Neilson survive that shipwreck and end up in an empty house in a small coastal town. Somehow, Pippi, her pet horse Alphonso and signifying monkey Mr. Of course, she is the ultimate latchkey kid, since her mother is long dead (they still communicate through a cloud) and her ship's captain father is usually out to sea - literally washed out at the film's start. Pippi, the freckle-faced 11-year-old redhead with elevated pigtails, may be an enduring and endearing literary character, but as embodied by New Jersey's Tami Erin she's a self-centered, selfish and insensitive little child who runs totally out of control.
It's hard to imagine any of the Swedish adaptations being as smarmy and inept as this one it's just as hard to imagine Lindgren sending Pippi to Hollywood again anytime in the near future.
Judging from "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking," the novels by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren are better read than filmed, at least by Americans. ‘The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking’ (G) By Richard Harrington ‘The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking’ (G)
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