The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Plot synopsis:
Professor Utonium creates a mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice in hope of producing the perfect little girl to improve Townsville, a city plagued by crime and injustice. He is shoved by his laboratory assistant, the destructive chimpanzee Jojo, causing him to accidentally break a nearby flask of a mysterious substance called Chemical X, which spills into the mixture and explodes in Jojo's face. The experiment is successful, producing three little girls whom the Professor names Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. He discovers that the girls also have superpowers from the added Chemical X. Despite the girls' recklessness with their powers, they all immediately grow to love each other as a family.
During their first day of school, the girls learn about the game tag and begin to play among themselves, which quickly grows destructive once they use their powers. The girls take their game downtown, accidentally causing massive damage to the city until the Professor calms them down. The next day, the girls are treated as outcasts by the citizens of Townville as a result of the destruction they have caused, and the Professor is arrested for creating the girls. Realizing that using their powers again will only anger the townspeople more, the girls try to make their way home from school on foot. They become lost in an alleyway and are ambushed by the Gangreen Gang, only to be rescued by Jojo, whose brain has been mutated by the Chemical X explosion, which gives him superintelligence.
Planning control of the city, Jojo gains the girls' sympathy by saying he is also hated for his powers. Jojo convinces the girls to help him build a laboratory and machine powered by Chemical X, which he claims will gain them the affections of the city. Jojo rewards the girls with a trip to the local zoo, where he secretly implants small transportation devices on all the primates there. That night, Jojo transports the primates into his lab and uses his new machine to inject them with Chemical X, turning them into evil mutant primates like himself. The next morning, after the Professor is released from prison, the girls show him all the "good" they have done, only to discover the city under attack by the primates. Jojo, renaming himself Mojo Jojo, publicly announces the girls as his assistants, which further damages their reputation and even turns the distraught Professor against them. Dejected, the girls exile themselves to an asteroid in outer space.
Mojo Jojo announces his intention to rule the planet, but becomes frustrated when his minions begin concocting their own plans to terrorize the people of Townsville. Overhearing the turmoil from space, the girls return to Earth and rescue the citizens, realizing they can use their powers to fight the primates. With his army defeated, Mojo injects himself with Chemical X and grows into a giant monster, overpowering the girls after an intense battle. Rejecting Mojo's offer of alliance against the people who have shunned them, the girls push him off a decrepit skyscraper as soon as the Professor arrives with a newly developed antidote for Chemical X to help the girls. Mojo lands on the Antidote X, which shrinks him down to his original size, battered and defeated.
The girls consider using the Antidote X to erase their powers, thinking they would be accepted as ordinary girls. The people of Townsville protest, apologizing for misjudging the girls and thanking them for their heroic deeds. At the insistence of the Mayor, the girls agree to use their powers to defend Townsville with the Professor's permission, becoming the city's beloved crime-fighting superhero team who are dubbed "the Powerpuff Girls".

Tags: good versus evil, psychedelic, violence

Review:
The Powerpuff Girls is 90 minutes of bright neon fun, and it is definitely worth a look, but be warned: some kids and adults may find that the experience is too loud or taxing.
There are some groovy action sequences (like the destructive game of tag), great jokes for the kids, adults, and movie-buffs (Jay and Silent Bob are there, man, just look for them!), and some amazing animation.
Amidst a year of big eye candy live action movies that will make a ton of money and lame teen comedies that everybody but me seems to find funny, a movie like The Powerpuff Girls isn't likely to stand out.
Unlike all of the other cartoons-turned-big-screen movies, The Powerpuff Girls is actually fun to look at.
With sugar, spice, everything nice, and Chemical X he not only created the crime fighting perfect little girls (Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup) but he created the evil Mojo Jojo as well.
but in a Cinematic, Fun Time at the Movies kinda way.The cartoon is cute enough, and the writing is always sharp, with little in-jokes or puns thrown in...
