The Powerpuff Girls Movie

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Movie
German title The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Original title The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Craig McCracken
script Charlie Bean ,
Lauren Faust ,
Craig McCracken,
Paul Rudish ,
Don Shank
production Donna Castricone
music James L. Venable
camera Genndy Tartakovsky ,
Mike Moon
cut Rob Desales
synchronization

The Powerpuff Girls Movie is an American animated film produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures , based on the cartoon series Powerpuff Girls . The film is a prequel to the series. The film tells how the girls became superheroes and how Mojo Jojo became their archenemy.

action

Townsville is a city where criminals can get away with whatever they want. There is nothing the citizens can do about it. But the scientist Professor Utonium has an idea to make the city a better place. One night he tries to create the "perfect little girl" with a mixture of sugar, pepper and other ingredients.

While working on them, his pet, the chimpanzee Jojo , spills a strange substance called Chemical X into the mixture and on himself. The professor finishes creating the three girls he calls Blossom , Bubbles and Buttercup .

As a result of the involuntary addition of Chemical X to the mixture, the three girls have superpowers. Although they go different ways, the girls and the professor are like family. When the girls first started school, things got out of hand. The girls find that when they play catch , their game becomes violent. A large part of the city is badly damaged. That night the professor advises the girls to hide their powers from the public, he explains to them that it is difficult for people to understand that they are special.

The next day the professor is arrested for creating the girls. The girls themselves are treated like outcasts by the residents because of the serious damage they have caused in the city. That evening the girls try to get home on foot, but get lost in an alley. There they come across Jojo, whose brain has been mutated by the chemical X and who now lives on the street as a homeless person. They all tell each other how they are hated for their powers. Then Jojo tells them that by working together as a Team they could make Townsville a better place. In truth, he plans to take control of the city with the help of mutated monkeys.

He convinces the three girls to build a laboratory for him on a volcano . Jojo supposedly takes them to the zoo as a reward. But at the same time he is putting his evil plan into action there. At the zoo, he provides the monkeys with transponders so that they can be transported to his laboratory. During the night Jojo brings her to the laboratory and lets the primates mutate.

The professor is released from prison that same night. The next day the girls want to show the professor the city that Jojo promised to make a better place. However, the mutated primates created by Jojo cause nothing more than chaos in the city. Jojo is now renaming itself to Mojo Jojo. When Jojo explains that the three girls helped him with his plan, everyone, including the professor, turns away from the girls. The girls flee into space out of fear. When Mojo Jojo announces his plan to rise to the rank of king, he runs into difficulties because the mutated primates he created are also pursuing this plan.

In space, the girls hear Mojo Jojo and his mutated primates bullying the city's residents. They are therefore returning to earth. Realizing that they can use their powers to fight evil, they begin the battle against Mojo Jojo and his army of primates. They attack Mojo Jojo who caught the professor. But suddenly Mojo Jojo injects a large amount of chemical X and grows into a huge monster. A fight begins between the girls and Mojo Jojo. Eventually the girls throw Mojo Jojo off a skyscraper after declining his offer to rule Townsville with him. Mojo lands directly on an antidote to Chemical X the Professor made and shrinks back to its normal size.

The girls now also decide to take the antidote so that they lose their superpowers and are accepted as normal girls. But the citizens of Townsville stop them, apologize to the girls, and praise them for saving the city. Since the girls have used their powers to protect the city from the bad guys, the mayor asks them to become the city's new defenders. This turns the girls into the Powerpuff Girls.

synchronization

role Original speaker German synchronization
Blossom Cathy Cavadini Ghadah Al-Akel
Bubbles Tara Strong Cathlen Gawlich
Buttercup Elizabeth Daily Ilona Brokowski
Professor Utonium Tom Kane Norbert Langer
Mojo yo-yo Roger L. Jackson Michael Pan
teller Tom Kenny Detlef Bierstedt
The mayor Tom Kenny Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
Miss Bellum Jennifer Martin Arianne Borbach

reception

Financial success

The Powerpuff Girls Movie was in the first week after theatrical release 3.5 million US dollars import. Overall, with an estimated production cost of $ 11 million, around $ 16 million in North America was raised.

Reviews

The Powerpuff Girls Movie received mostly positive reviews . On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has a rating of 63%. It says there that the film looks like a longer episode of the series, but is fun. The film received a Metascore of 65 on Metacritic .

However, the portrayal of violence in the film was controversial. Ebert & Roeper gave the film two thumbs down in the series At the Movies because the film was too violent.

"The film, which is aimed at overstimulation, does not allow content-related aspects to apply and produces brightly colored, ultra-fast images that condense into a nerve-racking spectacle and refuse any kind of reflection."

- Lexicon of international film

"Fast-paced fun with brightly colored pictures."

- Cinema

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the film on imdb.com , accessed on August 1, 2016
  2. ↑ The Powerpuff Girls Movie at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed August 1, 2016
  3. ^ The Powerpuff Girls Movie at Metacritic , accessed August 1, 2016
  4. ↑ Paula Nechak: Violence overpowers Powerpuff Girls on www.seatlepi.com from July 2, 2002, accessed on August 1, 2016
  5. ^ The Powerpuff Girls Movie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ The Powerpuff Girls Movie on cinema.de, accessed on August 1, 2016