This is a 4-minute Funnyordie sketch and the title "Clint Howard Reboots Pippi Longstocking with Milla Jovovich and Fred Willard" already summarizes perfectly what it is about, so no need to elaborate further into that. Some well known names in here, also Ed Begley Jr. Unfortunately, it is not among Funnyordie's best for me in terms of comedy. The joke with Pippi Longstocking as a big--breasted action movie character got old pretty quickly. But still I would not mind a Pippi Longstocking reboot. They sure could make something nice out of a modern version of her free-spirited tongue-in-cheek humor and character. I'd watch. It would certainly be better than this little movie. Not recommended.
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The book is better
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews10 April 2016
A reboot is pitched. It doesn't go well. Sadly, the idea is better than many that are green-lit, produced and released.
Among the cameos we have poor Clint Howard mugging away, as we're... "treated"? to fart jokes and similarly dumb material. The "joke" goes on for entirely too long. Pippi reimagined as a comic book hero: hey, there might be some material there! She does have super-strength... but then this also gives her regular guns for some reason. And almost immediately, this veers off into directions that make you wonder why they picked this property for the parody, when they could have gone with anything else, or nothing at all.
This debuted on "funny or die", a site I do what I can to steer clear of since I find that when it doesn't fall into the former, it does deserve the latter. Hey, at least they realized when they titled it. The only reason I watched this was because I try to give a watch to anything Milla Jovovich is in. Casting her in this is of course going off her action heroine roles. And her appearance here partly works: she pulls off those ridiculous pigtails, the red haircolor, heck, until she replaces it with black leather, the dorky outfit wasn't bad on her. She fares well.
There is some mild violence in this. I recommend this only to those who refuse to believe it exists unless they see it. 3/10
Among the cameos we have poor Clint Howard mugging away, as we're... "treated"? to fart jokes and similarly dumb material. The "joke" goes on for entirely too long. Pippi reimagined as a comic book hero: hey, there might be some material there! She does have super-strength... but then this also gives her regular guns for some reason. And almost immediately, this veers off into directions that make you wonder why they picked this property for the parody, when they could have gone with anything else, or nothing at all.
This debuted on "funny or die", a site I do what I can to steer clear of since I find that when it doesn't fall into the former, it does deserve the latter. Hey, at least they realized when they titled it. The only reason I watched this was because I try to give a watch to anything Milla Jovovich is in. Casting her in this is of course going off her action heroine roles. And her appearance here partly works: she pulls off those ridiculous pigtails, the red haircolor, heck, until she replaces it with black leather, the dorky outfit wasn't bad on her. She fares well.
There is some mild violence in this. I recommend this only to those who refuse to believe it exists unless they see it. 3/10
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