Released in 2002 to a rather pithy box office take (read: bomb), The Powerpuff Girls Movie is nonetheless a great way to kill 80 minutes.In case you're new to the whole PPG phenomenon (and it is indeed a phenomenon, now a multi-million dollar industry spawning every conceivable form of merchandise from keychains to breakfast cereals), the story goes like this: Professor Utonium set out to create three perfect little girls by mixing the above ingredients.
It's by no means an animation breakthrough, but The Powerpuff Girls Movie is a blast from start to finish, and that's good enough for me.My Grade: 8/10.
No wonder so many parents are spooked away from this pretty bizarre film in the first place!The use of many different kinds of monkeys (with distended brains, of course!) as a part of evil force is a very interesting concept indeed and some CGI effects are fascinating to witness, like a whole army of gigantic monkey robots ravaging the innocent little city of Townsville.
1st watched 7/5/2002 - 6 out of 10(Dir-Craig McCracken): Different and interesting animated movie based on the cult-like girl-followed popular television show on the cartoon network.
Yes, there is violent content and the evil that they face is `very' evil, but you can't help but love the well-intentioned `Professor' trying to be a parent to these over-achiever kindergartner's and his attempt to make them good little girls made of sugar, and spice and everything nice despite their super-human strengh.
The kids in the cinema were also laughing a lot, just at different times to us.Anyone who goes along and says "This movie is only to market some toys" kinda missed the point of some harmless yet funny entertainment.
Of course it's there to market the toys, companies are there to make as much money as they can and if they are providing a good entertaining product then who is to deny them the fruits of their labour.All up this is a hilarious movie about the genesis of the Powerpuff Girls which has never really been covered beyond the opening credits and as such was interesting for the completion of a storyline and also very funny for the foibles of 3 pre-school aged girls with super powers trying to come to terms with their place in the world.Many funny moments such as the game of tag through the city (causing massive destruction of course) as well as many many funny monkey jokes, corny as they are.Enjoy the movie, it doesn't answer any of lifes deep questions, but does fulfil one of lifes deep needs.
It's mindless fluff, and the series often has an occasional bit of in-humor that is amusing and shows the writers are my age, or at least have seen some of the same programs, commercials, and lived in LA like I have (The episode with the Dynamo, which is a direct rip-off of the Japanese monster movie genre in general and "Johnny Socko and his Giant Robot" in particular is wonderful).The problem with the film is that is you have ever felt rejected because you are different - maybe shy, maybe fat, maybe just plain out of place - the movie may open that part of your mind up just a bit.
The Cartoon Network's first movie "The Powerpuff Girls" does deserve credit for ambition; this is an origins movie (and unlike some movies based on TV shows, this does feel like a proper movie) and it's not afraid to be serious.
In fact, that's the biggest problem with the tale - for a lot of the time it's almost too serious to be as much fun as its source.As explained on one TV episode (and here - score points for continuity), Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup were invented when Professor Utonium's chimp assistant pushed him while he was blending sugar, spice and everything nice, and caused him to accidentally add an extra ingredient to the concoction...
The movie assumes enough familiarity with the series so you'll know that the Professor threw the chimp out after the Girls were born, and that chimp (also affected in the explosion) was Mojo Jojo, who hogs the screen here as well - the show's other recurring villains either have walk-ons (notably the Gangrene Gang) or don't appear (Him is particularly missed).The low point is, sad to say, from the Powerpuffs themselves; not their characters, but the scene where they play the most destructive game of tag in history (it does set up a reason for the crime-ravaged city of Townsville to hate them, but it also goes on far, far longer than necessary).
And as said before, a lot of the fun and energy of the source is lost here (as is, apart from the opening and closing scenes, the narrator) - but the design is still great, the action speedy, we're spared songs (except for the end credits) and when the movie gets its act together it's as inventive as the source at its best (it can't resist making pop culture references to the likes of "Planet of the Apes" and other simian jokes, but at least they're good ones).
