Review – Pippi on the Run

This is my favorite Pippi Longstocking movie. Sure, it lacks the freshness of the original. It doesn’t have big adventures in pirate strongholds or anything like that. Indeed, she and her two sidekicks don’t even make it out of Sweden. Instead, Tommy and Annika decide to run away, and their parents grant permission as long as Pippi’s with them (Swedish child welfare enforcement must be different than what we’ve got in the States). But what it lacks in exotic locales it more than makes up for in dumb. I was particularly impressed with the scene in which, in order to obtain “money and blood,” the trio pretend to be “Turkish orphans” and do a ridiculous dance until people throw money at them. The whole picture is worth it just for that. Mildly amusing