![]() ![]() Prysselius are at the center of the ongoing battle. The town’s two cops are as ineffectual at their job as the crooks are at theirs, so Pippi and Mrs. ![]() It also affords the community’s bumbling criminals, Thunder-Karlsson and Bloom, the chance to visit Pippi with the goal of robbing her of the bountiful gold coins she counts for absent Dad. Prysselius (spoken beautifully and threateningly by Catherine O’Hara). ![]() This affords the ingenuous child the opportunity to live without parental supervision, creating a household (including a mangy horse and manic monkey) of unusual activity that excites the bored suburban kids next door, Tommy and Annika, and irritates the town busybody and arbiter of social behavior, Mrs. ![]() Longstocking is swept overboard during a storm, but vows from the ocean to meet his beloved only child at Villa Villekulla, their gingerbread home in a “normal” Swedish village. Immediately following the film’s first production number, Capt. The linear narrative, devised by Canadian-based director Clive Smith (whose considerable animation credits include the Steven Spielberg-Tim Burton series “Family Dog”) to appeal to a North American audience, is bracketed by Pippi on her captain father’s ship. A joint venture of companies from three countries, $10 million pic, which includes 100,000 animation cels, will go out initially in English, French, Swedish and German. ![]()
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