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The tribulations of Slava Kolotiloff: Slava is hit by a car driven by Nadia. Immediately he convinces Nadia to give up her marriage with Danya. Then Slava has returned to Palchiki and is quite ready to take the train back to Moscow. Then begins the real comedy : Slava is attraped in Palchiki, he has become coach of a soccer team and is telling lies to Nadia !! Slava meets a street boy and from them these orphan boys will steal the show by their acrobatic skills !!

A pleasant comedy with a good cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Milla Jovovich, Ivan Urgant ,Olga Tumaykina and Sergey Garmarsh.

The comedy itself varies between mildly amusing to very funny (like when Jovoch's character loses it completely). But what makes the film special to me is the sub polt about the street kids. The portayal is realistic and they are treated with dignity. It's a pretty realistic picture of Putin's Russia.

The movie starts out in Moscow - a man is hit by a car in which a young couple is going to a registry office to get married. But it turns out that the victim and the girl fall in love with each other and the girl dumps her fiancé. The man starts dating the girl and in a week he makes an offer to her to marry him which she happily takes. However, the man is from another city so he has to work off at his job for 2 weeks and then get back to Moscow to marry her. At his last day in the town, he is barely in time on his train to Moscow when he is taken as a soccer coach by mistake and compelled to stay in his home town until he doesn't do his job as the coach. He has to assemble a soccer team and take part in city soccer tournament to be able to get out of town. And then an adventure begins! I'm not a big fan of Russian movies but this particular movie was a fun and I didn't expect I would be absorbed by the storyline so much. The idea is not original, but it is well-staged and played.

I really liked this movie :)

I dont know Russian so i watched it with subtitle, the sub was at some parts a bit unclear but its ok i still managed to understand the movie.

Im not a fan of comedy that much but this one was really good, really funny ; i enjoyed watching it.

This is one of those that you know what happen in the end (it kinda spoil itself cause of the simple storyline, like all comedy movies thats why im not into comedy so much ) but yet you're interested in the story and want to know what happen between because it is just fun..!

By the way Lucky trouble is now somewhere in my top 50 favourite movies!!

If you can look past the pre-World Cup campaign and Urgand/Khabensky duo that is clearly miscast and is fed by Russian movie industry as the Russian international stars, the movie is actually very nice. Kids most certainly stole the show. Their athletic ability, as well as acting, was absolutely superb. The "star" cast was sub-par, Jovovich overplays her part, Urgand is out of place. He is an extremely talented show host and comic improviser, but he is not an actor. Well, maybe not yet. Khabensky seems to be playing the same guy in every movie (aside from Admiral). His character always seems to be drunk. All in all, worth watching with the family. A solid 6 stars.