1/10
Could someone get that cat off the synthesizer!? *SPOILERS*
6 May 2002
Warning: Spoilers
Cherez Ternii K Zvyozdam - a.k.a. Humanoid Woman is one of those films that you wonder why it was made in the first place. Soviet films usually consist of brightly-colored retellings of traditional Russian folktales and the like. They're usually obscenely cheerful and try to make you feel happy. This one doesn't. It has a surprisingly large budget for a Soviet Film (underwater scenes and using surplus cosmonaut stuff.) But that didn't save it. The whole plot is basically this: cosmonauts find a space station that has quite a number of clones on it. Taking the eldest of the clones back with them to their home, they try to accommodate her to life on earth. Seeing she won't fit in, they return her to her people. Upon arriving at her planet, they find that the place is in chaos. There was some kind of disaster that forced everyone underground. The final water supply for the people was poisoned, so when they cosmonauts try to do something with it, a large mass of white foam forms. Exciting in very few places, boring in most, this film is bad, but not the worst I've seen. I have to agree with Icehole's assessment of Niya: she's a brillo pad on a stick with bulging eyes. Worst of all is the incidental music, that sounds like a cat jumping around on a synthesizer in most places.

Avoid this one if at all possible.
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