Russia already has its share of Sex and the City corollaries. First there was the dubbed U.S. original (translated as "Sex in the Big City"). Then came The Balzac Age [Бальзаковский Возраст], a show about four women who dissect each other's love lives at Moscow's banyas and cafes. And now they're bending the genre with Love in the Big City [Любовь в большом городе], a film about a trio of horny Russian guys living in New York. The trailer kicks off with doppelgängers of Carrie Bradshaw and Co. strolling through Central Park as the three protagonists jog by in silly windbreakers. Cue the pervy voice-over.

“Sex in the city? That’s no problem.” No, the problem for these oversexed bachelors, it turns out, is the sudden onset of erectile dysfunction. “My Winnie The Pooh refuses to reach for the tree hole. Honey doesn’t interest him anymore," one character laments. Then we get a blast of an emotional pop song about a "dying battery." Yes, this is the real plot. It seems St. Valentine, played by aging pop singer Filipp Kirkorov (his shirt says “If You’re Not With Us You Can Kirkor-Off”), has placed a flaccidity curse on our three amigos. The antidote? Duh. “Find love!” Not surprisingly, all three friends do find much better-looking better halves.

Director Marius Weisberg is also the brains behind Hitler Kaput, the Mel Brooks-style World War II spoof that got a lot of confused buzz in fall of last year. This latest wisely leaves the war veterans alone, but that's not to say it isn't puzzling in its own right.

Surely all of this will make sense when we see the movie (which will probably be never), but how is it that all the characters in this New York-based movie are Russian? Sure, the men could be expats, but every woman they meet appears to be Russian, too. And these guys all own swanky Manhattan apartments. If they're such lovable losers, why are they living like exiled oligarchs? Then again, how did Carrie Bradshaw afford all those Jimmy Choos on a sex columnist's salary? We could make ourselves crazy this way...

Любовь в большом городе [Rutube.ru]