My Sweet Monster

Not to be confused with My Sweet Mobster.

My Sweet Monster
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Viktor Glukhushin Maksim Volkov
Written by	Maksim Volkov Aleksandr Arkhipov (ru) Dmitry Novoselov (ru)
Produced by	Sergey Selyanov (ru) Georgi Gitis
Music by	Mikhail Chertishchev (ru) Georgy Zheryakov (ru)
Color process	Color
Production companies	CTB Film Company Skazka Animation Studio Cinema Fund Luminescence
Distributed by	Vlgfilm.ru
Release dates	October 6, 2021 (2021-10-06) (Netherlands) April 28, 2022 (2022-04-28) (Russia)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽330 million

My Sweet Monster (Russian: Бука. Моё любимое чудище) is a 2021 Russian animated musical film directed by Viktor Glukhushin and Maksim Volkov. The film was produced by CTB Film Company. The film was released in Russia on April 28, 2022.

The U.S. release of the English dub by Lionsgate features the voices of Haylie Duff, Jon Heder, and Pauly Shore.

Plot

Barbara is a young princess who has always dreamed of marrying a prince, but King Elijah, her father, always declines her dreams. Bundy Joyce, a postman, delivers a love letter from Prince Edward to Barbara. She accidentally shares the letter to Elijah, and he tells her not to think about Edward. At her wedding, Barbara is forced to marry Joyce, but she flees the palace, while Joyce gives chase on a motorcycle. The two end up in a forest, where Bogey, a monster, abducts Barbara, and takes her to his hideout.

There, Barbara gets to know Bogey, and she asks him to take her to Edward's palace to marry Edward. Meanwhile, Joyce tells Elijah about Barbara's kidnapping. Elijah explains to Joyce that a magic liquid dubbed "the Spark", which animates objects to life, was retrieved from a fountain by Elijah's soldiers 16 years prior to cure Barbara from an illness. Joyce then builds robots with the Spark to find Bogey. As Barbara and Bogey embark on a journey to Edward's palace, the two camp in a cave, where a rabbit, Bogey's friend, shares that Bogey was originally a human, and got lost wandering in the magic forest, when he was turned into a monster by the fountain, and was then tasked with protecting the forest.

Meanwhile, the following day, Joyce learns about the fountain, and sets off to find it. Barbara and Bogey reach Edward's palace, but she decides to go into the palace alone. There, she meets Edwardina, who reveals that "Edward" is not real, and all of the messages sent to every woman in the world are auto-reply letters made by a printing machine. Edwardina then imprisons Barbara in a hotel room. Bogey arrives and frees Barbara. Joyce and his robots reach the fountain, capture Bogey and Barbara, and drains the fountain. However, Elijah intervenes and disables Joyce's robots. Joyce drinks up the Spark from a pumping tank to turn himself into a monster. A tornado forms above the fountain which sucks in Joyce and drains out the fountain. Barbara, Bogey, and the rabbit lose their magic with the fountain gone. Bogey decides to step in and sacrifices himself to revive Barbara.

Many days later, as Barbara pays a visit to the fountain, the fountain refills, and Bogey is revived in his original human form.

Cast

Character	Russian	English
		International	US re-dub
Princess Barbara	Lyubov Aksyonova	¿?	Haylie Duff
	Violetta Volskaya (singing)
Bogey	Aleksey Chumakov	¿?	Jon Heder
Rabbit	Timur Rodriguez	Josh Wilson
		Barrett Leddy (singing)
Bundy Joyce	Prokhor Chekhovskoy	¿?	Pauly Shore
King Elijah	Maksim Volkov	Martin Cooke
Edwardina	Aliona Doletskaya	Olga Gunkina
Yes-Man Eric	Diomid Vinogradov	Martin Cooke
Nannies	Maksim Volkov	Olga Gunkina
Robot Stephan	Vladislav Kopp	¿?
Basil	Petr Ivashchenko	¿?
Postmaster		¿?

Reception

Common Sense Media said that "The songs are fine. Though the story is a little complex, it eventually comes together for a decent yet abrupt fairy-tale ending. Overall, it's standard stuff that most kids have seen before."

External links

• My Sweet Monster at IMDb