Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

It's a small, quirky, extremely funny film based on a popular play written by an Estonian author. (Zeltina played the same role in the Jauna Rigas Teatra production.) It's about a guy and girl who experience a motor scooter breakdown out in the countryside and seek refuge in a nearby ramshackle house where they meet the very strange and quixotic man who lives there. The film is full of surprises, the screenplay is terrific and extremely funny, and the story (about love and money) seems very timely.Although Miks is from Latvia, he's been studying film and working in the US for several years, and based on this film alone, he's loaded with talent. I would compare the film to 'Sideways', which is another small film and something of a cult favorite.If Mirisch promotes it well and they can get it into Sundance or some other key film festivals, it may start appearing in US theaters.Although the film is not about Latvia, Zeltina plays a Latvian model who hooks up with a California guy, and the subtext will ring familiar to Latvians. She speaks good, but accented English but at one point loses her temper and screams 'aizveries!' to her boyfriend. It's all very cute and clever.It's gonna be available to public in October, 2009.