While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

"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.