Animation / KikoRiki Animated Films

Carlin: My friends and I live happily right here in a distant paradise. Peace, quiet and tranquility, completely untouched by... well, I don't even know what it's untouched by. We've never been touched.
Rosa: I was just touched by a touching romance novel.
Olga: I baked some cookies with a touch of nutmeg.
Krash: I'm touching my nose with my tongue.
Carlin: Will you guys get out of here?
Dokko: No need to get... touchy.
Carlin: Hey, I said we were happy, I didn't say we weren't off our rockers! Anyway, welcome to our home, KikoRiki! Safety, beauty, friendship, we got it. If you're looking for excitement, purpose and a chance to really shine... not our thing, really. Not that I'm complaining, an old bird like me... Who needs that stuff? Okay boys, queue the crescendo.

Narration at the beginning of KikoRiki. Team Invincible

From 2011 to 2018 three CGI movies were released in the KikoRiki series:

• KikoRiki. Team Invincible (2011) ^note Смешарики. Начало (KikoRiki. Beginning), also advertised overseas as Kikoriki: The Movie - A prequel set before the original series. Krash and Chiko find a television in one of the caves, from which they and their friends learn about the "Lucien Show". Believing everything shown to be real, KikoRiki decide to set off to a giant city in hopes of helping Lucien fight the crime.
• KikoRiki. Legend of the Golden Dragon (2016) ^note Смешарики. Легенда о Золотом Драконе, also advertised in UK as Super Furry Animals - Dokko invents Improveriser, a helmet that allows you to swap bodies with somebody else. Hoping to use it to make himself better, Wally accidentally swaps minds with a caterpillar. The situation is further complicated by a Celestial Deadline he's put in, the conflict with the natives, who think Wally is "The Golden Dragon" that will save them from some kind of disaster, and interference from Lara and Diesel, a pair of tomb raiders who only care about the "Golden" part.
• KikoRiki. Deja Vu (2018) ^note Смешарики. Дежавю, also advertised in UK as The Time Team - Krash wants to make Barry an unforgettable birthday party, so he calls the DejaVu agency, who specialize in time travel, to help. Not knowing for sure what kind of parties do they offer and his failure to pay up causes his friends to be scattered across various time periods. Now Krash has to team up with his Alternate Self to find his friends while trying to avoid being obliterated by Mole, a soft-spoken but ruthless intern with a desire to become an Employee of the Month.

The movies differ from the original shorts by having more focused plot and the aversion of No Antagonist, which the series was known for. Team Invincible was also the first in the series to use CGI, which would be carried over for some of the later projects in the series.

The films provide examples of:

In General

• A Day in the Limelight: While the entire Ensemble Cast of the series is present and plays some role, each film puts spotlight on one of the main characters: Barry for Team Invincible, Wally for Legend of the Golden Dragon and Krash for Deja Vu.
• Big Bad:
  • Dr. Caligari from "Lucien's Show" is presented as such in Team Invincible. The actor playing him, Eugine, turns out to be a long-time friend of Barry's and the real main antagonist is the Boss, a director of their show who uses its fame to distract the citizens and commit theft.
  • Lara and Diesel in Legend of the Golden Dragon, a pair of tomb raiders, who decide to use Wally to their wit and get a golden statue from Chameleon natives.
  • Mole in Deja Vu, an agent from the Deja Vu agency, who wants to get rid of the KikoRiki due to Krash not being able to pay for his services, and get back the Chrono-Clicker that Krash took away from him, all for the sake of promotion.
• Big Damn Movie: The original shorts are about an everyday life of KikoRiki in their own isolated country with no antagonistic characters and the world outside of the place they live in is usually not explored. All three of the films are more dramatic, have clear antagonists to them and most of the time take place outside of protagonists' hometown.
• Darker and Edgier: Not by much, but the films are overall more serious than the shorts. Take Team Invincible for example - the gang visits a city filled with corruption, Chiko and Pin get arrested after being mistaken for thieves (complete with realistic-looking shotguns being pointed at them) and have to be rescued by their friends, and at the end of the day a director of Barry's show turns out to be a criminal, who uses the show to distract unsuspecting viewers from his real plans. Definitely not something you'll see in the regular KikoRiki episode.
• Recurring Riff: The original show's intro Theme Tune is occasionally incorporated into the soundtrack, most notably in Deja Vu.
• The Stinger:
  • Team Invincible: After the credits end, we are shown that Eugene helped the police to arrest the Boss and his henchmen.
  • Legend of the Golden Dragon: Krash finds a business card of the Deja Vu agency.
  • Deja Vu: During the mid-credits scene, it is shown that Mole is Trapped in the Past, declaring himself "Hunter of the month". In the post-credit scene, there's a brief scene of Krash playing with a snow globe.

