I like to look for a worst pieces of media I could find because I consider it a learning experience and in this way, Deti protiv Volshebnikov gives A LOT to learn from.
I've seen some bad movies. I watched a couple of bad slashers, I've seen most disgusting uhfunniest parodies out there, I've seen the Room, canadian Things, Neil Breen movies, but what makes this experience different is combination of atrocious dogmatism and Russian exceptionalism and absolute inability to make something that looks bearable. Every frame here looks like children drawing. Proportions are horrible, faces are unnatural, backgrounds are decent, but charecters don't exist in the same space with them.
But beyond ugliest movie known to humanity lies even uglier story. Main charecters are brave freedom fighters who came to destroy... children school. Because Russia considers a school that helps orphans a bad external influence, which is obviously performatively evil and depicted as ugly. And ugly people are obviously bad, so it's okay to bomb an entire island of children. You see, Russian's enemies are self-evidently evil, and it means no action against them is unprovoked.
In recent years this movie becomes only more disgusting and absolutely despicable. Considering that in real life it's Russian army that actually makes Ukrainian children orphans and takes them away from their families to russian's orphanages and families to give them proper "traditions", this movie becomes sad reminder that fascistic propaganda in the world is nowhere near to be dead and it's gonna raise it's ugly head many times more all over the world.
