astrid lindgren pippi långstrump på de sju haven

The lack of budget is notably evident in the diving scenes, which have merely thrown together stock underwater film footage in lieu of actually showing the cast (or even any people) beneath the water. The locations hardly look like the South Seas or the Caribbean. The water tanks and ship models are especially shabby. Inger Nilsson has a pirate song that she gets to deliver in the midst of a storm, which is particularly memorable.Īs usual with these Pippi films, Pippi in the South Seas has a glaringly threadbare tattiness to it. There is some entertaining nonsense in the middle of the film with Pippi using her super-strength to defeat a crew of pirates single-handedly – at one point blowing them all across a tavern. By contrast, Pippi in the South Seas leaps off into full-fledged fantasy with bizarre flying machines, including a ride aboard a ramshackle contraption consisting of bedsteads attached to hot-air balloons, which does capture some of the absurdism of the books. Pippi in the South Seas survives somewhat more likeably than the other Swedish Pippi films due to its approximating the absurdist nonsense of Astrid Lindgren’s books – the other films tended to bog down in dull and prosaic adventures running around the backyard of the Villa Villekula and so on. The other films in the series, the second and fourth respectively, were Pippi Goes on Board (1970) and Pippi on the Run (1973). Pippi in the South Seas is loosely based on the third of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi books Pippi in the South Seas (1948). The film series had begun with Pippi Longstocking (1969), which was made concurrent with a tv series Pippi Longstocking (1969).

Pippi in the South Seas was the third of the Swedish-made Pippi Longstocking films based on Astrid Lindgren’s immensely popular children’s books.

Astrid lindgren pippi långstrump på de sju haven