Lovey-Dovey 3 (2011)

• 60%
• 2011
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Sergey Ginzburg
• Kristina Orbakayte
• Gosha Kutsenko
• Denis Paramonov

Love Is a Carrot 3 is the third in the Love Is a Carrot trilogy, Russia's own version of Freaky Friday. ("Love is a carrot" is a Russian phrase that, drawing on the silly-sounding rhyme between the words Lyubov, love, and Morkov, carrot, dismisses love as something silly or cutesy. It's often used to talk about romantic comedies and romantic problems. It can translate as "lovey-dovey.") Andrey and Marina are a married couple-by the third film, they have already been married for 15 years-who are constantly running into problems, which are solved by various body-switching antics. In the first film, they switch bodies with each other, staving off an impending divorce; in the second, they switch bodies with their adolescent children. The third film continues the trend. The tagline is "They're not themselves again". Marina's mother comes to visit, and soon after, Andrey's father appears. (Fun fact: there are different Russian words for the wife's mother-in-law/husband's mother, and the husband's mother-in-law/mother's mother-not that Russian is hard or anything...) Neither is particularly fond of their respective child-in-law. Just as the drama in the house is getting out of control, the family returns to Professor Kogan, a specialist in family problems who solves them by getting the family members to switch bodies. Marina and Andrey switch bodies with their parents, and hi-jinks ensue.