The Irony of Fate 2
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Budget 5 million USD Country Russia | 5.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 21 December 2007 (2007-12-21) Initial release December 21, 2007 (Russia) Screenplay Timur Bekmambetov, Konstantin Ernst, Anatoly Maksimov, Emil Braginsky, Alexei Slapovski Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy (Kostya Lukashin), (Надя), Sergei Bezrukov (Ираклий), (Evgeniy Lukashin), Yuriy Yakovlev (Ippolit Georgievich), (Nadezhda Vasilevna)Similar movies Related Timur Bekmambetov movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation (Russian: Ирония Судьбы. Продолжение; Ironiya sud’by. Prodolzheniye) is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Alexey Slapovskiy produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm. It is a direct sequel of the first The Irony of Fate.
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It was originally rumored to be put in production in a press release, dedicated to the original movie's 30th anniversary in 2005.
Irony of Fate earned $55,000,000 in total from its gross box-office release, with $49,000,000 coming from the Russian box-office alone.
Plot
The characters from the first film now have children who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, the story is not simply a remake of the original movie. All of the adventures in the previous film were accidental, but here everything is done according to a plan thought up by Pavlik, a friend of Evgeniy Lukashin.
Pavlik's idea is to help his friend Evgeniy with his loneliness so he dispatches Lukashin's son to St. Petersburg, where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In flat 12, he meets Nadezhda, who is actually the daughter of Nadezhda from the first film. She has a fiancé called Irakliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Irakliy away from the flat and then wait for Nadezhda's mother to come; he then makes her call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to St Petersburg.
The plot becomes a story of two fights over a woman: Konstantin vs. Irakliy and Evgeniy vs. Ippolit. In the end Lukashin overcomes the competition because Irakliy turns out to be too tedious for Nadya, and Nadezhda understands that she was never truly in love with Ippolit.
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Supporting cast
Reception
The film received positive reviews from Film.ru, Time Out, KG, Kinomania and a number of other publications. Online newspaper Lenta.ru praised the films cast, humor and atmosphere but criticized the picture for excessive product placement.
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The Irony of Fate 2 WikipediaThe Irony of Fate 2 IMDb The Irony of Fate 2 themoviedb.org