Thoughts from after I saw this in the theaters after its original release: In all the talk about why the Powerpuff Girls Movie failed, they have mentioned almost every excuse from too many animated films to the fact most theatres were not showing it past dinner time, to over saturation of the market, to the "fact TV spin offs usually don't work while the show is still on TV.What I find curious is that with all the talk no one at any point mentioned the fact is that the movie isn't all that wonderful.
It was packed with kids and their parents, mostly kids under 7, which isn't a bad thing especially when you have a three or four year old repeating every line of Buttercup's, and the whole thing takes on a surreal Rocky Horror sort of feel.The movie is essentially the story of how the girls and Mojo Jo Jo were created.
I just saw the movie today and  I  really liked it.I thought that in the beginning the girls had a special bond with the Professor in a great non-Disney way.
The Powerpuff Girls Movie is an amazing thrill ride for the fans of the show and to anybody who wants to watch a great movie.
In The City Of Townsville, a crime-ridden place, Professor Utonium decides to make a perfect little girl from sugar, spice, and everything nice (he's a single adult, you see).
When they stumble upon Mojo Jojo, a mutated chimpanzee also affected by a recent accident, and he rallies them to help the town and make it a better place so that they will be accepted (at least, that's what he tells them), the movie truly takes off.Despite looking simple compared to the Disney animated films, the animation has a charm all of it's own.
Filled with little details that are bound to make you chuckle, smile and even laugh on a few occasions, it exists in a unique animated film bubble, no other quite like it that way.The movie is a superhero origin movie, although it does some interesting things with the formula, making it not as easy to notice as some other superhero origin films.
And although I found it fun, it's sense of humor and style isn't go to appeal to everyone.In the end, The Powerpuff Girls Movie makes for an incredibly entertaining 74 minutes.
The Powerpuff Girls movie translates well onto the big screen, and it is fun to watch the creators take full advantage of the larger format.
The character models have been tweaked slightly to give them a little more presence, and the effect is refreshing, but not too different from the series to confuse long-time viewers.As for the plot, the origin story guarantees that new viewers will be able to follow the storyline without having seen any of the episodes of the TV show.
The enjoyment that an adult will get depends on how much you liked the series, but I think the movie has enough entertainment for even a non-fan to enjoy.
I really Liked the Powerpuff girls movie, but it didn't have as many laughs as the TV series usually does.
And while I understand that Powerpuff Girls and Hey Arnold are in a different class of characters than that of Beavise and Cartman, I can see the cloud about to pour torrential rain on the animated world that lies outside the realm of Disney.Powerpuff Girls is a television show that has three hoped up little girls flying around, using their magical powers to uninteltionally destroy and also help out the people of Townsville where there are also a group of monkeys and apes with huge brains sticking out of their heads (led by Mojo Jojo) who are the girls' adversaries.
Yet, I know you parents with little girls and other kids might want to take them since this movie is for them and does work on several levels for them, so I reccomend it on that basis.
The series deals with episodes like "Meet The Beat-Alls" with 10 minutes of hilarious jokes refering to the Beatles, not being understood at all by most of our kids, but it still has those colorful thingys allover the screen and cute cartoons and funny voices, that should be interpreted as entertaining by a lot of kids.
Mike (28), Yes 28 years oldMyself and a friend (29) left work early and saw this movie and it was the best, full of action, laughs and jokes that I had me laughing like a nuttier!Not usually a big cartoon fan but this was beyond belief, I have to wonder if the younger viewers find it so much good as there were none in the cinema.
Still, THE POWERPUFF GIRLS MOVIE stands as a monument to memorable animation phenomenon which more than holds up all these years later, with enough unique strengths in and of itself that I hope it one day achieves a cult status of its own in the vein of TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE, the only other big screen TV cartoon adaptation I believe to have received this level of care and consideration.
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).
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.
The story also sticks to the origins of the Powerpuff Girls and is much darker and more complex than what you most find in most animated movies.
