YMMV / Stilyagi

• Awesome Music: Mel's first performance. No contest.

• Ho Yay: Drin almost kisses Mel a couple of times.
• One-Scene Wonder: Oleg Yankovskiy as Fred's father gives the movie's most lauded performance, despite having about 5 minutes of screen time.
• Rooting for the Empire: it is perfectly possible for Russians to think the Komsomol was actually right and the stilyagi were wrong, since the flood of Western pop culture was one of the factors that contributed to the fall of the Union.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Mel's father reading a Soviet newspaper: "Look! A crisis in the U.S. economy!"

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