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
