The Powerpuff Girls
The Powerpuff Girls
TV-Y7 | 04 April 2016 (USA)

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    SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
    Manthast Absolutely amazing
    Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.
    Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
    junsheng_chen The stories are uninspired. The new redone characters have become boring expositions more concern in delivering mechanical preachy lectures.Gone are the humor, sarcasm and organic charm of the heroes and villains.
    Exenon On here it doesn't feel like the 1998 show, but everything changes every once in a while which (unfortunately) is the same for TV. So yeh, whatcha gonna do. All that bugs me is that some personalities are on here not really completely understandable compared to the humor that isn't too much different, but this is just cause it makes the whole show feel different for a tiny detail. Well, I probably seem sneaky, but this is just my answer. But still this is a reboot but it's not so bad, come on though, you can see a few other shows are considered still great like tons of the older shows in the 90s & 2000s. Anyways yes, it's not TOO bad for a reboot, you could at least watch 4 episodes before giving up on it.
    cuterstar 6/10 would be a fair callThese 1/10, 2/10 ratings are far too biased and rageful to be considered. First, let's get the bad out of the way.The new Powerpuff girls don't have that cutesy innocence they had in the original Powerpuff Girls. I'm not sure if this new series is a time skip ahead and the girls just don't really age (possible), but they seem more like they're pre-teens or maybe late Elementary school. They're more concerned with boys, smartphone games, looking good and being popular than their 1999 counterparts. On that fact, I think the new series lost one of the key elements that made the original good. There's no naivety, none of that wonder of learning the original had. It seems these new Powerpuff girls know it all.**Special note to the rage haters: Even though we, the ones who grew up with the original Powerpuff Girls, don't like it, the new Powerpuff Girls are an accurate reflection of kids today. Kids aren't as curious and naive, and it kind of makes sense for the new PGG to piggyback off of that.The reliance on meme humor and Internet jokes is, for me, a minus. Although to be fair, the Internet episode was very creative and handled well. The problem really comes down to the PPG's humor not feeling authentic. The original PPG had a humor and wit about it that was really authentically branded to JUST that show. This new PPG's universe is no different than any other Cartoon Network show. I really can't see much difference in the new PPG for instance and Adventure Time or Gravity Falls. The humor really blurs its authenticity into the background and keeps the new PPG from having its own unique style.Lastly, for the bad, the action sequences. I get a sense that the animators and storyboard artists aren't fans of action stories or sequences. The original PPG was, at its heart, an action series. Every punch and kick had force. Sometimes this new PPG succeeds at that, but many times it doesn't. There were quite a few episodes where the villain kind of melted into the background and what should have been a really badass action sequence, was just kind of blah.Now why am I still giving this a 6/10??I don't know if the reviewers giving it a 1/10 are just extremely rageful that it doesn't emulate the original enough or just too disappointed in the lack of a Bellum or original voices. In my opinion the voices are fine! Great, even. They fit the characters perfectly. Sure, it would've been nice to hear the original voice cast, but we can't blame the new cast for picking it up and actually getting the voices down correctly can we?The reason it gets a 6/10 is because there were some episodes that looked frame for frame like they could be taken out of an old season of the original PPG at its peak. Some examples of these episodes are "Power Up Puff" "Arachno Romance" and "Little Octi Lost." These episodes showed the potential of the new show and how it can emulate the original while still being fresh enough for a new audience. "Arachno Romance" with its omage to "Mommy Dearest" was such a good episode in fact, it's a shame that it wasn't thought of in the original.I'm also giving the show a pass because let's face it, the original audience of the PPG are all grown up. The new PPG, it can be said, isn't meant for us but for the new generation of kids who are slightly more phone-obsessed, image-conscious and (though we despise it) spouting Internet meme lines left and right. To them, this new PPG is relatable but to us, it looks almost foreign. A lot of us fans haven't recognized that fact and are tearing it apart because it doesn't mirror our nostalgia enough.Clearly the new PPG staff have realized that the audience is actually in large parts the OLD audience of the original PPG. We can expect in the next season they might cater to the old audience more and that there will be more action-packed, villain- focused episodes that recapture a lot of what makes the old PPG so dear to us. And --- here's the thing. They can do it!! They did it in a couple of episodes of this first season. So for that, I give them a 6/10 and would ask my fellow PPG fans to keep calm, quit raging and 1-star reviewing it (you know as well as I do, that rating is far from accurate) and wait for season 2 where, let's hope, the staff has taken some of our opinions to task and cleaned up this show a bit.
    afijamesy2k The original powerpuff girls was a classic back in the late 90's early 2000's it was funny and exciting and one of the hanna barbera's last big hits, but this remake is just dull, unfunny and totally unacceptable, the voices and performances are so bad it makes me so sad, I saw this remake several months and it was so stupid and it had less of the charm and style of the original that I almost turned it off, boring animation, boring characters, stillborn teleplay and everything else has brought me into the bathroom in what the hell reason, why would they turn another great classic from the past into a piece of crap like this just like the MacGyver remake and that was even worse, although this one is not nearly as bad, but close. this is very dull and disappointing remake I give it a d.