I have to agree with Georgiy Borodin on this one. The main character spends the whole film being awful, and I was wondering for the whole film when the payoff would come. Then at the end, (spoiler), it just ends with a door falling on him? Uh, what? I really get the sense that by this stage in her career, Strautmane just saw her job as little more than work-for-hire, because I can't see a lot of effort or inspiration from her here, especially compared to some of her earlier films... (not that it's that surprising, because her earlier attempts to do something that inspired her tended to end badly... and also, she had left Soyuzmultfilm on bad terms and was now working at the only alternative studio, and I guess she felt she was on thin ice and trying not to take any artistic risks).