(*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*)
For my first comment, I'm going to say something about the theme; For a Disney cartoon, it's surprisingly cool. In fact, I'd almost rank it near the same level as "Turn Down the Sun," from IS IT FALL YET? Unfortunately, like "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold, it wasn't originally written as a theme song. Some have compared it to the opening cheer from BRING IT ON(2000), although nobody's uniform falls off out of nowhere in this one. You can even hear the swishing of the pom-poms and bouncing around on the gymnasium floorboards through the music, which makes it obvious they used multiple soundtracks here. After the cheer-session, we find Ron has signed both himself and Kim up for Latin class, only to find the Latin he signed them up for was Latin the language, rather than Latin American culture. Which raises the question, Just how dead is Latin as a language if it's still being offered as a course in our schools? Anyway while making his speech about how great the new school season is going to be, he suddenly finds his family is moving out of town...WAY out of town! Specifically, NORWAY! Soon we find that Ron was NOT exaggerating when he said moving out would mean the end of life on earth as we know it, as Kim & Ron's efforts to stop freaky super-villains on three different continents don't work so well. We also find that the Latin class Ron got Kim into were useful after all. Since our little Kimmie-cub is the only thing standing in the way of world domination for Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, Duff Killigan or any villains not appearing in this movie, Drakken decides to take the three other mentioned villains and to travel through time to thwart Kim's evolution into the confident teen heroine we know her to be, using primate-obsessive Lord Monkey Fist's knowledge about an ancient time-traveling relic called the "Tempus Simia." Once she figures this out, a much more articulate and not-so-naked descendant of Rufus(voiced by Michael Dorn) visits her from the future and drafts her to help them with the fight against "the Supreme One," by going back in time to stop them. I like how he goes into a grandiose speech about the importance of a mission, and then says "I'm making cookies." Like the original series it's humor relies on slapping standard hero and villain clichés right in the face. Shego has a sarcastic streak rivaling Daria Morgendorffer, even if she's not as smart as or far more evil than Daria. As expected with any movie (or TV-Movie for that matter) based on an existing cartoon since the 1990's, this cartoon relies on something extra to distinguish itself from the regular series -- the use of CGI-Animation, however the use of these techniques is far more subtle than in THE FAIRLY ODD-PARENTS: ABRA-CATASTROPHE(2003)(TV), from earlier that year. Compare this to 1966's THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE, which only had musical interludes and unique camera angles to distinguish itself from that series. The statues of "The Supreme One" look like they were done with pencil, but my guess is that they were airbrushed. The fight at Shego's lair seems a lot like something out of STAR WARS, and others appear ripped-off of SAMURAI JACK, but that's not much of a reason to complain. I did notice that one of the people who gave Kim a ride was an Australian Bushman who drove a HUMVEE with left-hand drive(Another goof I tried and failed to submit to IMDb). Despite these anomalies, it's still great partially because it shows the origins of Kim's world-saving activities, and what would happen if she were to fail. Overall, it's not as good as the would-be series-ending "So the Drama," but still good.
For my first comment, I'm going to say something about the theme; For a Disney cartoon, it's surprisingly cool. In fact, I'd almost rank it near the same level as "Turn Down the Sun," from IS IT FALL YET? Unfortunately, like "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold, it wasn't originally written as a theme song. Some have compared it to the opening cheer from BRING IT ON(2000), although nobody's uniform falls off out of nowhere in this one. You can even hear the swishing of the pom-poms and bouncing around on the gymnasium floorboards through the music, which makes it obvious they used multiple soundtracks here. After the cheer-session, we find Ron has signed both himself and Kim up for Latin class, only to find the Latin he signed them up for was Latin the language, rather than Latin American culture. Which raises the question, Just how dead is Latin as a language if it's still being offered as a course in our schools? Anyway while making his speech about how great the new school season is going to be, he suddenly finds his family is moving out of town...WAY out of town! Specifically, NORWAY! Soon we find that Ron was NOT exaggerating when he said moving out would mean the end of life on earth as we know it, as Kim & Ron's efforts to stop freaky super-villains on three different continents don't work so well. We also find that the Latin class Ron got Kim into were useful after all. Since our little Kimmie-cub is the only thing standing in the way of world domination for Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, Duff Killigan or any villains not appearing in this movie, Drakken decides to take the three other mentioned villains and to travel through time to thwart Kim's evolution into the confident teen heroine we know her to be, using primate-obsessive Lord Monkey Fist's knowledge about an ancient time-traveling relic called the "Tempus Simia." Once she figures this out, a much more articulate and not-so-naked descendant of Rufus(voiced by Michael Dorn) visits her from the future and drafts her to help them with the fight against "the Supreme One," by going back in time to stop them. I like how he goes into a grandiose speech about the importance of a mission, and then says "I'm making cookies." Like the original series it's humor relies on slapping standard hero and villain clichés right in the face. Shego has a sarcastic streak rivaling Daria Morgendorffer, even if she's not as smart as or far more evil than Daria. As expected with any movie (or TV-Movie for that matter) based on an existing cartoon since the 1990's, this cartoon relies on something extra to distinguish itself from the regular series -- the use of CGI-Animation, however the use of these techniques is far more subtle than in THE FAIRLY ODD-PARENTS: ABRA-CATASTROPHE(2003)(TV), from earlier that year. Compare this to 1966's THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE, which only had musical interludes and unique camera angles to distinguish itself from that series. The statues of "The Supreme One" look like they were done with pencil, but my guess is that they were airbrushed. The fight at Shego's lair seems a lot like something out of STAR WARS, and others appear ripped-off of SAMURAI JACK, but that's not much of a reason to complain. I did notice that one of the people who gave Kim a ride was an Australian Bushman who drove a HUMVEE with left-hand drive(Another goof I tried and failed to submit to IMDb). Despite these anomalies, it's still great partially because it shows the origins of Kim's world-saving activities, and what would happen if she were to fail. Overall, it's not as good as the would-be series-ending "So the Drama," but still good.