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[King Moonraiser]

The movie was perfect. I mean it. Absolutely perfect. The pacing, action, storyline, characters, inside jokes, pop-culture references, and animation were all perfect. Yeah, yeah... It conflicts a bit with other episodes. Things like:
Why did the RRBs automatically know their own names, but the PPGs didn't?
The RRBs followed a 'B' naming convention at birth while the PPGs 'B' naming rule was more arbitrary.
How could the girls have acted so stupidly in the "Town and Out" episode since they already learned their lesson about handling their powers more responsibly from the prequel days?You know what? I don't care. Even though the movie brushed aside a couple of details from two of my all time favorite episodes, I just don't care. I loved this movie. This was everything the a PPG prequel should have been.

Perhaps what I loved the most was the underlying lesson of the story. It involves a familiar theme: being different than everyone else, but it's not the same old tale of a "hero's angst" that many darker comic books and movies use. For the first time in the PPG show's history, we can clearly see the difference between good and evil in the PPG universe. The key to a character's alignment is based on how he or she reacts to being unloved. Mojo's feelings of rejection turn to anger and bitterness. He schemes his revenge against humanity for making him an outcast. The girls remain true to their hero status. They choose not to follow the way of Mojo even though many of his feelings against Townsville are valid. No. The girls do not join Mojo. Why? Because of their morality. Amazing! Their choice to do the right thing even though the very people the girls are trying to save do not appreciate or love them back is a sign of great maturity. Such selflessness is uncommon these days. Think about other characters like Princess, Robin Snyder, Fuzzy Lumkins (from the pilot), heck, even Elmer Sglue. Remember the choices made by each of them and how it affected their lives?

It's a shame that the movie didn't attract more people into the theaters. The box office returns were pretty slim compared to other children oriented movies released around the same time. There's a number of theories why fans didn't come out to see the movie. Some have theorized that the older fans were too embarrassed to be seen in public attending a movie based on a show made for little girls. Maybe that's true to a certain degree, however, most of the blame for this can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Warner Brothers itself. Their lackluster promotion of the movie was the primary reason its returns were less than stellar. Besides, if they couldn't get older fans into theater, who's fault is that? Who were all those teens and adults in the theater with me back when Shrek and the South Park movie were playing?

Here's a link to another review written by Alan Back that he did for his university newspaper's Entertainment section.

Update! Alan wrote transcripts to the Interviews portion and Additional Scenes from the DVD.

[Blake]

I own a copy... completely awesome! I have to say I've seen it enough(both with and without the commentary) to notice one single thing that always kinda bugs me.

In the scene near the end of the movie, when the the girls knock monster Mojo off of the 'Cartoon Network' skyscraper, he leaves a monster- sized crack in the pavement, then he shrinks from the antidote X. On the very next scene *poof* the crack is gone! Self- repairing asphalt? my town needs some of that! :D

[Xion Nightblade]

It was an ok movie for a series that went out with a whimper

[Agent Orange]

This is one of the best movies I've seen to date, sheer perfection.

Too bads the European version never got the deleted scenes and toehr stuff, besides the interviews (we did get those), I would love to see those.

[TMBpower]

There were too many conflicting questions to make me give the movie a 5-star rating. However, the graphics were just awesome; the Girls' new style looked great! All those scenes drawing out their personalities were just too cute. But I hated the whole Mojo Jojo-with-the-monkeys-thing. Compared to other Mojo episodes, I was expecting more then a weird cloning idea. So, it wasn't bad, prequel-wise; at least it was better then Star Wars Ep I.:P

Quote: Some have theorized that the older fans were too embarrassed to be seen in public attending a movie based on a show made for little girls.

I had a hard time convincing myself to see it (and I got a LOT of stares!), and I was 14.XD

Gotta see the movie again...

[DarkGunn]

King Moonraiser wrote: Why did the RRBs automatically know their own names, but the PPGs didn't?


indeed, thats what I asked myself after I watched it

[tosai-tosai]

The movie was cool, but I thought it could be have been something else but still it was good.

[pandapuff]

Movie aside, who remembers the contest where you sent in pictures you drew of the ppgs and they could appear in the film? Better yet, who remembers the winners?

[King Moonraiser]

I don't know, but I do remember the scene with the picture.

[Snakelover]

the movie was pretty good...

[Sara]

I LOVED the movie. It was absolutely excellent. :o

[Natty]

pandapuff wrote: Movie aside, who remembers the contest where you sent in pictures you drew of the ppgs and they could appear in the film? Better yet, who remembers the winners?

Oh boy do I ever remember that! I entered!
What a thing to piss someone off.

[LDEJRuff]

I have the movie recorded on a VHS tape and it's pretty good.

[Suhey]

i also have the movie i loved how they beat the monkeys!!!! :D


what is this talk about a contest :?

[timbox129]

And I have a great, but fantasy idea. I'm Talking About a Newly-Reconstructed 87-minute 2012 Special Edition of the Powerpuff Girls Movie. This 2012 Theatrical Re-Release will have better publicity and better public interest than the original release. It will have a 316-day theatrical run. By 2012, Everyone will began calling it one of the greatest animated feature films ever made. Skywalker Sound and Park Road Post will create a newly redone Dolby Digital Surround EX, DTS ES, and SDDS 8-Channel Remix with new sound effects to knock your socks off. Craig McCracken, Tim Box, Legendary Pictures, Robert A. Harris, Warner Bros., and Twentieth Century Fox, ILM, and Dolby Digital Cinema, and Real-D Cinema will also convert The Powerpuff Girls Movie: Special Edition into an alternate version of Disney Digital 3D, called Tim Box Digital 3D. It will also be re-released into IMAX theatres around the world. Due to The Powerpuff Girls Movie's Dark Content, The Film will be re-rated PG-13 for this 2012 theatrical rerelease. On November 2012, there will also be a more elaborate, super-uber, 7-Disc Special Edition Box Set of the Powerpuff Girls Movie from Tim Box and The Criterion Collection with THX-Certified HD Digital 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers, Dolby EX 5.1 and DTS ES 6.1 audio for the Special Edition, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio for the Theatrical Version and 58 hours of content on 7 large DVD-9's with larger bitrates, and highly-collectible digipack packaging inside a highly-collectible Box Set Slipcover. To Promote the 2012 Special Edition Re-Release, there will also be a 1,536-page book called The Powerpuff Girls Movie: The Making, The Art, and The Vision of An Animated Film. So what will you think of it? And What will you think of the 2012 Skywalker Sound/Park Road Post remix for The Powerpuff Girls Movie?