The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) on Netflix
PG20021h 13mActionAdventureAnimation
Professor Utonium mixes ingredients for a perfect little girl. His chimpanzee Jojo breaks a flask of Chemical X, and he ends up with three superpowered girls: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.6/1011,735 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
In Townsville, Professor Utonium mixes ingredients hoping to make a perfect little girl. His pet chimpanzee Jojo, his laboratory assistant, breaks a flask of Chemical X, and the spill gets into the mixture. Three girls result, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, and the Chemical X gives them superpowers. The professor and the girls become a family. The girls have not learned to control their powers. At school they learn the game of tag and start playing it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
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- Cartoon Network encouraged McCracken to make an edgier film, telling him to aim it at “25-year-old guys”, so the team upped the seriousness and action and downplayed the funny; by the time it was finished, a regime change at the network left the new bosses upset that it was not a poppy, colorful kids movie.
- McCracken wanted the animated band Gorillaz to record the film's closing song, since the plot involves evil monkeys attacking Townsville, and Gorillaz creators Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn were interested, but scheduling conflicts kept it from happening.
- Making the film was when Cartoon Network first had the idea of producing animation for older audiences, with Samurai Jack part of the same thinking; the makers reckoned they were the guinea pigs for what would later evolve into Adult Swim.
