YMMV / Kin-Dza-Dza!

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A film about the destroyed world due to predatory over-capitalistic behaviors looks too prophetic now. Actually, in light of the chaos of what happened in real life after the Soviet Union collapsed, it might just as well be Harsher in Hindsight.
  • Raw resource trade was going on in Russia for centuries, with a few short pauses. The only difference are goods and destinations — initially that was rope and wood sold to England.
  • The way Vova and Fiddler's crude vocal performances easily woo Pluck's audience looks like a parody of today's bad pop music.
  • Fuelling stations: "They took away the woman, and put in a machine".
  • In general, the movie managed to predict and parody a lot of things that hadn't happened at the time.
  • And even before that - when we see PJ's hologram the Patsak near him is on his knees and acts like a dog around PJ. He is even referred as PJ's personal Patsak.
• Memetic Mutation: As happens with every single popular Soviet movie, phrases and entire dialogues became memes.
  • "Koo!"
  • "Fiddler isn't needed!"
  • Patsak (pronounced pacák) entered Hungarian slang as a synonym for 'dude'.
  • In 2008, Russian contestants for Eurovision sang the song "Mama" from this movie.
  • "Gravitsapa" (literally "gravi-grabber") is used in Russia as the name for Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun.
• Moment of Awesome: Uncle Vova, 'aiming' with a random pipe: "If you think that this thingy isn't a tranklucator, it'll be the last thought in your Chatlanian head!"

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