this movie . . . i do not know . why they would take such an indellible character a pippi longstocking and cast the singularly charmless tami erin and i will never know . why they would spend money on art direction and some not all that bad special effect and then not bother to edit it properly and i will never know . why the set and costume be sometimes in period and and sometimes bizarrely not and why they commission such bad song and why the script doesn not make any sense whatsoever ( not even on a silly and child film level ) . . . . what be they think . nothing about this movie be quite a it should be . every single part be dub ( and always poorly and ) every sound effect be slightly wrong and every edit be in the wrong place and every performance be bad in some way . it do manage to create an appropriate atmosphere and despite all the problem and but it never capture the magic that be astrid lindgren creation .