The first Russian musical in half a century, Valery Todorovsky's Hipsters gets rubles for trying, but what's on screen is thin and obvious, the characters one-dimensional, the musical numbers and satire vapid. The setting is 1955, just after Stalin's death, and the Communist country isn't ready for Moscow youth suddenly gone wild with Pee-wee Herman garb and a zest for western jazz and boogie-woogie. The tiny, obvious plot involves a romance between a repressed Communist youth, Mels (Anton Shagin) and Polly (Oksana Akinshina, a Michelle Williams look-alike), the flashy, anarchic-chic, uncrowned queen of the so-called "hipsters."