Three yodels for this spirited sequel to earlier Heidi adventures in which Heidi is a teenager whose days at boarding school prove all too short when the boots of war stomp all over the school and she is thrown into an orphanage. Escaping with four tremulous companions, she faces the same means of escape as Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music - over the Alps. When Heidi's grandfather (Jan Rubes) bids her goodbye with the line 'The mountain is inside you. It will always be there', we fear the worst. But the adventure that follows proves quite strong and stirring, even if it can't quite make up its mind between the Shirley Temple approach and 1989 realism. But there are some good bits, especially the flight over the mountains and a horrendous orphanage which rivals the one from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. One of the other girls, Joanna Clarke, proves rather more than a match for Juliette Caton's slightly halting Heidi. Magnificent Alpine photography wraps up a sturdy little package that grown-ups can enjoy as well as kids.

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