The Powerpuff Girls Movie plays less like a film and more like an adrenaline rush for one of the most breakneck seventy-three minutes of your life. The show, unseen by me, was an apparent cult success for Cartoon Network, around the same time as Dexter's Laboratory, along with boasting a similar fast-paced style and brightly colored atmospheres. All kidding aside, this film provided me with some of the most eventful cartoon action sequences in a long time and some of the most rapid fire events in recent memory.
The film gives us the simplistic origins story of the girls who were created by a straight-laced scientist named "The Professor" (voiced by Tom Kane). The girls, named Blossom (Cathy Cavadini), Bubbles (Tara Strong), and Buttercup (E.G. Daily) seem to be normal, bug-eyed sprouts, but they possess uncanny superpowers such as the ability to fly, utilize eye-lasers, and run at speeds unimaginable.
After their game of tag kindly ventures out beyond school boundaries and their damage to the city is ubiquitous and devastating, the girls are reprimanded by The Professor, who urges them not to use their powers in public. But when The Professor is arrested in connection with the girls' destruction, the girls must find their way home from school without guidance. They are misled into the clutches of an ominous figure named "Jojo" (Roger L. Jackson) who forces the girls to utilize their powers for his project that he states will bring good to society. Upon completion, it does the opposite and unleashes a hellish wrath on the town of Townsville with Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to blame. They must figure out a way to stop "Mojo Jojo," a name he adopts upon creating this plan, and win back the trust of their kind professor and the rest of the town.
A majority of the skinny film is action; almost nonstop carnage. It's quite the blink-and-you-miss-it entertainment. In the day and age of genial sincerity, more often than not with a burdening life lesson, brought to you by Pixar, The Powerpuff Girls Movie is rather low on the meter of animated entertainment, but the film's concise runtime, kinetic action scenes, a cheerily comforting family story elevate it to a level that I can recommend. Its theatrical release is somewhat strange. This kind of thing could fit nicely on Cartoon Network's daytime lineup. And it would be nice if everyone would talk about three octaves lower, but these petty problems do not distract from the kinetic style and animation clearly at hand here.
Voiced by: Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, E.G. Daily, Roger L. Jackson, and Tom Kenny. Directed by: Craig McCracken.
The film gives us the simplistic origins story of the girls who were created by a straight-laced scientist named "The Professor" (voiced by Tom Kane). The girls, named Blossom (Cathy Cavadini), Bubbles (Tara Strong), and Buttercup (E.G. Daily) seem to be normal, bug-eyed sprouts, but they possess uncanny superpowers such as the ability to fly, utilize eye-lasers, and run at speeds unimaginable.
After their game of tag kindly ventures out beyond school boundaries and their damage to the city is ubiquitous and devastating, the girls are reprimanded by The Professor, who urges them not to use their powers in public. But when The Professor is arrested in connection with the girls' destruction, the girls must find their way home from school without guidance. They are misled into the clutches of an ominous figure named "Jojo" (Roger L. Jackson) who forces the girls to utilize their powers for his project that he states will bring good to society. Upon completion, it does the opposite and unleashes a hellish wrath on the town of Townsville with Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to blame. They must figure out a way to stop "Mojo Jojo," a name he adopts upon creating this plan, and win back the trust of their kind professor and the rest of the town.
A majority of the skinny film is action; almost nonstop carnage. It's quite the blink-and-you-miss-it entertainment. In the day and age of genial sincerity, more often than not with a burdening life lesson, brought to you by Pixar, The Powerpuff Girls Movie is rather low on the meter of animated entertainment, but the film's concise runtime, kinetic action scenes, a cheerily comforting family story elevate it to a level that I can recommend. Its theatrical release is somewhat strange. This kind of thing could fit nicely on Cartoon Network's daytime lineup. And it would be nice if everyone would talk about three octaves lower, but these petty problems do not distract from the kinetic style and animation clearly at hand here.
Voiced by: Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, E.G. Daily, Roger L. Jackson, and Tom Kenny. Directed by: Craig McCracken.