KikoRiki. Team Invincible

• Accidental Public Confession: Just a few minutes before Wally's news report, he accidentally left one of cameras on, which filmed the two robbers that framed Pin and Chiko coming into the studio to show Boss their stolen items while gloating how well their show works as a distraction, which was later shown during the Julien Show marathon.
• Air-Vent Passageway: Krash, Chiko, Barry and Pin escape from the prison through the ventilation.
• Big Damn Reunion: After Krash and Barry find Chiko in prison, the former is overjoyed and goes in for the hug, as the two friends were separated for a long time. This doesn't last long, as Barry interrupts them.
• Blatant Burglar: The two robbers that Chiko meets in the museum wear black masks and gloves.
• Camera Spoofing: Dokko uses this trick to allow Carlin to saw through the iron grate unhindered.
• Caught Up in a Robbery: Chiko finds himself a temporary home at the museum with the guard Pin until his friends can find him. Next night, he meets two robbers trying to steal valuable items and is lead to assume they work at the museum as cleaners, dim-wittingly assisting them in the robbery. After they drive away, the police arrives, mistakes Chiko and Pin for thieves, and arrests them. The rest of the movie revolves around the rest of the KikoRiki gang breaking the two out of jail.
• Ceiling Cling: Escaping from the hospital, Wally hides on the ceiling of the elevator for a some time.
• Deadly Rotary Fan: During the escape through the ventilation, Barry, Krash, Chiko and Pin almost get sucked into a huge fan.
• Disaster Dominoes: Krash accidentally destroys a cave he and Chiko found by trying expired popcorn and coughing loudly, though they at least get a chance to take a television with them.
• Domino Mask: Part of Lucien's attire. Rest of the KikoRiki have their own blue masks, mimicking him.
• Drawing Straws: After being put under quarantine, KikoRiki use this to choose who should escape and tell Lucien about their arrival. Wally ends up being the one. This is also how they realize Chiko is not with them.
• Elevator Failure: Due to the power outage, Barry, Krash, Chiko and Pin have to escape from the elevator into the ventilation.
• Foreign Re-Score: In the English dub of the film, the "Ягода-малинка" song that plays a few times in the original show is replaced with "Cherokee Shuffle", likely because it wouldn't have the cultural impact.
• Hobos: A homeless man with gloves and a cart gives Chiko advice to get to the museum.
• Heroic Fire Rescue: The first thing Lucien does on the screen is rescue a child from a burning house.
• Mythology Gag: Krash corrects the crooked camera in the same way as in the intro of the original show.
• Origins Episode: The film is set before the main series, and explains how Barry and Pin ended up on the KikoRiki island.
• Show Within a Show: "Lucien's Show", an extremely popular in-universe superhero show that stars Barry. Said show is pretty much the main driving point of the movie that convinced KikoRiki to leave their island and search for Lucien. After Barry is fired, the show is briefly rebranded into the "Julien Show", before being presumably shut down after Boss' arrest.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: When Barry is fired from his job and he leaves the TV studio, the music group starts singing a cheerful song about how everything is fine.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When the heroes arrive at the city's limits by water, they are confronted by the border patrol who start demanding their documents and boating license. Upon hearing that they don't have such and that they allegedly came "from the sea", the officers promptly arrest the whole party (sans Chiko) and place them under the quarantine.
• Wire Dilemma: Dokko doesn't know which of the two wires disables the alarm. He cuts both and turns off not just the alarm system, but all of the electricity in the city as well.

