Country: Russia
Genre: comedy, science fiction
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwB6EW5b7k
In the age of hi-tech, Andrey and Marina cannot agree on how to properly raise their teenage son, the reason is his love for gadgets. The couple quarrel endlessly until one morning they wake up in the bodies of robot guides Ivan and Marya. To return to their bodies, Andrey and Marina will have to overcome contradictions and come to an understanding. But the robots do not want to go back at all - having known all the delights of human existence, they decided to remain human forever.
This movie is...well... It's definitely not good, but not a complete garbage. It's an one-time-watch movie, it's typical for the majority of modern Russian movies.
Of course, there are a lot of stupid and vulgar jokes, but at least they are not insulting; some of them are even funny (for example, a joke about Windows and BSOD). Also there is no propaganda, and that's great (because a lot of modern Russian films, especially those that were released recently, are full of political and religious propaganda).
Acting is quite good. Gosha Kutsenko (Andrey) and Kristina Orbakaite (Marina) are good actors (though Orbakaite is better known as a pop singer). Same goes for Sergey Asharin (robot Ivan) and Sofya Ozerova (robot Marya), they play robots very realistically (blank stares, glassy eyes, unnatural facial expressions, realistic robotic movements, etc.).
And what about robots? They look like robots, talk like robots (sound effects are quite nice), move like robots, etc. There are a lot of scenes with robot vision. Sometimes robots are malfunctioning, for example, Marya's hands are sometimes short-circuiting (a small scene at 35:16 - 35:17).
And, of course, there is some product placement. For example, all smartphones in this movie are iPhones; various characters use Odnoklassniki app for video calls (Odnoklassniki is one of Russian social networks).
Some funny (and strange) moments:
- Andrey's and Marina's son uses his drone freely, it flies over the streets and films videos, but in reality drones currently are prohibited in Moscow and Moscow region;
- characters use some strange "Rupoisk" search engine (it looks a bit like Google); in the browser's address line you can see that this search engine's site doesn't have a SSL certificate;
- Ivan and Marya retain their robot vision (software?) after their consciousness was transferred to human bodies. But how? Also there was a scene where Ivan (in human body) was malfunctioning like a robot. There was another scene where he tried to reboot himself...by beating his head against a car's steering wheel.
P.S. Sorry for my bad English, it's not my native language.