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Pippi Longstocking - The TV Series

Pippi Longstocking - The TV Series

List Price: $29.95
Your Price: $26.96
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: THE NEW DUBBING
Review: (...) THE NEW DUBBING IN NOT RIGHT!! I LOVE PIPPI AND THE WHOLE CHARM OF IT WAS THE BAD AMERICAN DUBBING!! I WAS SOOO HAPPY TO FIND OUT THEY FINALLY RELEASED ALL THE PIPPI'S ON DVD BUT THEN I HEARD THE NEW DUBBING AND WAS VERY UPSET AND DISAPPOINTED.. I SOLD IT IMMEDIATELY AND LIVE ON WITH MY PIPPI VHS TAPES!! THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT SO YOU HAD A CHOICE OF AMERICAN, BRITISH OR SWEDISH.. I MEAN THEY HAD TO HAVE KNOWN THAT TRUE PIPPI FANS WERE GONNA BE UPSET!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Review: I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY USED PROPER ENGLISH ACCENTS FOR THE VOICE OF PIPPI LONGSTOCKING! And they didn't even use the same English words in most parts. I was looking forward to my daughter being able to enjoy these movies like I did growing up. I was SO disappointed. Someone in America needs to redo this set and offer English subtitles or put the ORIGINAL dubbing BACK IN. (Don't get me wrong , I have NOTHING against the British. I LOVE Britain. It just doesn't work for Pippi.) I will stick with my grainy disintegrating VHS tapes. All I can say is BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kids will LOVE it
Review: I purchased the DVD for my kids. Having grown up with the movies that were played in the 70 and early 80, I thought that the stories would be great for my kids. I did not know that the movies were actually hacked together from a TV series. Now that I have seen the DVD, which is only the first 6 of the series, I really wish that the rest would be brought out on DVD. More episodes would be great since we watch these at least twice a week. My son CANNOT get enough of it.

The dubbing, although different that what I remember, is fine. And since the DVD is for the little ones, they don't care what I remember from the TV movies :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kids will LOVE it
Review: I purchased the DVD for my kids. Having grown up with the movies that were played in the 70 and early 80, I thought that the stories would be great for my kids. I did not know that the movies were actually hacked together from a TV series. Now that I have seen the DVD, which is only the first 6 of the series, I really wish that the rest would be brought out on DVD. More episodes would be great since we watch these at least twice a week. My son CANNOT get enough of it.

The dubbing, although different that what I remember, is fine. And since the DVD is for the little ones, they don't care what I remember from the TV movies :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great To see again after all these years!
Review: I was a HUGE Pippi fan as a kid. I thought it was wonderful to see this movie. The quality is excellent! It has a few extras not on the movie version. The dubbing in the british accent is ok...I'm familar with the english accents in the movie version but its not bad enough to ruien the film. Pippi is still funny!! I hope they release the four original movie versions on DVD eventually.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: New Dubbing
Review: I was really turned off by the British dubbing. Tommy, Anika, & Pippi all sound alike and they are so drab. The original dubbing may not have been perfect, but gave the episodes a feeling of fun & excitement. They also call Anika "Anna" - I grew up with Pippi and this was a little dissapointing. I gave it 4 stars because the quality is high and perhaps a new generation would find it appealing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Pippi movies were my favorite as a child...
Review: I was so excited to see this out on dvd. The picture quality is superb compared to the movies of the 70's. However, what keeps me from giving this 5 stars is the british dubbing. The voices are boring and uninteresting.(They could have at least picked some more distinguishable voices.) I was expecting similar dubbing as in the movies. This gives me hope though, that the original movies will come out on dvd!!! This is still great to watch if you are a Pippi fan! I have been trying to get my children interested, so far the 6 year old is watching.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Why Was Annika Changed to Anna?
Review: I watched the Swedish Pippi Longstocking movies as a child in the 1970's and I really loved those movies but I never knew that the movies were actually pieced together for the theatrical movies from episodes of a Swedish kids TV show and I thought it was really cool that they put the original TV episodes on DVD and I know that the movies had bad dubbing and you could tell that the people doing the dubbing voices for the kids Pippi, Tommy and Annika all sounded like they were adults and way too old to be providing the voices for children but the dubbing on this DVD isn't much better and while I don't mind people with British accents doing the dubbing I'm disappointed like other Pippi fans that they decided that they had to change Annika's name to Anna, I mean what was the deal with that? And Couldn't they have used the original Swedish language tracks with English subtitles?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pippi's here!!!
Review: Inger Nilsson IS Pippi Longstocking for an entire generation, and she is as adorable as ever in beautifully mastered DVD collection. I had no idea all four of the Swedish theatrical films were edited together from the television series (though the DVD case claims only the first one was -- that's incorrect).

Picture is GORGEOUS -- brilliant colors, razor sharp, little grain, and hardly a spot on the film. The only drawback, besides no extras, is the lack of an option to play the original Swedish lanuage.

Since the TV series contained scenes that were never in the theatrical features, the original American dubbing was presumably not an option, as it would have been incomplete. A brand-new dubbed track was created, this time using British actors. I think the new dubbing is quite good. The children are actually much better actors than the old American voices from the early 70s.

Hen's Tooth, thank you for finally bringing Pippi to DVD. Please release the rest of this series... and put the Swedish language track on there!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pippi's here!!!
Review: Inger Nilsson IS Pippi Longstocking for an entire generation, and she is as adorable as ever in beautifully mastered DVD collection. I had no idea all four of the Swedish theatrical films were edited together from the television series (though the DVD case claims only the first one was -- that's incorrect).

Picture is GORGEOUS -- brilliant colors, razor sharp, little grain, and hardly a spot on the film. The only drawback, besides no extras, is the lack of an option to play the original Swedish lanuage.

Since the TV series contained scenes that were never in the theatrical features, the original American dubbing was presumably not an option, as it would have been incomplete. A brand-new dubbed track was created, this time using British actors. I think the new dubbing is quite good. The children are actually much better actors than the old American voices from the early 70s.

Hen's Tooth, thank you for finally bringing Pippi to DVD. Please release the rest of this series... and put the Swedish language track on there!


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