My Nicer Review Of "The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed"

(So... I was kinda grouchy last time. So I'm making another review.

Why am I keeping the other one, you ask? For laughs at myself.)

SPOILERS AHEAD

So, " The Powerpuff Girls" is apparently coming back. I'm not sure if this will be a series or not (if anyone has information on that, please tell me; it will be appreciated), but Cartoon network quite recently aired the special "The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed".

Now, I knew about this new version of PPG last summer, from the YouTube channel "LewToons". LewToons released a video showing artwork of what the new style was going to look like.

I, along with others, did not particularly like these designs. To me, they looked a bit too choppy and cardboard-cut-out-ish, unlike the relatively round designs of the original show. So, I kept waiting until the new show aired.

To say the least, I wasn't pleased with what I saw. I do have some reasons for this. Number one:

I didn't enjoy the animation.

It looks much too choppy for my liking, and (as I mentioned earlier), the rough lines are an issue. I don't feel it works for a show like the Powerpuff Girls, which, in the original series, was so smooth that it looked like a little girls show, but if you really thoroughly watched it, you'd know it's much more than that. This... I actually don't know how to describe it.

Also, this new version has almost no lining up with the original show's story-lines. For example, how the Professor became interested in science.

Apparently, in the new, the Professor use to love to dance. But when he entered a dance-off on "Soul Hayride" (please correct me if I'm wrong on the name), which is like a dancing game-show, and was made fun of, he gave up. This is where it gets strange. He meets a group of other famous scientific men who said they also danced on "Soul Hayride" and quit. So, the Professor took up science.

That is not at all what happened in the original. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the original, the Professor came to know science from school where he usually made trouble.

Another point is the personality of the Girls themselves in the new version. In this version, the girls are shown as manipulative.

For example, at one point in "Dance Pantsed", the girls and Professor are at a store, and the girls see a videogame, 'Dance Pants'. When the Prof. is unsure if he'll buy it for them, Blossom signals to the other girls and they throw a super-tantrum, shaking the whole store. The Prof. gives in and buys the game. This is not the way the Powerpuff Girls have acted in the original. It is also a bad example for young children who watch this (and I know children will watch this).

Probably my last point is not a comparison of the new and original, but a problem with the plot of the new episode itself.

The main plot is that Mojo Jojo controls the girls into being robots that do his bidding by creating an evil videogame. He makes the girls abduct a mathematical genius, an opera singer, and a badger, all famous figures. Now, this could work fine if his plan was to get money off of the victims.

Unfortunately, that is not his plan at all. His real plot is to create a baseball team with the victims, become famous, and with that fame, take over Townsville.

Pardon me, but, what the heck? Yes, fame earns you much power in today's society, but... taking over a whole large city? Also, I'm not sure how a math genius, an opera singer, and a badger could make a successful baseball team. At all.

In conclusion, I definitely will not be watching any more of this new Cartoon Network show. It irks me similarly to Teen Titans GO!, another CN show which I pretty much loathe, except for one small thing.

I can actually stand watching a few of those episodes. Very few, but a few.

Comments

[theairsoftbrony]

i use to actually watch that show and the original animation is much better in my opinion