Radio Day, 2008

"Radio Day", 2008

Director : Dmitry Dyachenko
Cast : Mikhail Kozyrev, Leonid Baratsky, Rostislav Khayit, Alexander Demidov, Kamil Larin, Mikhail Polizeymako, Nonna Grishaeva, Maxim Vitorgan, Dmitry Marianov, Anna Kasatkina, Fedor Dobronravov, Amalia Mordvinova, Alexei Khardikov, Georgy Martirosyan, Emmanuel Vitorgan and others.
Musical cameo: Nikolai Fomenko, Vladimir Shakhrin, Vladimir Begunov, Alexei Kortnev, Ilya Lagutenko, Oleg Skripka, Diana Arbenina, Maxim Pokrovsky.

The main problem faced by the creators of the Day of Radio was to not spoil the porridge with oil on the one hand - the army of already existing lovers of the original performance knows the jokes of the original too literally, and any gibberish will be taken painfully, on the other hand, the authors wanted the second call to shoot something much more like a movie, than what happened with the "Election Day". Therefore, the source material needed some objectively necessary refinement.

Namely. All (well, almost all) of Kurtnev's playful original exercises went to the first film, leaving the modest cameo of the Cossack voivode, so they had to come up with some kind of replacement. In addition, to remove the effect of theatrical skits, the project director Maxim Trapot was invited to the project, having so far been able to take part in youth comedies, in television and art-house-festival projects, so the level of the frame immediately promised much more than we saw six months ago .

Thus, as a result, Misha Kozyrev traditionally undertook the invitation of specially musical guests, while the rest of the producers not only expanded the list of the main participants of the narrative in the manner of the initially absent character in the action of Dmitry Marianov, but also the long-awaited Emmanuel's fans Gedeonich Vitorgan, ill-fated ocean liner "Doctor of Sciences Professor Schwarzenhild." A number of fresh jokes were also invented. And rushed.

As it was already clear from the trailer, the production really turned out to be more a film than a tele-performance, all these radial corridor-studio locations successfully blended into the basis of the performance, the director did not even have to be particularly sophisticated in the scenography, almost literally reproducing the corresponding episodes, only slightly dulled the light here , adding a close-up there, having invented several scenes in the parking lot in front of the radio station and ready, get the desired movie.

In general - repeating jokes of the original, but also trying not to spoil them. Painfully familiar, but without the feeling that you came to watch the "boyan" (see the headline). And most importantly, without that feeling of embarrassment for the level of the production, which is not-no, yes, and slipped in the "Election Day". On the other hand - not all of the creativity manifested as a result went to the movie for good.

So the endless space flights of the camera from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean and back not only manage to get up on the second try, but in general this whole passage about the insane Noah's Ark somehow in the end looks not very ridiculously inserted the number of the class "we're joking about the fleet" . Not Pokrovsky, no, and not the level of the main plot. Amalia Mordvinova in the role of a tightened cameo - her self-worth in general, to put it mildly, is not obvious. Here signs on cells with animals instead of titles and could be limited.

The second thing, which was just present in the play, beating back the scenes there, but did not get along with the movie format at all, these are the same fake jingles about "How would radio 109.9 FM". On the one hand, against the backdrop of the night city, they look quite authentic (only "as it were" advertising in the film generally got in the singular, also not very fitting) - one enviable care with which the editors hurried to put almost every glue together with this foreign material, killed the whole idea completely. In the movie - their own rules, and interruptions do not help change the scene, but prevent viewing.

And most importantly - if you do not consider the relatively successful Max Pokrovsky, Ilya Lagutenko and the obligatory "Chaifs in the elevator", and also Fomenko, who replaced the sacramental "Night Stall" with his no less shansonic vocals, the other singing guests looked in the frame precisely with drawn numbers, because was well, not a bit ridiculous.

All these three moments in the amount of quite a noticeable time prevented the main thing - how to make the viewer laugh at the start, get the proper degree of idiocy and go to the operational space. In fact, the hall began to laugh only after the sacramental announcement of the list of rare animals and the subsequent drinking on the air. The audience finally stopped suffering, began to enjoy and even the captain's phrase "try not to shit" took for granted.

Mikhail Natanovich's mother went on the air, an idiotic "interview" with Brigitte Bardot and her husband Jules Jen, as well as the sacramental "Misha, you know me, I rarely say such words" after the wondrous notch about the "knitted jacket".

In the end, life was a success, the guest of the program moderately coped with the role of another bald DJ, taking away from DJ Max the right to portray a North American rabbit climbing on a tree, everyone ate pies, you are right now good fellows.

The final mandatory composition in the performance of the long-awaited Kortnev about "some maniac takes" Mayak "and prevents me from taking arsenic" to some extent justified him, to put it mildly, an immovable and terribly tightened cameo as the eternal interlocutor of Nonna. again Lagutenko.

As a result, we received a movie quite positive and not at all dropping the faces of the creators, also, like the previous call, not without flaws, but this time it seems more integral and more ridiculous, and also close to the original, which in this case is only a plus . It remains to wait, when the "Quartet I" will now have another play.

See you at the cinema.