My Review of The Powerpuff Girls · 8:01pm Nov 22nd, 2021
My TV Show Rating Score:
5/5: It is an awesome show!
4/5: It’s a good show with minor flaws
3/5: It’s overall okay/guilty pleasure
2/5: It’s bad but not awful
1/5: Look, up in the sky! It’s super bad!
0/5: MY EYEEEESSS!!!
Greetings and salutations to everyone! This is Mr. J with another show review for today! For this afternoon, I will be reviewing one of the most beloved cartoons of all time and one of the most popular shows on Cartoon Network: The Powerpuff Girls. Folks, this is one of my beloved childhood shows of all time and one of the few shows that I always enjoyed watching while growing up. Craig McCracken is the splendid creator of this show and has made this such a beautiful masterpiece thanks to the tremendous contributions he provided to all of this. Also, in case you are wondering, I am talking about the original and only Powerpuff Girls. I'm afraid that shit-fest of a reboot doesn't exist to me, so let us not talk about whatever the hell that is.
Anyway, this show in particular is about three powerful girls who are respectively made of sugar, spice, and everything nice accidentally combined with Chemical X. Thanks to the creative efforts of Professor Utonium, the powerpuff girls were born who vow to protect the city of Townsville from evil super-villains. They are Blossom, the self-proclaimed leader, Bubbles, the adorable one, and Buttercup, the feisty tomboy. Each of them have distinct personalities to set them apart and have all unique flaws and strengths to make them stand out as characters.
It is really hard to choose which one is my favorite because all three girls are well-written, sweet, and amazing to watch. My guess would be Bubbles for two reasons: 1). She is so cute and sweet that it gives me cuteness overload. A worthy adversary that not even Batman can beat. And 2.) She was voiced by Tara Strong. What more can I say about that?
However, this show is not only good because of its heroes but also because of its various antagonists in my humble opinion. The main villain is Mojo Jojo, who is of course my favorite antagonist in this show. He is both evil, tragic, sadistic, manipulative, and sometimes hilarious. Granted, he is your usual Saturday morning cartoon villain, but he is very entertaining and nowhere as try-hard, cringey, and ultimately stupid as some villains I know. I miss the days when bad guys were purely evil and villains being irredeemable antagonists just because. Why can't we have that anymore? Of course, I also liked HIM, The Gangreen Gang, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and dozens of other villains.
Props to Tom Kenny, EG Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Cathy Cavadini, Tom Kane, Jennifer Hale, and many others for their splendid performances as the iconic characters we all know and love. Especially to Tom Kane as he voiced Professor Utonium, HIM, and the Talking Dog. It sucks that he is retired due to the stroke he got last year. Still, I wish him and his family all the best.
Overall, this show is a wonderfully made piece of art that contains not just well-animated fight scenes and choreography but also a decent story and great character development. Wherefore, this gets a 5/5: powerpuff amazing!
Peace!
Cool review!
I grew up watching this show before it was moved to Boomerang. And the anime adaptation was... unique. Not a big fan of the anime because of how much was altered. I mean, in the anime, the girls aren't sisters, and they weren't created by the Professor, they were classmates that got exposed to something and became the Powerpuff Girls and they had signature weapons. The villains were exposed to the same thing that the girls were, a random zoo monkey became Mojo Jojo, stuff like that was how most of the villains became villains
Love this show!