LOL

LOL (Bolshaya rzhaka!, 2012) is a Russian adventure comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Two buddies, Shiryaev and Molotok, are stuck at a third-rate television station in a small provincial town, dreaming of striking it rich and waking up famous somewhere in the capital.

Then inspiration hits: launch a reality show whose contestants have to track down the legendary lost gold of Admiral Kolchak. They talk their pretty colleague Nadia into joining, and soon the trio is swept up in the manic treasure hunt themselves — across planes, trains and cars, through chases and one ridiculous scrape after another. What none of the gold-diggers suspect is the secret hiding behind the whole scheme.

The cast is full of faces familiar from Russian comedy television: Sergey Pisarenko, Irina Medvedeva, Sergey Dorogov and Alexander Semchev. Director Vitaly Moskalenko keeps things light and fast, never reaching for more than a goofy road-trip romp. It's the kind of movie for switching your brain off and just laughing. Stream LOL (2012) online on iFILM.