I love this show, but not for the reasons that I keep seeing all the time. For me, it’s just funny, well-written, and never too serious. Shows that don’t try too hard and just let us enjoy the ride are too rare these days. Best example: The Bare Facts. A completely routine 30 second battle-and-rescue, and the girls spend the next 10 minutes arguing over what really happened. Priceless.
Let me just say, too, that I think that not only is Meat the Beat-alls is the MOST OVERRATED EPISODE EVER, it fails the primary test of anything that uses references…i.e., it still has to stand on its own. I don’t even understand how a diehard Beatles fan (which I most certainly am not) can so completely praise an episode that does nothing more than copy song titles and a few visual elements, without so much as a word on the culture the Beatles burst into and how it made them famous. Okay, pet peeve over…
I’ll probably see the movie on DVD; I’ve given up going to theaters for various reasons. One thing I don’t understand is why superhero movies, almost without exception, focus so obsessively on the origin. We know the origin, dammit. But from what I’ve heard, it’s a pretty funny movie and well within the spirit of the cartoon, so it’s worth a viewing.
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Fighting crime, trying to save the world/Here they come, just in time/The PowerPuff Girls!
Great villains - I saw one episode recently where they needed Mojo to HELP them defeat a sinister alien invasion. They did this by playing on Mojo’s ego - “These aliens are wayyyyy more evil than you…”
I was expecting some adventure, instead the story was poorly driven and paled in comparison to the movie. My mother went with me and she said in frustration, “If that yellow bitch doesn’t shut the fuck up I’m going to leave” and many people in the movie theatre roared in laughter.
Bubbles cried and cried and cried to the end of time.
THe movie was such a HUGE disappointment in my opinion. They need to stick with the regular 15-minutes episodes and promise never to make a movie. Its awfulness was only compounded with the WORSE (and I do say the WORSE) Dexter Laboratory “bonus” episode.
That is my favorite one! Buttercup as Mange is hilarious and Bubbles slowly hopping down the street on her pogo stick just kills me every time I see it. And the monster at the end basically going, “WTF Girls?!”
I think the movie sucked though. It was a pre-quel and it was slooooooow. Kiddo loved it though.
The Dexter’s Lab cartoon was so awful I can’t believe they even included it.
I’ve been a huge fan, but I haven’t yet seen the movie…I don’t know. Maybe I’ll wait till it comes out on video- I’m not such a huge theatre fan. I also agree, that usually just the fifteen/half hour episodes are good- an hour and a half might be too much. A word on Dexter- I HATE what they’ve done to it now. Dexter’s turned into this ADD riddled strange voice creature- ugh. Sorry, hijack over.
Also, I’m kind of sad that it’s so huge. I saw an interview with Craig McCracken (or part of one anyway, on the TV Guide Channel), and he said that he never envisioned it having this much success- he thought it might be a cult, perhaps big among the college crowd, but not much else. And I liked it that way. Now it’s like everywhere, commercials for Toys R Us and stuff…not that I’m a rabid anti-capitalism person, it’s just I liked it on a smaller scale, where it was more…maybe not cult, but personal. It was just fun, quirky. You know, girls who can fly and outsmart the mayor, but still take pleasure in coloring, or experience the wonders of sibling rivalry. It’s nice to have a series do so well, but it’s just depressing, for me anyway.
The “Super Zeroes” episode (Mange, Harmony Bunny, Liberty Bell) was great. Loved Buttercup selling her soul to get her “costume.” So many great moments. I did like the Beat-Alls episode, I found it cute. “Telephonies,” “Octi-Evil,” and “Mime for a Change” are my faves, though.
I couldn’t even watch the PPG even when they were only hosting the Wizard of Oz singalong. Why? It’s when they blink. The way their eyelids are drawn is too intrusive, such a large area covered in a fraction of a second is irritating. That was just on a 19-inch TV, I shudder to think how it would look on a movie screen.
Another Love the show, hate the movie person checking in. My fiancee and I watch PPG religiously. (Favorite episodes: Super Zeroes, and Criss Cross Crisis, where everyone’s minds and bodies get switched.) But the movie lacked most of what makes the show great for adults: the subtle humor, and the different spin on familiar stories. In comparison the movie was very straightforward and boring.
Honesty, what “yellow bitch” was your mother talking about? Bubbles? I can’t think of anyone else with much yellow on them.
BTW, I was disappointed with Meet the Beat-alls, too.
Took my three year old yesterday and I have to admit that it was pretty bad. The destruction scenes went on waaaay toooo loooong and there was none of the charm or humor of the TV episodes.
My wife bought the tie-in book version a couple of days before we saw it and I have to say that, in all seriousness, the book was better than the movie!
Love the show, loved the movie, and I was surrounded by a theater full of people who felt the same. I’ve already seen it twice, and I’ll probably see it again in the theater. The destruction scenes were just right, especially the tag sequence. It also nailed why Mojo Jojo is their arch-nemesis.
The best episode of the regular series was " The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever ". My only complaint with the movie is they had the sound system in the theatre cranked up, so I got a headache from the ridiculously loud techno theme music.
