Purely Joyful Movie!

A Brilliant Conflict

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

I have very mixed feelings about this show. There is very positive stuff about it that can make me feel like some sort of significant casual fan. On the other hand, a lot of the negative stuff about the show can also make me feel like not much of a fan at all.First, the pros.I may not like feminism, but despite that, i think that having little girls as the main characters actually adds to the show's charm. The show is best when it has its cuter moments, which can be especially fitting for this show, since the title characters look downright adorable. For this reason, I like how the title characters are designed. My very favorite characters on the show, of course, are the title characters. I like how they each have their own personality, with both strong and weak points, just like real-life people. This can make many viewers identify with the characters more, along with the girls' sibling relationships among themselves.I also enjoy seeing pictures of the characters, including screen grabs from episodes of the show, and fan art based on the show. There are a lot of talented artists out there drawing their own take on the girls. I do cartooning as a hobby, so looking at all of these pictures can inspire me to do my cartooning more.The most interesting villains on the show are The Rowdyruff Boys, because they are male and evil counterparts to The Powerpuff Girls, and often, I find counterparts interesting. Among the funniest of the villains are The Amoeba Boys, because they are so pathetic as villains, that they don't even feel like real villains. Sometimes they can even act a bit friendly towards The Powerpuff Girls, something that a villain typically does not do. All of this makes these villains funny for this reason.I also enjoyed collecting some of the merchandise. Among the most enjoyable ones based on the show were the plush toys, which is fitting for The Powerpuff Girls, because they look so adorable, and I always thought that they looked sort of like dolls anyway, because they seem to appear without toes and fingers, just like some soft cloth dolls would.And now, the cons.Contrary to looking at pictures of the title characters, watching the show itself actually takes away my inspiration to cartoon that can make me feel like I'm only going through the motions when I am doing this hobby. Maybe it is because it has annoyances typically found in most contemporary shows that can turn me off. Could it be that shows like this have too much of a modern feel for me? I'm not sure.Reading articles and opinions about this show can also make me feel less like a fan of it, especially whenever I read about references that the show makes, as it makes numerous references to some pop culture and other stuff that does not appeal to me too much. Particularly, a lot of these references can really alienate me as I watch the show, and make me like the show less.I am also turned off by the innuendo and adult level stuff on the show that I often hear about, and I wish it had much less of that. But it is no wonder it has stuff like this, though, as I was a little shocked - but not surprised - to find out that the creator prefers adults as his target audience. I wish that more creators would just go for a general audience instead. Not just kids only, nor just adults only, but all ages as the target audience. Most of the best entertainment has a general audience as the target audience. I think that too many entertainers go for the adult audience these days. Typically, something with a target audience like this has much less charm.Because of a lot of the cons that I have with the show, sometimes I feel like I regret ever watching this show, along with many other modern programs. For this reason, it does make me feel like vowing to never watch any more modern cartoons, which I have not been doing for a while now.Among my least favorite villains, I would have to go with Princess. She seems to be the most annoying of them all, and one of the most hated to me. Maybe it's because of her whiny voice, and that she yells too much - and, of course - her personality and attitude, which, I think, could rub someone the wrong way.I would say that the show did jump the shark when the 2002 movie came out, although the movie was actually good. Like many of the more avid fans of the show, I can't help but notice that the story ideas do seem weaker during the fifth and sixth seasons, although they are nothing compared to a lot of the extremely bad story ideas - and ideas in general - of the new 2016 series, which seems very depressing and much worse to me, what little I've seen of it. It has a very different feel from the original.I also notice, that since the movie came out, the amount of fandom seems like it waned, too. The amount of merchandise coming out dwindled as well - especially towards the end of 2002. But I think it is probably also because the makers of a lot of the merchandise, Trendmasters, became defunct that year, according to Wikipedia.I would give this show a 5 out of 10 stars, because my feelings vary wildly about this show.

