Watched this Russain movie made in 1986. For that year, I think the movie’s fairly advanced in thought. The only aspect I couldn’t swallow was that the main protagonist kept returning to ensure the safety of the two idiots who’ve made him suffer while on the planet Plyuk. Apart from that, nothing seemed far-fetched enough.

The word “Koo” used to mean a multitude of words on the other planet’s vocabulary.
The two different scenarios of how the movie ends – the violinist coming back after six earth years only to find that his name’s been discredited because he ‘stole’ the precious violin or both the violinist and Uncle Vova returning to find each other at the very same moment right before they were transported to Plyuk.

Most of the inhabitants of Plyuk live under the ground. Everything visible above ground is mainly a deception.

The possibility that inhabitants of any other planet with life would, in all probability, be as stupid as human beings, with differences in what racism is practiced in – for example – on earth, there’s racism based on the color of the skin whereas on Plyuk, it’s based on what color their magnetic remote glows when pointed onto a person – orange is a Chatlian while green is a Pastak.

Hilariously enjoyable, it had it’s moments of insanely imaginative storyline and aptly confusing incidents, “What the hell was that?”

The ‘aliens’ trying to make money with their limited singing skills. The only word in the song being, you guessed it, “Koo”.

The only allowed abuse in their vocabulary is “Ku”. Too close to the only other much-used word. Probably a play on how confusing our own languages can be? We use “Fucker” when referring to our best friends and also while referring to someone who’s fucked us up. Many such moments thrown together in the movie make it very watchable without being confounded. And yet, it’s new enough to not make you feel jaded – I haven’t seen anything like this earlier.

The aliens, together with the two Earthlings, trying to make more money singing along and using the violin, which I might add, no one knows how to play – especially after it has been smashed to bits and then repaired with whatever parts that could be salvaged.

Since you expect it to be a crazy movie from the moment the dial is turned, the fact that the “aliens” speak Russian as well as the two Earthlings, doesn’t come as quite a surprise.

Kin Dza Dza is one of those movies that I’d like to keep in my collection. Not too heavy on the philosophy unless you stop and think [ which would be a bad idea for this film ] and neither does it encourage slapstick. It’s a smooth ride with enough interest to make you want to keep going. Definitely worth a revisit maybe once a year – from my stash of must-sees.

The two Earthlings :

I liked the color palette of the movie and there are multiple scenes that look like they’ve been painted.