Powerpuff Girls the movie

[Cheebs]

I'm looking forward to this one. I've always loved the show. I've got a tiny stuffed Bubbles hanging from the head of my guitar, actually.

[Riisuke]

I am SOOO there

[Hero]

I can't wait

[Nash]

hell yeah i'm there. i was digging the powerpuff girls when they were nothing more than 10 minute skit between shows. every laughed at me then, but who's laughing now?

[Shin Johnpv]

ive loved the PPG since day one so i cant wait for this movie and the little teasers i see every day on cartoon network get me sooo giddy

its a little known fact but they are making a Johnny Bravo movie too cant wait for that i love Johnny B

personally i think most the cartoon cartoons kick ass
Dexter
the Power Puff Girls
Johnny Bravo
Grim and Evil
Time Squad
Courage

only one im not too fond of is Ed,Edd, and Eddy theyre allright some of their episodes are quite good others are a bit flat

i tell you the only 3 channels that are ever on my tv are Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, and Fox with CN getting the most time

(side note in case anyone loves Bugs Bunny as much as i do June Bugs is on CN right now)

[Klonoa]

Originally posted by Johnpv

its a little known fact but they are making a Johnny Bravo movie too cant wait for that i love Johnny B

big fan of johnny bravo right here.

[Shin Johnpv]

Johnny Bravo is just sooo damn funny it never gets old

cant wait to see what the movie will be like

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Just thought all the PPG fans might like to know AICN has posted some very positive reviews:

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12590

MORIARTY Sees POWERPUFF GIRLS Premiere And Miike’s ICHI THE KILLER In The Same Day!! Brain Melts!!

Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.

Okay. First things first. Fair warning. If you got linked here from some POWERPUFF GIRLS website, looking for a review of only that film, let me tell you now... I’m going to be talking about two movies in this review, and the other one is about as far from a Cartoon Network production as is possible. I’ll try and give you a signal before I shift into my comments on the second film, and when I do... run. Don’t walk. And don’t look back.

Anyone who still has trouble understanding why Harry and I spend time setting a review in context need only look at a day like Saturday to understand how important that is to understand how a reviewer reacts to something. My movie viewing day started the night before, in a way, when I got a mysterious call. “Hello... is this Moriarty?”

I’m used to mysterious calls. It’s to be expected at this point, quite frankly. “Yes. It is. Can I help you?”

”How would you like tickets for tomorrow morning to the POWERPUFF GIRLS premiere?” I looked at the clock. It was about 3:30 in the morning. Again, I’m somewhat used to this, considering the bizarre office hours I keep.

”What time is it?”

”11:00. I’ll drop the tickets off tomorrow morning. Just tell me where.”

I described the location of the Labs to the mysterious caller, telling him where to turn north from Franklin and explaining where the secret entrance to the Labs is, right there on the street under Kevin Smith’s new house. It was more fun to spy when it was Affleck’s party house. Smith’s such a family man. But I digress. The next morning, when I woke up, the tickets were waiting in an envelope, and I headed out for Century City.

The red carpet outside the premiere was surreal. It’s a good thing I’m too old to do any drugs harder than Metamucil, because I would have had a full-on Hunter S. Thompson moment at the sight of the hundreds of little kids running in every direction and the giant full-size Powerpuff Girls costumed characters wandering around and posing for photos with the kids. I sort of ricocheted off Tom Kinney, who does the voices of The Mayor and The Narrator for the show and the movie, and all I could think was, “Holy cow, that’s Binky The Clown!” Binky Fever... catch it! Then a giant costumed Mojo Jojo almost knocked me down, and I realized that I was like Godzilla in downtown Tokyo, hopelessly out of scale, a hazard to most of the people on the carpet. I ducked through the metal detectors, grabbed one of the drinks (mmmm... watered-down small Sprites for everyone!), and found a seat. They were giving away swag everywhere you turned, but it was all kid-oriented... little hats and bags with toys and cookies shaped like the characters. There was a host onstage in the front of the theater, teaching the kids dances and songs and doing contests to give away even more swag, and I swear I don’t think that guy took a breath once the entire morning. It was hard not to smile at the sheer manic energy of the whole thing. The kids were genuinely excited to be seeing this particular film, and I couldn’t help but flash on the crowd at the Chinese two weeks earlier for the SCOOBY-DOO premiere. Same company, AOL/Time-Warner, also a big kid’s premiere, with tons of kids in attendance. The energy was totally different, though. The kids at SCOOBY weren’t interested in the film. There was a group of girls in front of us who couldn’t have been older than nine, all of them already bored and cynical about the entire premiere experience, more worried about what “Freddy and Sarah” were wearing than about the film itself. It was funny and sad in equal measure. I didn’t detect even a bit of that in the pre-POWERPUFF audience, though. Those kids were there to have a good time.

