The Powerpuff Girls first premiered in November of 1998 on Cartoon Network (though pilots for the series were featured a few years earlier). Personal note : PPG is one of my favorite Cartoon Network series and was when it first ran too. I have written about Powerpuff Girls Z when the remake series was starting in 2016 so, this time I decided to look at the Powerpuff Girls Movie that came out in theaters in 2002. (Yes I call this a TV blog, but it's more than that it's just easier to say TV blog plus, this is based on a TV show) This movie is an origin story of the Powerpuff Girls, even though the intro does explain how they were made this movie sets to explain how they became Townsville's dedicated heroes. As the title stays, Superheroes do need origin stories. Apparently, this movie is the reason Cartoon Network seems weary of releasing anymore of their TV series to theaters.
The narrator is in the movie too! He starts with mentioning that Townsville is riddled with crime (why? no body knows) and he asks if there's anyone in this town that can help make this better. It brings us to the professor who does sciencey-science things. There's also a monkey who's destroying his lab because the professor doesn't believe in cages for some reason. The mixture in the open re-acts the intro of the Powerpuff Girls where chemical x is added to the mixture Professor Utonium was working on , and it explodes. Bringing us the title card of the movie.
Woah I created life! / Copyright Warner Media
Three girls appear from the explosion and ask the professor what is his name. They suggest that he gives them names. He gives them names Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup. He quickly decides to get them gifts because it's their birthday. There's something different about these girls- they have superpowers. (what?!) There's a green money with his brain protruding out and dramatic music, that'll probably bring nothing later. There's a montage of the professor and the girls getting to know each other and setting up their lives. Since, they weren't born babies the next day is for school. Everyone at the Poke Oaks Kindergarten seems to like the girls. There are somethings to learn about though, like what is tag?
That'll buff out/ Copyright Warner Media
This tag game goes wrong when the girls do a long chase around the city causing some destruction. This tag thing does take up a good long chunk of this 73 minute long movie (yeah it's not that long) The mayor , who called Mayor in the series and movie sees that girls causing destruction actually, he wants pickles. This is his favorite thing in the series too, and the girls stop him from enjoying his pickle (that sounds wrong some how). Professor Utonium tells them when putting them to bed, that they should try not use their powers around town.
Girls. don't destroy the town next time. / Copyright Warner Media
The next day, the girls go to school, which shouldn't be open because who runs a school while there's a river of water running through it with rebuilding work going on ? There's some health and safety problems somewhere there. The other kids don't like the girls anymore. (Also, this school has no electricity who does this?) Meanwhile, the Mayor forms and angry mob because that's what mayors do , to arrest the professor. Meaning he can't pick up the girls from school and the girls start to think the Professor hates them now. The news media in the town call the girls freaks because bad people. Plot convenience time : the girls see the TV videos calling them freaks , but don' t see the news report that the professor is in jail.
The three of them try to walk home but get lost. This is when they run into a gang called the Gang Green Gang but they are saved by a shadowy figure. It's the monkey from before. ( I'm shocked) His name is JoJo. He gets the girls to help him with his plan to "make the town better". Will this make the town better? Find out after the jump!
