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Moonzy: Homecoming
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Konstantin Bronzit
Written by	Konstantin Bronzit Darina Shmidt Dmitriy Vysotskiy
Based on	Moonzy
Produced by	Aleksandr Boyarsky Sergey Selyanov Anton Zlatopolskiy
Starring	Anna Slynko Yuliya Zorkina Oleg Kulikovich Anatoly Petrov Mariya Tsvetkova Valerii Smekalov
Music by	Mikhail Chertishchev
Production companies	Melnitsa Animation Studio CTB Film Company
Distributed by	Volga
Release date	29 August 2024 (2024-08-29)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽150 million
Box office	$5.4 million

Moonzy: Homecoming, also known as Moonzy. Returning Home (Russian: Лунтик. Возвращение домой, romanized: Luntik. Vozvrashchenie domoy), formerly known as Moonzy and the Big Journey (Russian: Лунтик и большое путешествие, romanized: Luntik i bol'shoe puteshestvie, lit. 'Luntik and the Big Journey') is a 2024 Russian animated adventure film directed and written by Konstantin Bronzit, and based on the Moonzy television series. The plot follows Moonzy, who goes on an adventure to return to the moon, by going to a mountain.

A sequel, Moonzy: The Other Side of the Moon, is scheduled to be released on 27 August 2026.

Plot

An old moth scientist finds a piece of moonshell falling from the moon and landing into a pond, and goes out to discover it. Moonzy, a lunar bee, emerges from the shell.

One year later, Moonzy and his friends, Flip, a grasshopper, and Woopie and Poopsie, two caterpillars, pays a visit to the moth, in who he finds his shell. The moth hypnotizes Moonzy, and he has a vision of the location of where he was born, the moon, and his mother, but a meteorite struck his home, causing him to fly into the Earth. The moth declines Moonzy to reconcile with his mother, leading to a brawl started by Woopsie and Poopsie, before the group flees the lab. The moth sedates Moonzy and his friends after a chase.

The next day, Moonzy and his friends wake up on a leaf, finding a mountain. En route, they are cornered by the moth, but Moonzy and his friends escape on a dragonfly. Flip accidentally knocks Moonzy's shell into a hole. Woopsie and Poopsie pull Moonzy down the hole to retrieve his shell.

Nearing the mountain, the group is chased by a purple centipede. They incapacitate the centipede and reach the mountain. Before Moonzy can return to the moon, they are attacked by the centipede. The moth arrives and throws a bag of sleeping pellets onto Moonzy's moonshell, allowing him to defeat the centipede with it. Moonzy then returns to the moon, and reconciles with his mother. Moonzy then returns to Earth, reconciling with her friends. Meanwhile, the centipede climbs back up the cliff it fell into, revealing it is still alive.

Cast

• Anna Slynko as Moonzy, a purple lunar bee
• Mariya Tsvetkova as Moonzy's Mom
• Yuliya Zorkina as Flip, a grasshopper / Granny Annie
• Oleg Kulikovich as Woopsie and Poopsie, twin caterpillars
• Anatoly Petrov as General Stringer / Mr. Webber the Spider / Mr. Diggins
• Valerii Smekalov as an old moth scientist

Production

The original script for the film was written in 2013 and finalized in early 2023. The film was officially announced in March 2023. On 17 March 2023, Konstantin Bronzit stated that the film will be a "road movie" and will be finished by the end of 2023, but at the time, the release date was not yet announced.

Release

The film was released in Russia on 29 August 2024.

Reception

Moonzy: Homecoming has an 80 score based on two critic reviews on Kritikanstvo.

Sequel

A sequel, Moonzy: The Other Side of the Moon (Russian: Лунтик. Обратная сторона Луны, romanized: Luntik. Obratnaya storona Luny) is scheduled to be released on 27 August 2026. The project was officially presented by CTB Film Company at the in-person defense of the animated national projects of the Film Foundation on September 24, 2025. According to industry publications, the film will be a direct sequel to Moonzy: Homecoming (2024) and will take place on the Moon.

During the project's presentation, it was announced that the main action of the film would take place on the Moon, where Moonzy and his friends would go. According to producer Sergey Selyanov, the new story would be related to the search for Moonzy's father and would continue the storyline from the first film. It was also reported that the characters would use a constructed vehicle or a rocket, and that the film would feature elements of the lunar world that were not previously shown in the series. The concept art for the project was presented at the same event.

Cast

• Anna Slynko as Moonzy, a purple lunar bee
• Mariya Tsvetkova as Moonzy's Mom
• Maksim Sergeev as Moonzy's Dad
• Yuliya Zorkina as Flip, a grasshopper / Granny Annie
• Oleg Kulikovich as Woopsie and Poopsie, twin caterpillars
• Konstantin Bronzit as a raven
• Anatoly Petrov as General Stringer / Mr. Webber the Spider / Mr. Diggins
• Valerii Smekalov as an old moth scientist
• Anton Savenkov as a swammer
• Anatoly Dubanov as stickers

External links

• Moonzy: Homecoming at IMDb