KikoRiki. Legend of the Golden Dragon

• Aborted Arc: The conference the KikoRiki were planning to attend is never brought up even once throughout the rest of the film.
• Be Yourself: The reason Wally even wanted to use Improveriser is because he felt he wasn't as good as his friends at anything (clever and nimble as Krash, strong as Barry, smart as Dokko), but soon realizes that no matter what, he prefers being himself.
• Celestial Deadline: Wally's body swap with a caterpillar is made worse by the fact that his new body starts going through pupation. Dokko notes that this is something one can't control, and if Wally becomes a butterfly before he can get his old body back they have no guarantee the body swap will work again. And unfortunately for them, getting back caterpillar in Wally's body turns out to be difficult.
• The Chief's Daughter: The Chief tries to get his daughter married to the Golden Dragon. Contrary to the trope, however, she is very unattractive.
• The Chosen One: Natives have a prophecy that claims their tribe will meet an uncertain doom, but will be saved by something known as "The Golden Dragon". When one of them finds Wally (after he swapped bodies with caterpillar), they assume he is the Golden Dragon. They were right... Sort of.
• Fake Action Prologue: The film starts with Wally, Krash, Chiko and Rosa escaping from a meteor shower through the jungle, before flying down on gliders and being eaten by a giant frog... Which turns out to be a video game they're playing while at Dokko's.
• Fun with Acronyms: The gang was planning to attend the FRED (Festival of Ranting Engineering Dweebs) conference.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: The movie uses this as a premise. Dokko has built an Improveriser, a helmet that can make two people swap their talents. Wally decides to use it to make himself better, but after accidentally swapping with a catterpillar, the gang learns that it swaps bodies as well. The other character to get her hands on the Improveriser is Lara, who uses Wally's body to get the gold from the natives. Later, while Wally tries to get his body back, both Lara and Diesel switch bodies with each other, and stay that way in the end of the film.
• Inconvenient Parachute Deployment: A caterpillar (In Wally's body) does this in Legend of the Golden Dragon. This causes Barry to accidentally break the plane's door and makes even more mishap as other KikoRikis try to land safely.
• Vocal Dissonance: Krash turns out to be able to sing with a gentle and thin voice. He then switches to his usual voice for a rap part of his song.

KikoRiki. Deja Vu

• Afraid of Clowns: Chiko is shown to be terribly afraid of clowns due to Krash's Arbor Day stunt. Ironically, when Krash tries to order some clowns for Barry's upcoming birthday party, he's told that they themselves have developed a fear of hedgehogs. He gets over his fear by the end of the film, if only because clowns seem like a cakewalk in comparison to what he and his friends get to experience.
• All Part of the Show: When Krash, Shark, Mole, Dokko, and Barry interrupt Olga, Wally and Chiko's performance when they teleport to the Ancient China, Emperor's assistant tries to save the situation by claiming it to be a martial arts demonstration he planned all along.
• Bar Brawl: An intense firefight happens between Mole's crew and the criminals from Wild West, with the winner taking Krash, who was just captured by the them. They destroy the whole bar in process, but Mole and his assistants ultimately win.
• Casual Time Travel: DejaVu agency specializes at tours to different time periods, which is made possible thanks to their Chrono-Booth machines. They give Agent Mole a Chrono-Clicker, a small flashlight-esque remote that makes time traveling even easier. And as Mole himself puts it:
  Mole: Run your fingers through Einstein's hair, plunder a pirate ship, sleep in Napoleon's bed, see if aliens built the pyramids!
• Denial of Animality: In Middle Ages, moose were treated as (and act like) a brainless steed for bears. Given that Barry the bear and Dokko the moose are the ones to end up in this era, you can tell the latter, an intelligent person from the times where he and Barry are equals, doesn't enjoy his stay and objects to the treatment he receives.
• Department of Redundancy Department: DejaVu agency's motto is "The time of your life guaranteed guaranteed".
• Fighting Across Time and Space: Krash and Shark travel across various time periods while being chased by Mole, who wants to get his Chrono-Clicker back and erase the protagonists.
• The Middle Ages: To find Barry and Dokko, Krash and Shark teleport to the Middle Ages. The former assumes they'll see knights, dragons, princesses and wizards, but the latter is quick to tell him that they'll instead see things like black plague and crazy witch hunts.
• More Dakka: The Wild West bandit leader whips out a minigun during the firefight with Mole's team. By the time he runs out of cannon balls to shoot, the bar roof collapses on him.
• Slurpasaur: In KikoRiki universe, the Stone Age dinosaurs resemble frogs.
• Time Machine: DejaVu agency has two: Chrono-Booth is a TARDIS-esque phone booth. Chrono-Clicker is much smaller, but far more efficient method, being a small remote that can create temporary portals to the other time periods.
• Villain Opening Scene: The movie opens by introducing Mole, explaining his primary motivation (Becoming an Employee of the Month), and how he got his hands on Chrono-Clicker.

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