The movie is quite depressing - because it (metaphorically) depicts how Russians (and many other countries) lived back in 80's. What is more depressing - very little has changed in Russia (and the whole world) 23 years later. The Danelia's symbolism applies to many traits of the modern society. For instance, in the movie colored pants show social status the same way as designer clothing, expensive cars and real estate do it in our reality.A spectator who speaks both Russian and Georgian has a definite advantage, because many of the made-up alien words have Georgian roots. I am not sure of the subtitles are adequate in this case. If I could ignore all the cultural references and loaded words - I would probably find this flick amusing.

Vladimir Nikolaevich and Skripach are two Earthlings who inexplicably find themselves transported to an alien planet, a vast post-apocalyptic desert, populated by greasy caricatures of people speaking an autistic, monosyllabic language, and strewn with an assortment of peculiar buildings of all shapes and sizes.If there's one thing you can't take away from KIN DZA DZA is that it is imaginative and to an extent a pleasantly absurd sci-fi adventure romp. It is mostly light-hearted fare but not, as it appears, with something of a cerebral nature hiding behind the surface. There is a passing mention on racism and equality but it's never too serious. Where it faulters is in assuming a succession of encounters with cartoonish characters and visits in cartoonish places is enough to sustain its 126 minute length.The best parts of the movie are easily the location work and the set-design. While the camera-work leaves a lot to be desired, the desert landscapes carry with them an air of natural awe. Some of the truly fantastic set-pieces construced include a ferris-wheel in the middle of the desert surrounded by old cabins, a gigantic balloon, a toilet-cum-escape-pod and a weird underground complex where hundreds of people slave away on some kind of labour.The inhabitants of this alien planet speak in a weird language. Every minute someone's saying "Koo!" to someone else, "koo" substituting for almost every word. They call matches "Ketse", their cylindrical spaceships that looks like cans of beans "Pepelats". There are also different races on this planet, the "Chatlans" and the "Patsak" chief among them. This kind of baboonish banter however soon outstays its welcome and becomes a major annoyance. Also, "We don't need Skripanch" seems to be a running joke similar to THE BIG LEBOWSKI's "Shut up Donnie!".Take away however all the little gimmicks KIN DZA DZA consists of and there's no story left to hold it together. The two earthlings simply wander from one place to the next trying to return home, stopping occasionally to sing inside a wooden cage. That's it. A bunch of weird ideas, locations and characters strung together to no purpose. Is it simply a pastiche? An allegory to something? A ready-made cult curio? You be the judge.

Do not behave like Chutlanin! U might be tranckluckated.=)))Kin-dza-dza is standing so far from modern examples of cinematographic "art" that makes any comparison to be a nonsense.It is not only a movie.It is kind of a filosophic ballad. Very smart,ironic and very humanistic one. As a rule,all of those "high-minded" pictures are pretty pretentious and bored. True. But "Kin-dza-dza" is so wit-minded and humorous that you can watch it a lot of times.As for you - cgonzalezdelhoyo - you are to see this film at least 10 times because its gonna be entertainment for your brain.I hope it helps you make difference between piece of garbage and piece of FINE ART!

First of all, sorry for my bad English. :) "Kin-dza-dza" is not a sci-fi at all, actually. This film just uses some stereotypes, the outer seeming of sci-fi. It's not a "classical" anti-utopia also. And it has little in common with "Star Wars". :) "Kin-dza-dza" is a kind of absurdism, in my opinion. Like Kafka or some of David Lynch works, for example… or rather "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Catch 22", in some (humorous) ways. "Kin-dza-dza" uses "reductio ad absurdum" method and surrealistic symbolism to help us open and clear our mind for new aspects, new point of view on human and society, and even humankind. If you understand that fact it helps you to understand the film.Unfortunately it will be not so easy for non-Russian(/Soviet) audience to catch the degree of absurdism, symbolism and how to correlate them to reality. Especially, without high-quality translation and comments. But never say "never", as you know.