Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie (2007)

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers:

Timur Bekmambetov (writer)
Emil Braginsky (idea)

Release Date:

21 December 2007 (Kazakhstan)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Family | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Love | Winter | Sequel To Cult Comedy

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy	...	Kostya Lukashin
Elizaveta Boyarskaya	...	Nadya
Sergey Bezrukov	...	Irakliy
Andrey Myagkov	...	Evgeniy Lukashin
Aleksandr Shirvindt	...	Dyadya Pasha
Valentina Talyzina	...	Tetya Valya
Barbara Brylska	...	Nadezhda Vasilevna
Yuriy Yakovlev	...	Ippolit Georgievich
Aleksandr Belyavskiy	...	Dyadya Sasha
Mikhail Efremov	...	Ded Moroz
Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya	...	Snegurochka
Viktor Verzhbitskiy	...	Neizvestnyy
Igor Savochkin	...	Kolya - pogranichik
Ville Haapasalo	...	Pyanyy finn (as Ville Khaapasalo)
Roman Madyanov	...	Mayor

Also Known As:

Ирония судьбы, или С новым счастьем! (Russia)
Ирония судьбы-2 (Russia)
Ирония судьбы. Продолжение (Russia)
Ironiya sudby-2 (Russia) (alternative transliteration)
The Irony of Fate 2 (International: English title)
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your New Happiness! (International: English title) (working title)
The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

Russia:115 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Bazelevs Production

Trivia:

The role of Nadyusha was offered to Milla Jovovich, but she declined after reading the script.

Movie Connections:

Follows Ironiya sudby, ili S legkim parom! (1975) (TV)

No plot. No dialogue. No taste. No movie.

This production (I cannot bring myself to call it a movie, because it isn't) pretends to be a sequel to the beloved New Year romantic comedy the Irony of Fate (Ирония Судьбы). In fact, it is nothing more than a shameless attempt to cash in on the huge and well-deserved popularity of the original, which remains one of the favorites of the Russian-language audiences even after more than 30 years. This "sequel" brings together most of the original actors who appeared in the Eldar Ryazanov's masterpiece. As you might well imagine, the original actors are by now in their seventies - which is by no means a bar to being a good actor (just take a pick at any of Jack Lemmon's late movies!), provided that you do not try to play the same role you had 30 years ago. Unfortunately, the movie director Timur Bekmambetov (Тимур Бекмамбетов) completely lacks the ability to capitalize on the strengths of his actors; he is also clueless in the basic principles of scene composition, and is incapable of pulling off the most basic of physical jokes. In addition to that, the script lacks a coherent plot or basic believability. The production quality is also terrible - I've seen some home movies with more professional scene lighting, for example. Altogether, this is an extremely bad movie - avoid it at all costs, even if you have to pay to be let off watching it.