Bekmambetov realized his mistake, trying to close the project, calling the 7th part “The Last Tree”. But Pandora’s Box was already open, and therefore there were those who continued the work of Timur, despite his refusal.
If you try to divide the entire New Year’s Eve franchise into phases (like the Marvel Cinematic Universe), then the last phase, which began with Part 8 (already without Bekmambetov’s participation), did not cause me any feelings except bewilderment. And frankly, remembering how good and sweet the first two were (the first two and I think the best of the whole saga), watching the franchise lose quality with each film was hard. Though it would seem difficult here? The structure doesn't change. As befits a film almanac, there are several novels shot by different directors, and one that would be the main one in the film. However, there is a creative impotence of screenwriters who do not know how not only to create funny stories, but at least to demonstrate interesting plots. Everything turned out so dull, bland and stupid that it is difficult to imagine that we even lived to the tenth part.
One of the most obvious plot jambs I would call self-repeat (if not plagiarism) in the main storyline of the film. Yes, if you wish, you can get to the story from the first part about a girl from an orphanage, who invented a legend for everyone that her father is the President of Russia, who will have to say during the New Year's address the phrase "On Santa Claus hope, and yourself do not be flat." But when you see something similar in part 10 (but with the residents of the nursing home, and not the phrase of the President as confirmation of deception, but an ordinary wink and greeting), then somehow there are mixed feelings from such déjà vu. In addition, if in 2010 the creators of the film bothered and the then President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev had something like a cameo (years later Bekmambetov admitted that there was a deepfake of Medvedev, but the voice was real), then here they did not bother at all, inviting Dmitry Grachev to the project (who regularly appears in the KVN, but in the Camedi Club as a double of Putin).
And another problem (which sins all the last parts of the Christmas tree) was the participation of the actors of the previous parts, but in other roles. Otherwise, if you look closely at the 7th and 10th parts of the Christmas tree, you can understand that the characters of Yuri Kuznetsova are different characters. Yeah, both are lonely old men. But they are called differently, and the storylines with them are different.
As for the main characters, in the tenth “Yolkay” almost all the characters were beginners, with the exception of blogger Larisa from Tyumen ( Elena Valushkin) and her family – daughter Julia (Sophia Priss) and husband Valera (this time he was played instead of Alexei Serebryakov Vitaly Kishchenko). Well, Valera’s friend with an adventurous soul named Bugor (Alexander Bashirov) reappeared after the debut in the 9th part. If in the 8th part the main character was Yulia, who accompanied the capricious stand-up comedian Stas Starovoitov, in the 9th part her mother Larisa learned the basics of video blogging, now the plot revolves around Valera, who is trying to make money on the Internet, using his wife’s channel. So in a way, everyone got their own vibrant story arc throughout the franchise. As for the other characters, nothing happened. About gamers for the third time (even without Evgeny Kulik, who is not here as an actor, but the guy remained in the project as a showrunner and screenwriter) to watch tired, and the line about abandoned musical talents Ruslan because of family household turned average.
All in all, there was another low-grade spectacle. From the former greatness and New Year’s atmosphere of the Christmas franchise, nothing remains. Cameo Philip Kirkorov (who agreed to shoot in order to capture on film his father - Bedros Kirkorov) that it was necessary? This did not affect the general plot, before that Kirkorov had already been filmed in the “Yolka” films. That is, even the cameo effect of stars does not work as it once worked. There is no need to resurrect something that has long since died. The number 10 is a good number. But let the Christmas saga end there.
“The Last Christmas Trees” in 2018 should have put an end to the franchise, but in 2023 another cross appeared – “Tree 10” / X. Fortunately, for fans of the movie reviewer, on the well-known site, fell new material for the upgrade. Unfortunately, for the creators, a portion of unfriendly comments and ridicule of “talents” in full program is planned.
