Mad Heidi Opens In Theaters June 21
I don’t know if this statement will be controversial (probably not), but….has there ever been a good Heidi movie? I remember sitting through one as a small kid and being bored out of my mind. Somewhere in the Hanna-Barbera vaults is “Heidi’s Song,” an animated movie that came out in 1981 and was greeted with such indifference that it’s never been seen again aside from scattered TV airings a few years later. Heidi just…doesn’t have it. To make a truly entertaining movie about the Swiss girl with pigtails, we might have to resort to spicing things up a bit.
Presenting MAD HEIDI: a dystopian tale of revenge and violence with the lederhosen-clad heroine at its center. Set years after the ending to the original story, it opens with Heidi living a blissful life in the Alps, unaware of the tumultuous events that have taken place down below. She soon discovers a mad dictator has taken over Switzerland and plans to conquer the world through domination of the dairy trade! Not only that, his forces just executed her boyfriend for the crime of selling “illegal cheese.”
It gets wilder from there. The official description states that “Heidi embarks on a wild quest for vengeance that will bring her toe-to-toe against fierce female prison inmates, cheese-fueled Swiss super-soldiers, ninja nuns, and more, as she fights to take down the tyrannical regime and restore freedom to Switzerland.” Mad Heidi may be called many things, but we certainly can’t call it “boring.”
And yes, this is getting a theatrical release, if only for one day, thanks to a deal with Fathom Events in America and Cineplex in Canada. Mad Heidi stats Alice Lucy as Heidi, Casper Van Dien as Our Very Swiss Leader and David Schofield as Grandfather. It opens nationwide June 21. Watch the Red Band Trailer below.
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