Powerpuff Girls: The Movie

July 9, 2002

I am not ashamed. I watched the Powerpuff Girls movie. While it’s wrapped in all the cute trappings, at its core, PPG is a superhero story. Given the chance to expand its scope, Craig McCracken cuts it loose and brings some really huge epic action to the screen.

It gets slow in parts, but when they decide to blow stuff up, Powerpuff Girls has more collateral damage than any other movie I’ve seen this year. The action is just tremendous, and it’s more fun than a barrel of superpowered monkeys with oversized brains that burst out of their skull.

A final note on the gender politics of Powerpuff: I think it’s great when girls can learn that the only solution to anything is to be the living snot out of it.

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