You’re right of course about it looking off, and you’re also right about this being enhanced by the discrepancy between the deep voice and the young boy. These reasons are the reason I used the word ‘great’, as in I really liked the overall effect. 

I should have been more clear and wrote something like ‘great video’ while acknowledging this was lip-synced which was my intent. 

Yes, I agree that the German dubbers are pretty amazing ;)

Seriously, it would have been cool if this kid had hired an orchestra, rewrote and arranged the score, recorded his version of it, set up the stage, lights and cameras, choreographed his blocking, visited the costume department and actually put on a real lip synching performance.

Guess he was just a little lazy. Single camera, no professional lighting – like what is this, amateur hour in mom and pop’s basement? Oh ..

Still, gave me lols.

You can believe what you want.  Jan appears to understand that performance musically means a particular thing.  I was concurring.

He’s performing, but “performing a song” involves actually performing the piece not acting.

First of all, in the original video, Mr. Khil is lip-synching, albeit to his own voice. Second, there is one original, but hundreds of homages. This means that lip-synching is in fact the primary way that one “performs” Trololo.

It’s like “performing a sexual act” or “performing an operation” or “performing a marriage ceremony.”

Feigns.  He feigns the piece.

Perhaps I’m spoiled by the efforts made by German dubbers (Though the standards declined in recent years), but this looked pretty off to me.

Probably enhanced by the the discrepancy between the young boy and the deep voice, which can’t have come from him

The proclamations of ‘nailed it!’ must be from his mum though, at best it deserves a ‘that’s alright!’, which admittedly isn’t as snappy as an Internet comment.

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil, was an amazing guy. Trololo was his most well known song, at least in the west, but his oeuvre is much more than the one song. 

He has been called the ‘Russian Lawrence Welk’,   because his show’s format was similar, and many older, elderly, Russian Immigrants acquaintances of mine  love Welk because they used to watch Khil back home. 

I cannot sit through ten minutes of Welk unless I’ve altered my state. With Khil, I don’t need to alter my state. He didn’t take himself seriously and he kind of reminds me of a Benny Hill who continued to  play  it straight and did not evolve his show to burlesque (I’m a Benny Hill fan, and his very, earliest shows (B&W) were much like Welk and Khil.)

BTW, here is a fairly decent WikiP about EAK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil