To be completely honest I still don't know why I used to praise a cartoon like "The Powerpuff Girls" when I was a kid. I mean sure I grew up with the cartoons from Cartoon Network being my childhood favorite channel that I used to watch religiously no matter what. But returning with the Powerpuff Girls I can see that this show hasn't aged well, in fact I don't think this show really cared that much for itself either. In my opinion I didn't like the way how the famous animator Craig McCracken made this show so repetitive, I mean looking at it again I can honestly say that this show was pretty much formulaic at best.
I am a bit surprised to see how the main characters were always this petulant, yes I know what you're thinking (It's just a cartoon dude) but I have to care about the show's character development. And frankly the girls personality didn't only remain unchanged but one thing that really annoyed me about this show was that how the girls would never learn their mistakes but especially doing one of the most irritating things when they were committing contradictions. And that bugs me a lot, because it's like telling to the children it's OK to steal candy without nobody ever noticing them.
I know I'm being nit-picky here but another flaw I simply didn't like the show was it's villains. Not necessarily their attitudes, but it makes me wonder how they can simply escape from the jails that easily every time PPG kicked their butts. It gets repeated all over again and you get the picture. Plus after so many episodes why couldn't at least the PPG destroyed Mojo Jojo's volcano lab? After all "they" were the ones who build it if you've seen the movie before so why not destroy his lab and end his world domination plans? It leaves with so many plot holes and missed opportunities.
Although there were some episodes were the show would actually get more serious tones than they usually do but ultimately most of them would still come to a very cheesy and predictable resolutions (well except for one episode with the one who had Christine Cavanaugh (R.I.P.) as guest voice acting and IMO I think that was one of the rare occasions the show finally could have taken a step further to become (just slightly) more mature but likewise it completely ignored it and forgot the whole thing entirely.)
Plus even though a certain episode wouldn't contain anything about heroism or action those episodes would still be pretty much boring, forgettable and pathetic at best and still having the same danged ending despite not doing anything for their people and the city.
But not only that (albeit unrelated), the other kinds of things that also annoys me with PPG is how so many other cartoons had tried to be like this show. Like for example "My Life as a Teenage Robot" (actually I still believe that cartoon took many inspirations and tributes to this show), while in my opinion not as bad as this show but ultimately failed to reach it's potential to become something even better than what it eventually became more dumber than serious just for the sake of it's comedy just like PPG.
On the other hand, the animation wasn't that bad. Not only was it colorful but the movements were at least well drawn and executed, but even though the shows style pretty much felt derived from Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab. Yes I know they used to work together back then but I can't help it but feel like Genndy's style has been used for so many times in a bad way (if you know what I mean.)
With all that being said, PPG is a disappointing show and taking a look at it again didn't help me change my mind. It should have been better when it had the chance, but ultimately ignored those possibilities and kept being just another cartoon with these annoying clichés that had inspired many other cartoonists for their works. Much of the same things can be said to McCrackens second show "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" albeit much better than his previous work it managed to become generally bad as well thanks to these forsaken clichés like PPG had.
Now I'm not so sure what to think of this new upcoming reboot of this show, but I honestly don't think it's going to go well not because of the lack of the real voice actresses but only for the sake of the channel itself. Not a good glimpse I'm afraid.
1/10
I am a bit surprised to see how the main characters were always this petulant, yes I know what you're thinking (It's just a cartoon dude) but I have to care about the show's character development. And frankly the girls personality didn't only remain unchanged but one thing that really annoyed me about this show was that how the girls would never learn their mistakes but especially doing one of the most irritating things when they were committing contradictions. And that bugs me a lot, because it's like telling to the children it's OK to steal candy without nobody ever noticing them.
I know I'm being nit-picky here but another flaw I simply didn't like the show was it's villains. Not necessarily their attitudes, but it makes me wonder how they can simply escape from the jails that easily every time PPG kicked their butts. It gets repeated all over again and you get the picture. Plus after so many episodes why couldn't at least the PPG destroyed Mojo Jojo's volcano lab? After all "they" were the ones who build it if you've seen the movie before so why not destroy his lab and end his world domination plans? It leaves with so many plot holes and missed opportunities.
Although there were some episodes were the show would actually get more serious tones than they usually do but ultimately most of them would still come to a very cheesy and predictable resolutions (well except for one episode with the one who had Christine Cavanaugh (R.I.P.) as guest voice acting and IMO I think that was one of the rare occasions the show finally could have taken a step further to become (just slightly) more mature but likewise it completely ignored it and forgot the whole thing entirely.)
Plus even though a certain episode wouldn't contain anything about heroism or action those episodes would still be pretty much boring, forgettable and pathetic at best and still having the same danged ending despite not doing anything for their people and the city.
But not only that (albeit unrelated), the other kinds of things that also annoys me with PPG is how so many other cartoons had tried to be like this show. Like for example "My Life as a Teenage Robot" (actually I still believe that cartoon took many inspirations and tributes to this show), while in my opinion not as bad as this show but ultimately failed to reach it's potential to become something even better than what it eventually became more dumber than serious just for the sake of it's comedy just like PPG.
On the other hand, the animation wasn't that bad. Not only was it colorful but the movements were at least well drawn and executed, but even though the shows style pretty much felt derived from Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab. Yes I know they used to work together back then but I can't help it but feel like Genndy's style has been used for so many times in a bad way (if you know what I mean.)
With all that being said, PPG is a disappointing show and taking a look at it again didn't help me change my mind. It should have been better when it had the chance, but ultimately ignored those possibilities and kept being just another cartoon with these annoying clichés that had inspired many other cartoonists for their works. Much of the same things can be said to McCrackens second show "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" albeit much better than his previous work it managed to become generally bad as well thanks to these forsaken clichés like PPG had.
Now I'm not so sure what to think of this new upcoming reboot of this show, but I honestly don't think it's going to go well not because of the lack of the real voice actresses but only for the sake of the channel itself. Not a good glimpse I'm afraid.
1/10