The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed

It's not that bad guys! Seriously So many people are just hatting on it just for the art alone, of course the original animation style would be much more preferred but the art here is not bad at all. I guess Cartoon Network just liked the Style and wanted to work with that artist is some way or another and this special is what they figured was best. The special itself isn't anything amazing but it is not at all worth all the hate. It's just like an actual episode of the show. It has some great moments but overall nothing will blow you away but It's worth checking out. It literally like an episode script was just sitting around and it was the the PPG 15th anniversary so along with an App game this special was made. My only real complaint is that maybe they could have modernized the script a little bit more and some more Villain cameo's.

Boy it has been half a decade, since we saw POWERPUFF GIRLS RULE in 2008. I saw some teaser art for this special. I worried about that it will be stereotypically girly like JEM, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, RAINBOW-BRITE, and the first three generations of MY LITTLE PONY, but I was wrong. Before I talk about my thoughts about it, let me supply you with a little history lesson.

From 1929 to 1934, America was suffering through The Great Depression. There were superheroes like Superman, Flash Gordon, Shazam, Captain Marvel and Buck Rogers who were used to boost morale and raise spirits. Then America was struck by terrorism on September 11th, 2001. With that there were shows like POWERPUFF GIRLS, DEXTER'S LABORATORY, JOHNNY BRAVO, COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG, and FAIRLY ODDPARENTS. They were used to continue the tradition on boosting morale and raising spirits through the power of laughter and pop-culture references. Over the next ten years, political correctness had affected the government, and then the media and technology. Negativity had infected society and they were statement films and shows like IDIOCRACY, THE JERSEY SHORE, DAN VS. and GOD BLESS America. These had negative role-models carried bad messages to prove that life stinks! This drove the world mad. Now with a troubled times, there were a few shows that are struggling to keep the tradition like T.U.F.F. PUPPY and WANDER OVER YONDER. With love and respect for the past and pop-culture references, it is time for the girls to make a comeback.

With that history lesson aside, what I wrote was true. I did watch this show yesterday and I had a laugh out of it. It is good to hear the old voices and familiar music, but the design looked different. It doesn't look like an episode of the show, but it feels like an episode from the show. I heard that Butch Hartman was involved, but he wasn't. When I read that Craig McCracken, the show's original creator, was not involved, then how come I read the text "created by Craig McCracken" under the show's title? It's a mystery. In a world dominated by cartoons that are negative, contain character designs, that are complete eyesore, irritating voices that makes you want to press the mute button and messed up story-lines. Then this special is a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend it. If you enjoy this special and the original series, then you will enjoy IDW's comic book re-boot. It is faithful to the campy cartoon series. Rated TV-Y7 for comedic and fantasy violence and peril. This has been another "Mathew Praises".

The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed is a special bringing back the iconic superheroines before CN thought of the 2016 reboot that is infamous for being so bad, and yet, this one is bad as well.

In this special, after stopping the evil Mojo Jojo after he kidnaps popular people, the girls celebrate by getting a video game, Dance Pants Revolution. Seeing Bubbles enjoy it, Mojo decides to make another game like it, one that turns the girls into robots under the evil monkey's control, and the professor must save them, when it means revisiting his dancing days, which after being rejected by a dance show, would lead to him going to become a scientist.

Yeah, I can see why this special is hated by the majority of the PPG fan base. For this special, they changed the animation style, as instead of the style used in the 1998 cartoon (or even the flash animation from the movie and the final seasons), they decided to go the CGI treatment, and oh boy, it causes a lot of changes, as the girls look less like the ones we knew from 1998 and more like the Powerpuffs from those commercials they used to do (the ones where they changed the girls' look for some cosmetic line), making them look less like the Powerpuff Girls and more like some girls who got the powers and costumes of the girls. Also, the special does not follow continuity of the series it is based on, as it changes the professor's origin to how be became a man of science (which contradicts an episode of the series where he was a kid in Townsville when the girls go back in time to save him from Mojo Jojo, even going as far as to add Steven Hawking, Issaac Newton, and Slim Jim Wellbody, a parody of Slim Goodbody from those old PBS shows). Also, the special features Ringo Starr, which casts him as the voice of a mathematician who Mojo targets for kidnapping for a cause that, which I won't spoil, is a horrible plot for a villain (I mean, come on, this is Mojo Jojo we're talking about, a great genius who gained his criminal intellect at the same time the girls were created, and here, he wastes it on that?)

However, this special does has some pluses, like getting the original voice cast (including the original VAs for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, which would not be done come 2016's reboot) and it at least keeps the spirit of the 1998 series, however, not even that is enough to cover the flaws of this special.

I really loved the Powerpuff girls, and i love all of the episodes, even the movie, the key to the city episode, and now.. this episode. Cartoon Network really messed up the whole production of this special because of Craig McCracken was not involved with this one. The continuity is especially, without a doubt, nowhere close to the original episodes, because Craig Mccracken throws in a curve-ball to change the arts. At least the special gives off a few good ideas, and a handful of exciting moments, but unfortunately, it is not enough for the girls and their professor to recover from this malicious loss in control. On the other hand, the graphics look so showgirls-esque, and only a hyper-active Fanny can squeeze any enjoyment out of Cartoon Network's latest adventure with the girls. Overall, i love the Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, and Elizabeth Daily, and the original voice actor's reprisals of their respected roles. Concluding my review, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were not too cute for me. Stick to the original episodes, even the post-movie episodes.

Graphics: 1.5/10. Canon and Continuity: 0/10. Voice Acting: 10/10. Quality: 0/10. Overall: F-/

The only positive thing I have to say about this is that it was nice to see some effort into bringing the Powerpuff Girls back to television, but it was a poor attempt. This special had inaccuracies in relation to the history that was mapped out in the original series. The humor is pathetic and nothing like the witty jokes I remember. Regarding the artistic style, it gives off an attitude that is unlike the original series and all that it stood for. It beautifies the girls and makes them out to be much older than they are, which is appalling, and they are written completely out of character. Rather than pay homage to the classic series we all know and love, this title goes for cheap comedy that is poorly executed. It's just white noise with all the other sub- par cartoons on television.