"Maybe I should just let go and appreciate Larsson’s poetic license and extension of Pippi into a righteous feminist vigilante. But I can’t. At the end of the last of the original Pippi books, Lindgren implies that Pippi will never grow up, that she somehow represents a mythological vision of untouched childhood."

Nathan Hegedus for Slate, “For The Last Time, Lisbeth Salander is Not Pippi Longstocking.”