YMMV / Children VS Wizards

• Anvilicious: Orthodox Russians: good, wizards: bad.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • When Kupriyanich and Petrovich discuss the threat of mages invading Russia, the story cuts to a brief history of a secret evil organization known as "the Order," which became an enemy during the Christianization of Rus and sought to bring it down by all means possible, playing a key role on the downfall of the Byzantine Empire and causing several conflicts throughout history while declaring war on Orthodox Christianity. However, this organization is never mentioned again and doesn't affect the main plot.
  • Ivan enters Professor Kosch's office to interrogate him on where Nadia and Peter are held, breaks a bonsai oak, and finds a Fabergé crystal egg hidden there, said to have been lost since WWII. While Ivan uses it as leverage to coerce Kosch into leading him to the school's dungeon where Nadia and Peter are held, it serves nothing to the main plot. It is just there as an excuse to brag about Russian culture. Moreover, the egg is never brought up again afterward.
• Don't Shoot the Message: Not even Orthodox Russians like this movie. As BadComedian puts it, the movie unites everyone of every nationality in hatred of it, Russian or otherwise.
• Fridge Brilliance: Why did a Russian military instructor read stories to the cadets in their bunk? A good military leader is a Father to His Men and a good father reads bedtime stories to his children.
• Fridge Logic: The Global Congress plans to turn everyone into wizards/witches as part of its plans to Take Over the World, despite wizardry in the Potterverse being genetic in nature. The best it can achieve is a worldwide Magocracy, where wizards/witches rule over non-magic people.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Elya's "shut up, you Russian pig" outburst, and Arkady's "you're gonna die, Russian scum" line became memorable because of how on-the-nose they are on their villainy. Professor Kosch's "You'll be fed leaden pies" threat also became memorable because of how silly it sounds.
  • Geronda's "There's nothing more important than the importance of a mission."
  • Non-Russian viewers also note that Ivan bears an uncanny resemblance to Draco Malfoy, only that he's a soldier who goes after wizards as a whole rather than "mudbloods."
• Rooting for the Empire: Some detractors of the movie are supportive of the Global Congress since it has been shown to seamlessly integrate wizards and non-magic people in one coherent geopolitical movement.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: The book this film is based on is technically illegally published Harry Potter Hate Fic. The adaptation understandably removes overt HP elements and replaces them with lookalikes.
• So Bad, It's Good: The film's laughably Anvilicious tract along with inept production makes for an amusing watch.
• Special Effects Failure: All over the place, due to the poor CGI and rigging. Not helping matters is that the three founders of the "Charitable Foundation of Help and Cooperation named after St. Sergius of Radonezh," Sergey Bezdelov, Denis Ovnachenko, and Vasily Yatskov were found to be involved with embezzlement schemes before the making of this film. Therefore, they could have blown the donation money on God-knows-what rather than on a professional animation team.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: When Kupriyanich shows a holographic recording of the HAOS' latest meeting, the first beats of the background music in that recording resemble those of Queen's "We Will Rock You".
• Tear Jerker: The Serbian nun in the film tearfully explaining what the insurgents did to her village to the Russian soldiers who rescued her village from the Kosovo Liberation Army.
  Where have you been? We've been waiting for so long, nobody has survived. My granddaughter has been killed by Albanians, my uncle was shot, and even all the nuns of the mountain were killed, all of them.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: For an animated movie for children, it's an unsubtle religious and nationalistic Author Tract that heavily involves war, violence and politics, even if all these elements are toned down from the books.

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