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Summary: My daughter loves this movie!
Review: I rented this movie to watch with my two daughters, ages 5 and 8. They both enjoyed it. However, my 5 year old liked it so much that she watched it over and over. I bought her the DVD for her birthday a month later. She continued to watch it. She was trying to take it out of the case to play it today when it accidently broke. She cried and cried. I will be ordering another for her.
My daughters do not watch a lot of tv or movies. There was just something about this that she loved!
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Summary: "Pippi Longstocking Is BACK!"
Review: "The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking" is one of my favorite movies ever made. Tami Erin's performance as Pippi is better than Inger Nilsson's portrayal of the magical red-headed girl. My favorite scene is where Pippi's bare feet is on the pillow,and she's wiggling her toes. I Suggest you buy this movie on VHS or DVD right now!
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Summary: Wow! Is this a bad movie or what?
Review: "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" was a box office and critical fiasco when it was released back in 1988. Watch it once and you'll realize why people stayed away in droves from this turkey. I don't know really where to begin to describe how dreadful this movie really is. It's badly directed, has cheesy sets, absolutely horrible songs, and a wretched script. It has all the elements of a bad movie, but one element helps make it a cut below even the most awful films- the performance of Tami Erin. Ms. Erin is the most talentless person (I will not apply the word actress to describe her) that has EVER been given a starring role in a major motion picture. Why are people asking what happened to her?!?! It's perfectly clear what happened to her- she proved she couldn't act and therefore no one would hire again for another acting job. She plays Pippi Longstocking as a demented, socially obnoxious, teenaged nut job.And please do not defend this movie with the tired cliche, "It's a children's movie." Oh, it was made for children all right. However, it was not made to entertain children, but to punish them: threatening children with being forced to watch Tami Erin ought to be a good incentive to keep discipline. I have to agree with another review- how did this awful movie see the light of day in 1988 and I weep for those parents and children who actually saw it in the theater.
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Summary: What on God's green earth is this drek!
Review: Any American remake of a foreign film is always going to be a disaster. Like this atrocious remake of the swedish classic series I cherished and seen long ago as a young lad (granted it was dubbed in english). This version lacks the carefree, adventure, and everthing else that makes up the "girls [rule]" mystique that so wonderfully characterized the original foreign version. Remember, there are starving people in this country and abroad that could use your money if your thinking about wasting it on this abomination.
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Summary: The Psychotic Pippi
Review: Arrogant is a good one. Another is rascal. Other ones that fit rather well are show-stopper, shameless, unrepentent, metahuman, Goddess, and powerful almost to the point of being menacing but not quite. You need only fear her if your life depends on NOT having fun.
Oh, yeah. And she's probably older and smarter than she pretends to be, and she's definitely MUCH wiser.
All these things have made her one of my favorite fictional characters ever.
So why is it that in this movie, she is none of those amazing things?
As a child, I was a fairly poor individual, not at all like Pippi, but I did have a library card, and so I spent much time reading. Naturally, when this movie came out, I couldn't go to see it, however, I did read the book, and I was immediately swept up into a childhood crush on its main character that lasted for years and years.
At the age of 18 or so, I finally got the chance to see this movie, and I was apalled! This film makes a mockery of everything Pippi is.
For about 70% of the film, Pippi behaves completely out-of-character, and much of the rest of it is consumed by lousy characters who have no substance. Pippi does get to rough up a few people, but unlike in the books, she only does it to three bad guys that act like the Curly, Larry and Moe.
Additionally, this movie is plagued by the curse of having way too many unnecesary songs. It could have been so much better.
If you want to speak kindly of this movie, however, you won't be entirely without ammunition. It does contain a few scenes of pleasing metahuman powers, and several of Pippi being a brat which ALMOST threaten to drag the movie out of the gutter it made for itself.
If you still don't understand what I'm griping about, read all three Pippi books, then carefully review the scenes in the children's home. You should be able to tell quite easily that none of them should have happened, especially the one where Pippi flinches at the striking of a ruler, as opposed to her book incarnation, whose skin was about the consistency of a brick wall.
Long and short, as a movie, it's only marginally bad, but you definitely don't want to watch it because frankly, you're better off reading the books by about a billion times.
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Summary: What words can describe Pippi Longstocking?
