World Famous Comics: Pippi Longstocking - Here Comes Pippi
Pippi Longstocking - Here Comes Pippi
Directed By: Michael Schaack, Clive A. Smith Average Rating: Binding: DVD Format: Color, Animated, Import Number of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1997 Region Code: 1 Running Time: 88 minutes
Here Comes Pippi. Here She Comes! These four exciting adventures from Canada's animated series of everyone's favorite Swedish red head, Pippi Longstocking, are sure to make you laugh. After watching each of Pippi's stories, I couldn't help but marval at what she can do. If ever someone wants to sell a house where a little girl resides in or wants to steal a chest of gold, it's Pippi Longstocking to the rescue! You can count on Pippi to save the day in each of her rim-tickling adventures. Here's what happens in each episode on this DVD:
Pippi Returns to Villa Villakula: After sailing on the ocean for quite some time, Pippi Longstocking returns to her home, Villa Villakula. She lives all alone with nobody but her horse named... uh, well, Horse and her monkey named Mr. Nilson. In the town, she makes two new friends who live next door. Their names are Tommy and Annika. They tell Pippi that their lives are boring ... that is until Pippi makes no end of trouble in the town. Tommy and Annika couldn't help but get awestruck when Pippi lifts up Bengt the bully high in the air with her super human strenth and tosses him up a tree. Also, you couldn't stop wondering how Pippi can fill a sail on a ship with just one breath and how she can climb up a house onto the ruth. The little town, thanks to Pippi, will never be the same again with her around!
Pippi Doesn't Sell Her House: A man wants to buy Villa Villakula, and Tommy and Annika get somewhat shocked. But you bet that Pippi is ready to take on the action and halt the sale. The two thieves, Thunder Karlson and his assistant Bloom, decide to become real estate agents so they can sell Pippi's house and steal her chest of gold. Unfortunately, everyone's plans get backfired by Pippi's antics and they all get arrested. Also, you'll discover that Pippi has a difficult time trying to write when she invites Tommy and Annika for a tree party - a tea party in a hollow tree in Pippi's garden.
Pippi Meets a Master Criminal: After Thunder Karlson and Bloom look into a book on how to become a master criminal, they decide to carry out a crime and steal Pippi's gold. However, Pippi and her eccentric habits become obstacles while they try to commit that crime. First, Pippi tells a ghost story to the burglars which becomes too creepy that it scared them. Next, they write a letter begging Pippi to rescue them. Unfortunately, neither Pippi nor the other people in the town could figure out what they wrote. Their writing was as bad as Pippi's, or maybe worse. Finally, Pippi and the thieves play hide-and-seek. As the game went on, Thunder Karlson tries to sneak out with the money, but he and Bloom end up being found. In the end, the thieves end up stealing a chest of coconuts instead of Pippi's money.
Pippi Saves the Old Folks: When the Old Folks Home was going to be torn down and they have to move to a more uglier place, it's Pippi to the rescue! She proves to everybody that you can save an old person's home by standing up to the counsel. Also as the old building begins tumbling down, she manages to save the lives of the Chairman's children.
My favorite episode of all from this DVD was the one where Pippi meets the thieves - the third one. She was so funny! In fact, all the stories will make you laugh all the way through. If you just can't get enough of Pippi's adventures, I also recommend these titles you should try: Captain Longstocking and Pippi Longstocking's - Pippi Goes to the Fair. Be sure to read my reviews on those titles. I hope to get feedback on them after you watch them.
Those 3 DVD's contain only a few of Pippi's adventures and they were also released in Canada. If ever Nelvana Limited - the company that brought Pippi Longstocking to life on the TV screen - makes an agreement with Shout Factory, Image Entertainment, or whatever Home Entertainment company in the United States to release her adventures here, I hope they'll release the COMPLETE animated series. That's right! All 26 episodes from the animated Pippi series should come out in a DVD box set some time in the future. That way, we can watch all of her adventures straight through. Her television series is like a continuing chapter book on the screen. [...]
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