Watch Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is a fun animated musical about a young girl waiting in a new town all by herself for her father to return. Pippi and her father, Captain Efraim Longstocking, where sailing around the world when one night they were hit by a very bad hurricane. The strong rain and winds made the water very rough and Captain Longstocking was washed of the ship. As he starts floating off he yells to Pippi to wait for him in Villa Villekulla and he will meet her there. Pippi was upset, but trusted her father.

So Pippi did just that, she took all her pets and went to her new home of Villa Villekulla and waiting for her father to return. Not too long after arriving Pippi makes two new friends, the kids across the street, Tommy and Annika. They love Pippi’s vivacious, free spirited attitude and convince her to go to school. This is something new for Pippi but she dives right into the new adventure. However despite her classmates adoring her, her teachers don’t quite share the admiration.

Soon a social worker is catching on to the lack of parental guidance in the Longstocking house. In the process of tell the proper authorities, two thieves over hear her and decide to rob Pippi when they break out of jail. Little do they know what they are up against with Pippi and her friends.

After a while of nothing being done about Pippi going to a orphanage, the social worker is on the verge of just taking her there herself. Then, Captain Longstocking returns to take Pippi back out to sea with him, only she doesn’t want to leave her new friends and life behind. After all the adventures and fun she has with Tommy and Annika, Pippi decides to stay with them in Villa Villekulla while her father returns back to his life on his ship.

Pippi Longstocking is a 1997 adventure movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 15 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.0.