After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his sister Anika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a waterfall in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to an orphanage. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.
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I remember seeing this one 12 years ago, I loved it (I think it was my favorite movie) Of course I was only 5 or 6 but then again thats the age group the film was made for.id really like to get my hands on this one for nostalgic reasons but its just to old.
I highly recommend this film for any family with children. This is a top quality production that is great for the whole family to watch! Anyone who I have ever met who has seen this movie loves it, and children who have it on VHS or DVD watch it over and over again. I only wish it was re-released theatrically, so that this generation of children could have the opportunity to see it and embrace it the way I did when I was a child.
Yeah this may be an "80's" movie, but it still has that fun for the whole family. I watched this when I was younger and loved it. Now my daughter watches it too. She loves it too. Pippi is hilarious and the songs are funny. Plus they get stuck in your head! But I would recommend this for any parent that needs a movie for their kids to watch.
I myself grew up with the wonderful swedish Pippi movies(dubbed, I've seen them in dutch and in german), which are so popular that they are still repeated today. And I also know the books(infact I've read most of Astrid Lindgren's books, well the ones that where translated in dutch).Since those movies where made in the 70's I wondered what this movie would be like.Now I'm not the targeted agegroup anyomore, but I didn't like this version. Pippi was much too fake. Also everything seemed very fake come to think of it, it had none of the magic the origional films had.So if you've read the books and wanna see a film, please try and find the swedish ones they are great!