From the very beginning, it gives a secondary introductory melody (it is unclear why it was added) due to a specific copypast - a reference to Harry Potter. Not Hogwarts, but a nursing home. The primary story, where they try to save the locked grandfather. The most absurd plot development of all. There will be something to warm up the cold interest in this theater “performers with features”, who do not cease to amaze. Next, we meet a blogger over 40+, who has 150k subscribers, but she did not learn to shoot her content on more decent equipment and not at arm’s length. The only good thing is that it shoots horizontally, not vertically. His working days manage to annoy his husband. As a result of all this, we see the attempt of a simple worker from the factory to join the era of the current “digital industry”. Later, a person with a clear midlife crisis appears, who is not appreciated for his musical “ability” and tries to eliminate the lack of demand. A place was also found for a young couple who broke up due to their passion for computer games. Passia disagrees with this and decided to return the relationship by studying immersive games, so to speak. The link, as it turned out, is also a family that does not introduce its history and it is unclear what is needed in the scenario at all. It is only the key to the final chord.
Have you faced a stupid decision or action in your life? Turn on the Christmas tree 10, fill your void against the background of NPC-characters, whose actions can not be adequately assessed, which from the heart of the writers handed them. Of course, it was probably all staffed under the guise of a “New Year’s miracle”, but the miracle did not happen. Such a case, as a maximum, in the serial project, but not under the guise of the “New Year’s tradition”, which is now used as an engine of the advertising process.
It’s about laughing and laughing.
The missing victim of a broken relationship is completely mired in computer games. The mother brings home the first person she meets, because he plays the same game as her. It's called getting married. (Huskey meme on my mind) According to experts, you need to laugh. Not even a background laughter, for the seed; "Alenka - you are my Alenka." You're like a refrigerator, and I'm like a magnet stuck to you. Alyonka, you are my Alyonka. You're a sweet condensed, and I'm a tooth that hurts." etc. - unclaimed talents of a failed musician in a melodic and humorous manner; The case at the supermarket checkout: "I'm not going to pay anything." - Excuse me? I said I wasn't going to pay anything. - I'll call security then. I'm sorry, it's not you" (communicated wirelessly on work issues). I would also like to mention a funny shopping moment, but he probably didn’t plan on making me laugh. A native of the supermarket gave 3500r and came out with a trolley, which was as many as three large packages of products for this amount. Funny, isn't it?
Why did writers decide that it was easy to let anyone home? The most painful question after all I've seen. A lot of scenes where strangers easily get into the apartment and have a dialogue. I guess it's for the sake of saving. Locations came out very scarce. Continuous pavilions against the background of “barely decorated spaces” and scanty passages to the streets, with clearly artificial snow, where they also clearly saved on extras. Philip Kirkorov, who is in the frame for no more than three minutes, I believe, is also deprived of the budget. I was on the poster. Well, the marketing giants are in. The main task is accomplished.
The result is the most heartlessly stuffy fake that pretends to be what it is not. We observe infantile stories of narrow-minded and wild personalities under the guise of “average life stories” on the eve of the New Year. Take the concept away from this non-stop conveyor and it will instantly depreciate. All these artificial stories are woven against the backdrop of artificial winter, nothing more. “New Year” here will be remembered only for the final and it serves as just another reason for such projects to somehow work under the hype. When an unassuming moviegoer is brought to the cinema under the pretext of a holiday. Moreover, in addition to the talentless circus, the potential viewer is still fed the well-known advertising for quick payments. It becomes clear who is the sponsor and for what purpose it was all filmed.
P.S Watching the same thing every year? Tired already, it is impossible simply! (c) Quote of the only adequate character, sounded at the end.
1 out of 10
I'm crying. But these aren't the same trees as before.
I didn't expect to be at the premiere. It was just me and my wife in the room. It looks like other people want to watch the weekend.
For the film:
The name Christmas trees should attract those who have seen other Christmas trees. It probably will be.
But we must prepare for the fact that this is not a funny comedy, but rather a film-reflection on the unjolly fate of the old people, which we either are, or aspire to them in age.
There are offshoots from the theme of a pension for elderly pensioners, but not far-fetched - it is simply shown that there are several cities in Russia where they play computer games, earn money on the Internet and do business with the Chinese. Complete modern set of classes for the population.
Of course, everyone sincerely tries to help and at the end of the film help a lonely person.
And that's good. Tears are pressing.