As close to "purely for entertainment" as Soviet animation got. This one seems to have no point to it that I can see other than to showcase some funny antics.

Well, absurdity and meaninglessness are almost characteristic of films of the 1980s and 1990s. This film reminds me of the Australian children's series I watched as a child. Typically as : Round the Twist. Or : About the Knight Who was not Afraid of Anyone 1.

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>Well, absurdity and meaninglessness are almost characteristic of films of the 1980s and 1990s.
I can only partly agree. Although there were certainly many of those made, I think that there was also a simultaneous trend for more deep, meaningful films. It was no accident that Aleksandr Petrov got his artistic start precisely in that era...
I think that more than in any other period (especially the late 1980s - in the 1990s, the economic factor made itself felt more and more), it was a time when the directors were answerable only to themselves. They could show their best and worst parts, for good or ill. Such a situation could not last long, and indeed didn't, but there were a lot of interesting films made... alongside pointless ones like this one.