Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie

I would not say that the movie is awful, it is alright, but I would not call it a "sequel", which implies continuation of some story line. This is a modern remake, a very popular method among some producers and directors, who want to capitalize on the old idea and get some cash without spending too much time on a script.

The "sequel" copies the scenes from the first movie one after another. They even left the car crash scene! Come on, you could be more creative than that..

New actors play well, old ones are OK, but they do not really contribute to the movie, mostly serving as a background for attracting older generation to the screen.

I think that a lot of people who posted comments on this website got annoyed by the above facts and gave movie extremely low votes.

However, there are good things about the film too.

First of all - this is my personal opinion with which you can disagree - there are no long and boring songs in the sequel.

Secondly, it is good to see even a slight attempt to try and make a good movie. Of course, today's filmmakers are far from Gaydai and Riazanov, but still it is better than the stupidity of "The Best Movie".

Finally, I should say that most of young people - I am talking about 20-25 year old - liked the movie. Hence there is a hope that future generations will appreciate classics and won't degrade to monkey level.

That is why it is 5 from me

My wife and I used to watch the original every new year but gave up a couple of years ago. Watching of film evry new year became a tradition in Russia many years ago as it put people in the party mood because of it's New Year's storyline and romance factor.

We found the sequel recently and have just finished watching it (again) and have to say this is absolutely brilliant. We lent it to some friends a few weeks ago and they enjoyed it so much that they went and bought their own copy which even their friends have borrowed. It's great fun, great laughs and great irony. We consider it deservedly gets a 10/10 in our family's books.

A one-joke 3 hour marathon of boring agony which would have made a worthy 20-30-minute film. Utter travesty that just gets stupider & more braindead as it goes. The last 2 hours were unbearable. Only the English subtitles kept me from zooming through the entire thing. If this is the best of Soviet cinema--myyyyy looooord--no wonder the system collapsed. They had no sense of humor.

I'm not one who cares for cold showers or jumping into icy water in the dead of winter which some think is good for one's health, but I would have preferred that to the torture of watching this idiocy. Many other types of torture also come to mind as preferably to this din of mental nothingness.

If you liked the first movie you will definitely like this one... It's worth to be watched.. sure better after seeing the first part... some things never get old... this one won't also... :-) the old actors are all there... the mood is there... its funny.. its romantic.. music is fantastic.. it brings good and nice feelings.. memories.. really do not agree with the Canadian critic above that "If there is one lesson that could be drawn from this movie, it is this: do not touch old Soviet classics! Does anyone really think it is possible to produce a sequel to a movie thirty years after it came out on the screens? " sure its possible.. anything is possible..Come on man.. what do you know about the feeling of old soviet movies..? am not from Russia.. still.. if you know the language and are able to enjoy a good movie.. you will definitely enjoy this one..

The movie is not really fun to watch, because originally the movie was really good it had a meaning, this movie? Its like someone just copy pasted the whole thing and just added some new charecters. The soviet times was really good for movies, they made sense had diffrent endings, but nowadays there is just some guy that messes up, something bad happens then they save the day, and thats it. I mean all the movies nowadays arent that bad, its just that people have to stop making sequels of good movies like these. They are originals!!!!!