It also has some kick-a** action and a finale that is so entertaining it would leave you breathless.Overall, The Powerpuff Girls Movie isn't a masterpiece, but it's still an entertaining cinematic adaptation of a great show!.
This movie,released in 2002,some four years after the PPG phenomenon had planted its flag on Cartoon Network(and onto the merchandise of many a little girl),was meant as a sort of love letter to their fans(mostly small kids,girls particularly)as well as a sort of "How it all started" beginnings story.As such,this seems to be better at addressing in-jokes with the kids' parents and being sort of a less-than-subtle "It's OK to be different" movie for kids.
Still,this is quite entertaining and,if you can withstand the intense elements I just described,you'll probably agree.THe beginnings for the super-charged,super hero kids is about as expected,as well-meaning but sometimes inept Professor Utonium creates the perfect little girls but accidentally mixes in Chemical X,thus making them more powerful beings.
Their powers make them WAY more potent than the average kid,and their infant-like naiveté causes them to not control their powers,thus making them vilified outcasts,perfect patsies for the rogue lab chimp-turned-evil mastermind Mojo Jojo,whose plan to take over the world has a distinctly primate feel.All the familiar contributors are a part of this effort:Creator and director Craig McCracken,head animator Genndy Taronofsky,voice talent Tom Kenny,TAra Strong,CAthy Cavandini,Elizabeth DAily,Tom Kane,Roger JAckson and Jennifer Hale all reprise their roles from the series.
If, like me, you are not familiar with the television adventures of Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles, the test-tube superhero Powerpuff Girls, this movie is a good place to start.
Hanna Berbera ruined "The Powerpuff Girls" with making a hour and 1/2 movie out of a decent 30 minite series.GOOD: Personally, I like the Portugese (Brasil) voice acting in the PPG better than I do the English version (I HATE TARA STRONG'S VOICE, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!).BAD: Plot?
Lots of pop culture references (barrel o' monkeys being one of my favorites) and although the girls' "little" game of tag seemed a bit long for young kids it was my favorite part of the movie.
"The Powerpuff Girls Movie" is a fantastic work of animation and entertainment.
It's a shame, however, that it had the unfortunate luck to be scheduled opposite not one, not two, but THREE movies all garnering for the same audience.Those familiar with the TV show will know the premise, but for those new to PPG, here it is: the lonely Professor Untonium is searching for the formula to create the perfect little girls, which turns out to be sugar, spice, and everything nice.
"The Powerpuff Girls" movie tells the story (familiar to fans of the show) of how Professor Utonium created Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.
It then takes the story a step further to show how the Girls made the decision to use their powers to fight crime and help the people of Townsville.The film is almost non-stop action and excitement.
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.
While I think the final product is good about the girls themselves, I also think it's lacking on Mojo's side, because we only briefly see him in the beginning of the movie living with the Professor before he leaves unfurl his plan.
*Possible Spoilers* This entire movie is mostly only for little girls who enjoy the TV series.
Even if you're not a kid, but you feel sometimes like one, you'll enjoy this movie, maybe more than kids.The plot is simple, but is good.
I like the movie and I'm not a big PPG fan!A little goof of the movie (not a spoiler): after a busy first day, the girls go to bed, and daddy-o Utonium put a cute purple octopus, property of the adorable Bubbles and she hug him.
This film shows us the origins of the Powerpuff Girls in more detail than the explanation that appeared before each episode of the television series.
Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of the series whatever their age; I suspect it can also be enjoyed by people who haven't watched the Powerpuff Girls before..
A great film based on the series and one of the best animated movies ever.
I love this just as much as the series and it tells when the Powerpuff Girls were created and how Jojo became Mojo Jojo.
This is actually an interesting first movie showing how the Powerpuff girls and Mojo Jojo was born.
Overall I didn't enjoy this quite as much as the series but it was still an interesting way to detail the origin of the Powerpuff Girls.
Basically the movie tells the origin story of the powerpuff girls and how they came to be.