And, once the lights went down, they did. There’s a special new DEXTER’S LABORATORY cartoon in front of the feature, and it’s a pleasant enough little short. I like Genndy Tartakovsky a lot (saw him settling into a seat a few rows in front of mine just before the lights went down), and I think he’s one of the best guys out there at pure cartoons right now. Still, I’m not familiar with DEXTER, really, and it seemed to be a long way to go for a fairly benign payoff at the end.

No worries, though. As soon as the short was over, the Warner Bros. logo came up, followed by the new Cartoon Network movies logo (as sweet and specific in its own way as the new Marvel Films logo I love so much), and then we’re off. It’s an 87 minute movie, and it never stops to take a breath. The opening credits show Professor Utonium (voiced by Tom Kane) in his lab, at work, while a monkey rampages around the lab. Anyone familiar with the show knows what’s coming, but if you don’t, you can just sit back and let director Craig McCracken do his job. This is, in its own way, a superhero movie, and it knows the form quite well. It’s an origin story, but it’s also an arch-enemy story. The first half of the film details the creation of the Powerpuff Girls and their gradual acclimation to their superpowers. The second half of the film sees them go head to head with Mojo Jojo (voiced by Roger L. Jackson), their greatest enemy.

It’s pretty much just that simple. The girls are created, and they’re each given names appropriate to their personalities: Blossom (Catherine Cavadini), “because she is so open, so curious, so ready to ask questions”; Bubbles (Tara Strong), “because of her bubbly laugh”; and the appealingly grouchy Buttercup (E.G. Daily), “because that name ALSO starts with a B.” Professor Utonium is prepared to raise them as his own, as normal little girls, never realizing what Chemical X has done to them. The film’s biggest and best sequence involves an innocent game of tag on the playground of their elementary school that turns into a full-blown discovery of their powers that almost levels Townsville. There’s a real joy of animation and storytelling in this sequence, and it’s beautiful in a hyper-stylized way. The girls are outcasts because of the innocent destruction they wreak upon the city, and the Professor is arrested. Just when things are at their worst, a mysterious friend shows up, a familiar monkey with an enormous exposed brain. What the girls don’t realize is that they’re being used for a plan that will see every human being in Townsville under the control of a race of super-intelligent monkeys, all of them under the command of Mojo Jojo, also created in the explosion that made them who they are.

And, yes, all of this is just as silly onscreen as it sounds here. That’s part of the appeal.

There are moments of glorious, sublime silliness here. Personally, I love it when Mojo Jojo uses Chemical X and a machine built by the Powerpuff Girls (see the film for the explanation) to transform all the monkeys and apes in Townsville into super-intelligent apes like himself, intent on commanding them as an army, only to have each of them declare themselves the leader, with wars breaking out between each maniacal monkey despot and no one paying even the slightest hint of attention to Mojo Jojo. Many of the monkeys build robots for themselves, and one of them that made me laugh out loud actually drops little pellet bomb turds into its hand and throws them at people. Someone must have been laughing so hard they had trouble holding a pencil while they drew that. It’s inventive, sweet as can be, and doesn’t overstay its welcome by even a moment. If you have a POWERPUFF fan in your house or you are one yourself, you will be enormously pleased by the film, andif you’re not, this is as good a time as any to check and see if the particular charms of the cartoon might work on you.

And now, if you just came for the POWERPUFF GIRLS review, it’s time for you to go.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12606

The Pole Of Justice Is Knocked Loopy By THE POWERPUFF GIRLS: THE MOVIE!!

Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.

I’m telling you... it’s better than you think it’s going to be... just take a gander at what our Talk Backer, The Pole Of Justice, had to say after stumbling out of a screening...
Minor, creampuff spoilers:

Powerpuff Girls: The Movie... where to begin? Well, I’m a fan, so I was admittedly pretty primed to see this, and seeing what they did with the geek reference fest of “Meet The Beat Alls,” it’s anyone’s guess what kind of in-joke Hell McCracken and Co. have cooked up for us...

Speaking of in-jokes, you could watch the thing for those alone (two characters talk entirely in Van Halen references, Mojo’s first big scene reminds me of GHOST DOG and... God help us... there’s even a quick scene that I swear they took from TETSUO II: THE BODY HAMMER.) All of which is well and good, but how does the thing hang together?

The film actually drug a bit for me in the first reel or so, although “drug” in this context is extremely relative (I love slow, formalist work, but in a Powerpuff Girls movie, even a fairly brisk pace for the exposition seems a bit slow.) Fortunately, that doesn’t last long, although the film doesn’t truly kick into high gear until Mojo Jojo enacts his evil plan...

... and when that happens, all bets are off. There are moments here that are so lightning fast that I was reminded of the Pokemon epilepsy syndrome: watching it unprepared in a theatre with a big screen might give some a serious headache. For the rest of us, this is probably the most energetic, spastic, and generally high octane thing that American animation has produced. So much so, in fact, that when the film takes a bit of a breather (the girls strand themselves on an asteroid... don’t ask), it takes the duration of the scene for the ringing in your head to go away.

So, um... is it any GOOD? Yeah. Very. I was actually reminded of the last 20 minutes of SHAOLIN SOCCER, in that sheer, unadulterated, uncut kickass simply flew from the screen in seemingly random (but very, very energetic) directions. The animation isn’t particularly more detailed or deeper than the show, but the visual concepts, as well as the flow of the action, are considerably more ambitious (the “Tag” sequence, wherein Blossom does that Tetsuo run-on-the-side-of-the-building thing, among others, is as kinetic as anything I’ve witnessed in my 33 years on this planet.) Dear God.

Throw a big borderline Armageddon (the actual thing, not the movie) ending on top of this, and... well... I was EXHAUSTED. It seems odd in the extreme to be emotionally drained by something this tongue in cheek, but I was seriously as dazed after PPG: THE MOVIE as I was after the first time I saw AKIRA. I wouldn’t draw too many conceptual parallels between the two works (in fact, I wouldn’t draw any at all,) but the feeling of having pulled an entire, catacalysmic universe into your skull via your eyeballs is the same.

Which leads me to: this thing way well scare the living snot out of younger kids. Mojo looks downright unsettling in the last 20 minutes, and the sheer, hardcore intensity of the goings on might be too much for some kids under the age of, I dunno, eight (this is a guess: I have no kids I know well enough to give a real estimate.) There’s nothing OBJECTIONABLE in it, but the overall whirlwind may get the panic juices flowing in the wee ones. And an extended crying sequence, courtesy of the freakishly high-pitched Bubbles, might not help matters either (I swear, I thought I heard some digital feedback emanating from the speakers during one wail.)

So... use your judgment as to whether or not to take the kids (although really, it’s only the YOUNG young ones I’d be concerned about,) but, IMHO, all good geeks need to see this.

The Pole Of Justice... out.

[Regus]

- Dexter's Lab short film (!) (Christina Cavanah(sp?) had better reprise her role)
- Cool Marvel-esque Cartoon Network logo.
- Craig McCracken directed it.


Damn, now I really can't wait to see this.

Why oh why did they have to release it on the same day as Men in Black 2.

[Regus]

Being a fan of the show, this movie version left me feeling a little dissapointed, but that's probably because it was the origin story for characters that have been around for years, and it did not really interest me that much.

A few quick notes:
- The Dexter's Lab short that plays before the feature was pretty crappy. I really hate the new look and voice actors they are using for this series.
- The Cartoon Network logo is on par with the new Marvel logo in Spider-Man, in other words, it's really cool.
- Did you catch the Craig McCracken cameo?