Film Reviews

Powerpuff Girls

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• Director: Craig McCracken
• Starring: Catherine Cavadini
• Details: US / 73 minutes / (G).

Although the series was created in the mid-nineties to capitalise on the notion of girl power that was sweeping the world (well, the charts anyway), The Powerpuff Girls movie recounts the earliest days of the superhuman girls and traces their invention by the bumbling Professor Utonium. Despite the fact that he was originally intent on making a normal little girl (which is rather disturbing in itself), Professor Utonium accidentally happened across a formula which created the superhuman, flying triplets, Blossom (Cavadini), Bubbles (Strong) and Buttercup (Daily). A troublesome bunch of madams, after they make a sizeable error in judgement and destroy their hometown, the girls have to do battle with their nemesis Mojo and his strain of virulent monkeys in order to make things right. And then it starts to get really weird.
A deeply strange, hyperactive movie, The Powerpuff Girls is one of those films which it is entirely likely that only children of a certain age will manage to connect with. Utterly relentless, the film nips along with all the energy of a four-year-old on a steady diet of coffee. And, like a lively kid, it's fun for a while but after 70 odd minutes of swirling images and aural mayhem, you just want it to sit down and be quiet for a while.

Review by Garreth Murphy