Review: Arrogant is a good one. Another is rascal. Other ones that fit rather well are show-stopper, shameless, unrepentent, metahuman, Goddess, and powerful almost to the point of being menacing but not quite. You need only fear her if your life depends on NOT having fun.
Oh, yeah. And she's probably older and smarter than she pretends to be, and she's definitely MUCH wiser.
All these things have made her one of my favorite fictional characters ever.
So why is it that in this movie, she is none of those amazing things?
As a child, I was a fairly poor individual, not at all like Pippi, but I did have a library card, and so I spent much time reading. Naturally, when this movie came out, I couldn't go to see it, however, I did read the book, and I was immediately swept up into a childhood crush on its main character that lasted for years and years.
At the age of 18 or so, I finally got the chance to see this movie, and I was apalled! This film makes a mockery of everything Pippi is. For about 70% of the film, Pippi behaves completely out-of-character, and much of the rest of it is consumed by lousy characters who have no substance. Pippi does get to rough up a few people, but unlike in the books, she only does it to three bad guys that act like the Curly, Larry and Moe.
Additionally, this movie is plagued by the curse of having way too many unnecesary songs. It could have been so much better.
If you want to speak kindly of this movie, however, you won't be entirely without ammunition. It does contain a few scenes of pleasing metahuman powers, and several of Pippi being a brat which ALMOST threaten to drag the movie out of the gutter it made for itself.
If you still don't understand what I'm griping about, read all three Pippi books, then carefully review the scenes in the children's home. You should be able to tell quite easily that none of them should have happened, especially the one where Pippi flinches at the striking of a ruler, as opposed to her book incarnation, whose skin was about the consistency of a brick wall.
Long and short, as a movie, it's only marginally bad, but you definitely don't want to watch it because frankly, you're better off reading the books by about a billion times.
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Summary: This is a shame!!!
Review: Growing up with the original Pippi-movies and TV-show and loving those, this is a disaster. Everything about it is wrong, wrong, terribly wrong. Horrible acting, casting, music. Everything about this movie is just utterly shameful. If I could give it 0(zero) stars I would. How can you massacre such a wonderful and witty book? This is Hollywood at its absolute worst.The person playing Pippi is too big. She's almost as big as the adults, and she has thunder legs that won't stop. It looks creepy!!YUCK!!!Wait until February and buy the original TV-series from 1969 re-released on DVD and VHS. Inger Nilsson save us!!!
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Summary: MY FAVORITE MOVIE
Review: I am a sophomore in college and today I still love the New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. I have a VHS copy of this movie from a long time ago and I still watch it over and over today. I saw all of her movies when I was a child and I am still an avid lover. I searched on amazon.com in order to find out if I could purchase a copy of my favorite movie. My copy is so bad that is skips and the sound is bad too. I absolutely LOVE this movie
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Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: I can only hope that Astrid Lindgren never gets wind of this atrocity. However did the creators of this film, think they could even come close to recreating the beloved Pippi films? First of all, to use Florida as a replacement for Sweden, is funny in itself, but to cast Tami Erin in this role was hysterical. Too old to play the character, and not talented enough to bring Pippi to life. Perhaps if you have never heard of Pippi Longstocking before, you might find this movie tolerable, but if you are at all familiar with Lindgren's writing, you will want to stay clear of this movie altogether.
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Summary: What were they thinking?
Review: I first saw this movie during its initial theatrical release in 1988. Even then, as a 5th-grader, I could tell from the opening scene that this movie would be a horrible disappointment. I was actually ashamed for that 15-year-old girl who tried to pass herself off as Pippi. In the books, Pippi was a quick-witted, harmless trouble-maker (who was, by the way, supposed to be 9 years old), but in this movie version she is a brainless ding-dong who instigates a countless number of harmful schemes. While trying to elude the truant/social worker, she selfishly convinces her two "best friends" to leave their parents and run away with her on a mindless "adventure." When Tommy and Annika begin to have second thoughts about leaving home, Pippi consoles them with a bar of chocolate to be shared by the three of them. The simpletons are actually cheered up by the offering, as if any kid would rather have one-third of a chocolate bar over a warm home-cooked meal. And just when I thought this movie couldn't get any worse, the characters actually begin to sing songs that sound like they were written by a 5-year-old contest winner. You'd think that the adults involved in the making of this movie would try as hard as possible to please young fans by staying true to the books, but while watching this heartless sacrilege unfold in the theater that day, I had the awful feeling that Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi books) had rolled over in his grave.
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