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The Powerpuff Girls is a 2001 American science fiction/ action-adventure comedy film action film based on the franchise of the same name. The film, which combines computer animation with live-action filming, was directed by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg and released on November 14, 2001 by Paramount Pictures.
Upon release, the film had received positive reviews from critics and fans who praised its visuals, the performances, and its faithfulness to the source material.
== Premise ==
In the crime and injustice-riddled city of Townsville, Professor Utonium creates a mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice in the hopes of producing the "perfect little girl" to improve Townsville. However, he gets shoved by his laboratory assistant, the destructive chimpanzee Jojo, which causes him to accidentally break and spill a flask of Chemical X onto the concoction. The experiment is successful, producing three little girls whom the Professor names Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. He also discovers that the girls have gained superpowers from the added Chemical X. Despite the girls' recklessness with their powers, they all immediately grow to love each other as a family.
On their first day of school, the girls learn about the game of tag and begin to play it among themselves, which quickly grows destructive once they use their powers. The girls take their game downtown, where they accidentally cause massive damage to the city until the Professor calms them down. The next day, the girls are treated as outcasts by the citizens of Townsville as a result of the destruction they have caused and the Professor is arrested for creating the girls. Believing that using their powers again will only anger the townspeople more, the girls try to make their way home from school on foot, but they become lost in an alleyway and are attacked by the Gangreen Gang. They are rescued by Jojo, whose brain has been mutated by the Chemical X explosion, giving him superintelligence.
Planning control of the city and revenge on the Professor for replacing him with the girls, Jojo gains the girls' sympathy by convincing them that he is also hated for his powers; he tricks the girls into helping him build a laboratory and machine powered by Chemical X, which he claims will earn them the affections of the city. Afterwards, Jojo rewards the girls with a trip to the local zoo, where he secretly implants small transportation devices on all the primates there, to which that night Jojo brings the primates to his lab and uses his new machine to inject them with Chemical X, which turns them into evil mutants 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 that the city is under attack by the primates. Jojo, renaming himself as Mojo Jojo, publicly announces the girls as his assistants, which damages their reputation further and makes the distraught Professor lose faith in 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 disobey him and concoct their own plans to terrorize 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. After his army is defeated, Mojo Jojo injects himself with Chemical X and grows into a giant monster, overpowering the girls in an intense battle. Rejecting Mojo Jojo's offer of an alliance to take over the world, the girls push him off a decrepit skyscraper as soon as the Professor arrives with an antidote for Chemical X to help the girls. Mojo Jojo 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 normal girls, but the people of Townsville protest against this and apologize for misjudging them, thanking them for their heroic deeds. At the request of Townsville's 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 "the Powerpuff Girls".
== Cast ==
* Cathy Cavadini as Blossom, the intelligent and dutiful leader of the Powerpuff Girls.
* Tara Strong as Bubbles, the sweet and cheerful member of the Powerpuff Girls.
* E. G. Daily as Buttercup, the tough and brash member of the Powerpuff Girls.
* Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo, a chimpanzee mutated by Chemical X who becomes the Powerpuff Girls' archenemy.
* Jason Lee as Professor Utonium, the Powerpuff Girls' creator and father; and Talking Dog, a small white dog who is blunt, abrasive and insulting.
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== Production ==
=== Development ===
In 1995, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to produce and distribute a film based on The Powerpuff Girls,
On June 10, 1996, a live-action animated film was announced as a joint venture between Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, Steven Spielberg signed on to direct a film based on the series.
On January 7, 1997, it was revealed that directorial efforts had shifted from Spielberg to Robert Zemeckis, who had previously been hand-picked by Spielberg to direct the Back to the Future film franchise and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
=== Post-production ===
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=== Casting ===
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=== Filming ===
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=== Visual effects and design ===
The visual effects are provided by ImageMovers, Industrial Light & Magic, Marza Animation Planet, Ubisoft Digital Graphics and Ubisoft Animation.
Originally, the designs from the film were meant to be nonfaithful to the original videogame series, and more realistic. However, they were not received well by TBA, and the creative team led by TBA that was developing the film's character designs decided to give them designs more faithful to the series. The designs were changed to giving the Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup a more cartoony-like appearance with color fur and TBA. The new design for the Blossom and her crew was done by young newcomer artist TBA.
== Release ==
Powerpuff Girls was released on November 14, 2001. TBA
== Differences from the original show ==
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== Cultural references ==
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== Trivia ==
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