![]() ![]() They realize too late that he intends to release all the simians in the zoo, alter their brains and create his own little Planet of the Apes. Now he's an evil genius with extra gray matter poking domelike out of his cranium. Shunned by the town and forbidden to use their powers, the girls wander off and encounter Mojo Jojo, a monkey who escaped the professor's lab after drinking Chemical X. They get so caught up in a game of tag that they blast off, buckling highways and toppling buildings. When the girls start school, the professor forgets to tell them to keep their powers in check. They can fly loop-the-loops, zap stuff to smithereens with their laser eyes, paint the place in seconds and make a pile of sandwiches even faster - trimmed crusts and all. Three jet-powered kindergarten cuties emerge. ![]() He mixes sugar and spice and everything nice in his lab, but the brew is accidentally laced with Chemical X (ah, the power of the unalloyed female chromosome!). There's no hint of sex in this conception. Professor Utonium, a lonely bachelor saddened by the town's malaise, decides to create good kids to counteract it. is in some serious, serious, serious trouble." A crime wave is engulfing the place. ![]() As the story begins, we see the skyline of Townsville (a blend of Manhattan, Seattle and points between) and hear an announcer intone, "The city of Townsville. The dialogue, like the art direction, often echoes the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" era. It's all hand-drawn (with computer-generated enhancements) in muted pastels that recall the pink-and-black tiled bathrooms, split-level living rooms and trapezoidal furniture of '60s "modern." The girls are circular, their creator/father, Professor Utonium, is an angular line drawing, and the backgrounds are full of textbook shapes. But near the end, this neatly spun yarn frays, lapsing into comic-book violence that seems out of place.ĭirector Craig McCracken and art director Mike Moon conceive the Powerpuff world in plane geometry. Parents will delight in the wit of the story and its unique look. That's the neat concept behind "The Powerpuff Girls," the TV 'toon that's following its Y-chromosomed neighbor "Hey Arnold!" from small screen to large as a feature-length animated film, "The Powerpuff Girls Movie."įor the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inventive and artful, always fast and furious tale, kids will go happily along for the ride, calling out to encourage their favorite supertykes - Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. Well, if girls feel supremely confident before they hit double-digits, think what Athena-like powers they must exude in their sandbox-and-fingerpaint years. Didn't some experts in the 1990s tell us that little girls feel all-powerful until age 11 or so, after which they're so plagued by insecurities about looks, popularity and boys that they stop raising their hands in class? ![]()
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