The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

words cannot even explain how boring, annoying, and just straight out awful this movie is. i was forced to watch this in third grade, And when i heard that the class was going to watch it again, i took a sick day because this is so terrible, But that didn't stop me from seeing the movie again. The teacher made me watch it on tape. I had my fingers over my ears the whole time. the voices sound worse than nails on a chalk board. they voices are all squeaky with a country accent.And the only reason i "remember" is 1, because it was so bad, and 2, i searched it on you tube to see if it was either my short 3rd grade temper, or that the movie was actually terrible. and the answer was that the movie is not terrible, but so annoying that you would rather do almost anything than watch this whole movie.Just stay away from this "movie", for your own mental state.

I rented this movie on Netflix, because I remember my younger sister and I watching it in the 80s when we were young and liking it. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old, and when snowed in on a recent blizzard, we watched it together! What fun! It is not "high art" or great movie making, per se -- but it captures the fun, rebellious, fantastic world of a little girl having adventures, refusing to be ordinary, and standing up a world of bossy grown-ups. The spunk, chutzpah, and indefatigable spirit of Pippi is one that I am sure many adults would like to quell and crush, as we see in over-medicated children in our country today! This movie would never be made now, as she does some very dangerous things, like running away and going into a fire to save kids. But it is a fantasy and she is like a superhero... I am sure that the studio would be paranoid that some kid would copy these fantasy actions and sue them.She ate pancakes for dinner, washed the floor with roller-skate brushes, and stuck to her guns. Honestly, a great role model for children because it is a story that appreciates a child's view of the world.The musical refrain is something so sweet and innocent, that my older daughter just sang it to me as her bedtime song.If you have kids between 5-8 years, they will like it immensely, so rent it and you'll be singing along.. "Pippi Longstocking is coming into your town.. "

I've always liked Astrid Lindgrens children's books very very much, and watched the original Swedish TV-series of Pippi over and over again (with Dutch subtitles). I think the Swedish girl (Inger Nilsson) who played Pippi in the original version was WAY better then this annoying American teenager pretending to be all cute and 10 years old! True, the original series look rather out of date now (being filmed in the 1970's), but for me, that always added a kind of innocense and charm to it. And the horse and monkey were not supposed to talk! Why add such "It's a kiddy movie, so all animals are fluffy and can speak" nonsense to an already great story ?The only possible justification I can think of for "improving" the Swedish series like this is that the original TV-series isn't available in the US. Maybe American kids like this new version, but I will surely NEVER watch this crap again! I still have some of the original episodes on tape, and my cousins still laugh every time they watch them (despite the lousy special effects and the subtitles)!I give this terrible rip-off 1 star out of 5 (maybe kids who don't know the books or the Swedish version like it)

One of the very worst productions ever, "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" is one of those films that makes you scratch your head so hard that your hair nearly falls out. The titled character (the annoying and unwanted Tami Erin) is basically a female version of "Peter Pan" who just cannot seem to grow up or make much sense. She befriends two equally dim-witted children her age and they spend the duration of the film doing a whole bunch of nothing for the most part. Eileen Brennan (What in the world was she thinking?) is also on hand as a mean social worker who wants Erin to go to a foster home. I would have to be with Erin on that one, who would want her? Turkey (0 stars out of 5).