YMMV / Morozko

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • In the uncut version, the village girls that come out of nowhere and start to sing as Ivan leaves home is never commented on or brought up again.
  • At one point the movie basically stops, and we have a scene with baby bears moving giant mushrooms around. It doesn't advance the plot in any way, it doesn't make any sense, but damned if it's not adorable.
  • Ivanuska spanking Baba Yaga qualifies.
    Crow: So the premise of this movie is that everybody is nuttier than all get-out?
• Common Knowledge: It's often misremembered that Ivan wakes Nastenka up from being frozen with a kiss much like Sleeping Beauty. A simple apology is enough to do the trick. Even the remake changes it to a kiss.
• Hollywood Homely: The actress playing Marfushka isn't actually ugly, but she spends the vast majority of the film pouting, whining, making faces and being a Spoiled Brat, which all add up to a pretty unattractive effect.
• Moe: Nastenka.
• Moment of Awesome: "Bring on my fiancee. And my dowry! A really big dowry and MAKE IT QUICK!"
  • Doubles as a Funny Moment at the same time, especially when Father Frost starts calling out for help.
• Narm: Most of the film, but in the English dubs, some man does "Hunchback Fairy"'s voice, ending up sounding like Eric Idle's drag voice in Monty Python's Flying Circus. The original actor and voice for Baba Yaga were a man, though, Georgiy Millyar, so a man dubbing "her" voice.
  • When Baba Yaga is put into the oven, she calmly yells "Ooooh I'm cooking! I'm roasting!"
• So Bad, It's Good: Quite a few MST3K fans agree that this is one of the few movies the show featured that's entertaining with and without the SOL crew's riffing.
• Special Effect Failure: Ivan's bear makeup.
  • Any reason for the cartoon sound effects, such as the clanging pot whenever Baba Yaga hits herself in the head?
    • Because it's a broad slapstick comedy made for kids. It pretty much is a live-action cartoon.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Nastenka's Heroic Sacrifice for the sake of her father is played straight and surprisingly effective.
    Nastenka: Good-bye, Daddy... Remember your daughter who loved you...
  • Father Frost beating himself up and calling himself dunce, nitwit, and donkey when forgetting his scepter is Played for Laughs. When he returns home and finds Nastenka frozen, it becomes this.
    Father Frost: You idiot. You dunce. You nitwit. You donkey. You didn't watch over her.

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