Nikitich and The Dragon (2006)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Please don't spend money on this.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

the characters, the story, the animation. parts from the tradition of a great artistic school. interesting, seductive, amusing and a form of propaganda which, in East, reminds interesting images about childhood of few generations. inspiration's source - tradition. in new clothes, using inspired forms of humor, using the words about bogatyrs for create for each of them a new life. Dobrynya Nikitich is the same like in legends. but the Zmey becomes more ...seductive. wise, powerful, victim of a kind of crisis, it seems be one of the bad characters from American child films who discover his noble heart. and the old war has new dimensions. more than nice, an useful film. about an old world. in new splendid colors.

its virtue - nothing new. the characters, the events, the adventures, animation and the end are same. but film remains fresh. not only for nationalist drops or for beauty princess but for the ideal art of Russian art in this industry. sure,word of bogatyrs is large. but the mixture of irony, childhood memories and lines of classic fairy tale are pieces of expected success. the old recipes is strict used. and the flavor of warm space, nice and protective is remarkable. a form of propaganda ? of course ! but , in same time, proof of courage. because tradition is root of a touching animation. and the story is created as lovely gift for each age. trip in the rooms of childhood, it is a lesson about national values. and a great work.

This is not a typical Russian fairytale but quite the opposite. I see some of the characters in the story which behave not exactly like people would expect if they know a bit from the Russian folklore. There are a lot funny stuff which does not end with just simple visual jokes but extend to quite good sense of humor. However many people might not understand what is so funny in many of the scenes because they are not familiar with the Russian fairy tales. I recommend people to watch this movie with the original sound and voice acting because the story and the graphic are good but what really made the movie for me are actors that gave their voices to make this beautiful piece of work. I've noticed that many good movies with good voice acting will lose their charm if the voice is not the original. The music is also very good and it fits and completes the movie really well. After i watched the movie i felt like there could have been made more in between some of the scenes. That is why i gave 9 instead of 10. There are a few minor problems which i do not feel the need to tell you because the movie is too good in my eyes especially compare to the most animes which come in a very nice outfit(usually brilliant grapfic) but really poor story lines(sometimes very often even really twisted for my taste)which makes most of those movies one time show.

It's a typical Russian fairytale in a typical quite good Russian animation way. Characters created like Russian characters always - some pretty and some really ugly. Dobrynya Nikitich goes to save duke's cousin Zabava from a three-head dragon Gorynych. It's not an easy job for him and his young student Jelissei. But Dobrynya doesn't know that duke himself stands in a difficult position and is not interested in saving his cousin. Even the famous Russian witch Baba-Jaga comes in to the story. It's an adventurous story with some good laughs (for example when Khans teeth fly out; Jelissei with a blue eye - his facial expression is really good; Russian working ladies singing a very well performed song and also dancing along with it (they are almost like Russian version of Finnish band Värttinä) & when Dobrynya handles the betrayal). It's still a good animation to watch, although the ending is more than predictable. Overall 6/10