Heidi (2001) User Reviews

Nothing to do with the book

[sassyperkins · 1/10 · 23 October 2006]

This was just plain bad and had nothing to do with the book at all except for the fact that the names were the same.

Heidi's mother had just died and Heidi was running a bed and breakfast place on her own. Quite an achievement at that age.

It was when Heidi - with dyed blue hair - was fare-dodging on the Berlin underground, that I decided that this film was so bad it was funny.

There was no Fräulein Rottenmeier as Clara was also Heidi's cousin and Dete's daughter.

"Goat" Peter started the "Send Heidi Home" Internet site and Clara was just a brat who had no trouble walking at all.

Clara wanted to run off to Paris to find her dad, but it turned out that she was the result of an affair and Dete didn't even know the dad's name.

It all ended at some pop concert and the alm uncle moving into the bed and breakfast that Heidi and her mum had. Then Clara and Dete moved in, too.

What on earth were the producers of this complete rubbish thinking of?????

Heidi meets Marty McFly

[ArmyTater · 21 January 2002]

Clara's a spoiled brat, and Heidi's only friends are Peter (whom she keeps in touch with by e-mail) and his German friend who runs a cybercafe in Berlin, Germany. Between the two of them--and the help of Berlin kids--they get enough money for Heidi to buy a train ticket back to Switzerland.

As this was filmed in Switzerland, the German dialect is spoken more "harshly" except the part filmed in Berlin. There is so much difference in the 2001 version that there isn't enough of the original content as I would have liked. This movie has also been dubbed into French.