When Cartoon Network is mentioned, people always think of Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Gumball, Regular Show, and other thin lined TV shows, But despite your opinions on that,one show came to mind when i think of it, The Powerpuff Girls. though they may seem feminine on the outside, they're Powerful, Strong, and Merciless on the inside. The art style is inspiring to artists like me who wish to become an animator one day, and it was inspired by UPA and Hannah Barbara with the thick lines, I like how artistic the backgrounds and character designs are in the series.If you like Iconic voice acting then this has lots of Iconic voices, hell, Tara Strong was known for Bubbles and was acknowledged by Disney After that, and without Bubbles, we wouldn't have Truffles. Even the writing contains lots of witty dialogue and brutal fights, with no mercy, I mean Damn Powerpuff Girls, you just mutilated a clown, what most people would stand out is the villains and not the girls, but without Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, than we would just have the evil villains planning, they PPG steal the show. For how savage and merciless the girls are, they give purpose for how much they don't give mercy, and that's why I like the show, it's nothing like Nickelodeon's lineup or Toon Disney's lineup, but it was part of a unique lineup of cartoons called the cartoon cartoons with unique styles and witty dialogue, and out of all the cartoon cartoons, it was one of the most iconic CN TV series I've ever seen. Calarts needs more people like Craig McCracken on TV nowadays

Boring, over-done feminist "You go girl!" stereotypes that teach impressionable girls to expect too much of themselves if they are anything less than the Mary-Sues they saw on T.V. The idea that little girls are supposed to go to school like normal, and constantly save the city is laughable..doesn't their world have any better suitors for the job (like big strong men)?Bad villains, repetitive plot line where nothing really gets done at the end of the day. Same beginning, same ending. The PPG will still be at the same position they started in. Yawn.Unoriginal and crude humor that doesn't offer anything new. I guess if the show has enough pretty colors, people will watch it even if the plot and dialogue under-perform. There's a weird fetish part of the fan base as can be seen in the forum discussion. To sum up this show in two words: Colorful junk.

To be completely honest I still don't know why I used to praise a cartoon like "The Powerpuff Girls" when I was a kid. I mean sure I grew up with the cartoons from Cartoon Network being my childhood favorite channel that I used to watch religiously no matter what. But returning with the Powerpuff Girls I can see that this show hasn't aged well, in fact I don't think this show really cared that much for itself either. In my opinion I didn't like the way how the famous animator Craig McCracken made this show so repetitive, I mean looking at it again I can honestly say that this show was pretty much formulaic at best.I am a bit surprised to see how the main characters were always this petulant, yes I know what you're thinking (It's just a cartoon dude) but I have to care about the show's character development. And frankly the girls personality didn't only remain unchanged but one thing that really annoyed me about this show was that how the girls would never learn their mistakes but especially doing one of the most irritating things when they were committing contradictions. And that bugs me a lot, because it's like telling to the children it's OK to steal candy without nobody ever noticing them.I know I'm being nit-picky here but another flaw I simply didn't like the show was it's villains. Not necessarily their attitudes, but it makes me wonder how they can simply escape from the jails that easily every time PPG kicked their butts. It gets repeated all over again and you get the picture. Plus after so many episodes why couldn't at least the PPG destroyed Mojo Jojo's volcano lab? After all "they" were the ones who build it if you've seen the movie before so why not destroy his lab and end his world domination plans? It leaves with so many plot holes and missed opportunities.Although there were some episodes were the show would actually get more serious tones than they usually do but ultimately most of them would still come to a very cheesy and predictable resolutions (well except for one episode with the one who had Christine Cavanaugh (R.I.P.) as guest voice acting and IMO I think that was one of the rare occasions the show finally could have taken a step further to become (just slightly) more mature but likewise it completely ignored it and forgot the whole thing entirely.)Plus even though a certain episode wouldn't contain anything about heroism or action those episodes would still be pretty much boring, forgettable and pathetic at best and still having the same danged ending despite not doing anything for their people and the city.But not only that (albeit unrelated), the other kinds of things that also annoys me with PPG is how so many other cartoons had tried to be like this show. Like for example "My Life as a Teenage Robot" (actually I still believe that cartoon took many inspirations and tributes to this show), while in my opinion not as bad as this show but ultimately failed to reach it's potential to become something even better than what it eventually became more dumber than serious just for the sake of it's comedy just like PPG.On the other hand, the animation wasn't that bad. Not only was it colorful but the movements were at least well drawn and executed, but even though the shows style pretty much felt derived from Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab. Yes I know they used to work together back then but I can't help it but feel like Genndy's style has been used for so many times in a bad way (if you know what I mean.)With all that being said, PPG is a disappointing show and taking a look at it again didn't help me change my mind. It should have been better when it had the chance, but ultimately ignored those possibilities and kept being just another cartoon with these annoying clichés that had inspired many other cartoonists for their works. Much of the same things can be said to McCrackens second show "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" albeit much better than his previous work it managed to become generally bad as well thanks to these forsaken clichés like PPG had.Now I'm not so sure what to think of this new upcoming reboot of this show, but I honestly don't think it's going to go well not because of the lack of the real voice actresses but only for the sake of the channel itself. Not a good glimpse I'm afraid.1/10