It is probably wrong to expect a good fairy tale from the film, where the main role is played by the artist, whose usual jokes are always located just below the waist. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics who noted the "croaking of actors" and the overkill of "product placement." Maybe that's why the film is not about Carlson with Galustyan, but about Carloson.
general information
The fairy-tale comedy of 2012 by Sarik Andreasyan is called "That Still Carloson!". The Russian film has practically no connection with Astrid Lindgren’s children's books. Therefore, this film is not about Carlson, with Galustyan in the title role, but about Carloson. The creators of the painting specifically distorted the original name "men in the prime of life."
The premiere of the comedy was to be held on January 5, 2012, but later it was postponed to March 15. In the Russian television broadcast, the film about Carlson with Mikhail Galustyan was shown for the first time on the Friday channel in 2017.
Despite the fact that the film received mostly negative reviews from critics and conflicting from the audience, the film brought profit to its creators. The budget of the picture amounted to 110 million rubles, fees at the box office amounted to 308.2 million rubles. The director himself says that the audience warmly received the film, and he went to the cinema and saw people laughing.
World of Metrics
The hero of the comedy with Galustyan Carlson is a native of the magical and fairy-tale world of Metrics. Residents of a colorful country - small meter tall men, chubby, with big ears and a long nose, moderately well-fed. The main mission of fabulous creatures is to help young children, whom adults create problems rather than solve.
Metrics are shown only to children, but they have to do everything so that boring adults can not find out about the existence of a magical world. The most incredible adventures happen with the hero Galustyan Carlson, because he loves to run away into the real world of people to play pranks and mutilate a little. But metrics is a carefree, a little selfish and mischievous sweet tooth. He recently turned only 300 years old, and in his heart he is still a real child.
On a mission
One day, the elder of the Metrikov tribe gives Carloson a responsible assignment - to help the unfortunate Kid whose parents were about to get a divorce.
A good seven-year-old boy Toddler is a little reserved, so he has almost no friends. Parents do not refuse him anything, buying electronic toys and various gadgets. But the appearance of the best friend in the world dramatically changes the life of the Kid. True, no one believes him, considering Carloson the fruit of his unhealthy imagination.
Criticism
According to the specialized aggregator Criticism, only one positive review and one more neutral was found on the Internet; all other media resources either ignored the premiere of Carlson and Galustyan, or wrote devastating reviews. Another resource, Megacritic, found 10 published reviews, and only one was neutral, all others were negative.
The critic Eric M. Kaufman noted that the images are caricatured, the actions are stupid, the play of the actors, including good ones, was called antics. The picture is oversaturated with "hidden advertising", which is actually very striking.
Alexander Kornev noted that all the classical questions of responsibility for committed acts, the theme of family values and the need for friendship were vulgarized. There are a lot of very jokes and elements of non-children's cinema: about a place near a bucket, cigars, backsides and so on.
Fedor Obzorkin notes that after all, the guys from Enjoy Movies, who made a film with Galustyan about Carlson, understand that they can’t follow everything in imitation of the private film studio specializing in adult films. It is worth noting the unfortunate scene when Carloson pulls out a condom and says to the Kid: "Let's go nuts?" Fedor gives as an example a joke with the visiting card of a strip club.
Viewers reviews
Perhaps the director of the film, who wrote that those who watch and those who write reviews, is completely different people. There are practically no positive reviews in Internet resources, including the largest - Kinopoisk.
Even those viewers who write that they laughed a lot while watching Carlson and Galustyan note quite joking jokes in this family film. For example, when Carloson uses a bird instead of a pebble to shoot a slingshot, and when he gets into a satellite dish on the roof of the house, he laughs merrily.
Many viewers note that the filmmakers "abused" both the plot and the spirit of Lindgren's books. The film Carlson with Galustyan does not teach true friendship, but explains to children why condoms are needed, how and when to steal, so as not to be punished, teaches to despise teachers. However, the director himself said that many would like to see the adaptation of Soviet cartoons and therefore are disappointed.
In many reviews, viewers note that the producers coped well with their task, collecting money from many advertisers. In this connection, close-ups of rubber products No. 2, "Playboy", iPhone and other goods constantly flash.