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Simply A Masterpiece

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" already sounds like a kids movie and that is exactly what it is. Next year, it is going to have its 50th anniversary as it's been made back in 1966. The main characters are a bird and a ferret(-like animal). I thought the animation was not really to my liking and this fable is also really more for younger audiences. It lacks a really great story or character elaboration and is an okay watch once, but does not have any greatness attached to it like some other Soviet cartoons do, such as the pretty entertaining Vinni-Pukh trilogy. The voice acting is okay and fits the characters as far as I can be the judge of that without being a native Russian speaker. I watched it with subtitles. Make sure you do the same if you don't speak the language. Director Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya and writer Liya Solomyanskaya were certainly not among the most prolific filmmakers, especially the latter, and I can see why. Don't really see much talent in here that goes beyond entertaining audiences past the age of 10. Not recommended.