#Powerpuff girls rock opera movie
#Powerpuff girls rock opera series

#Powerpuff girls rock opera movie

Our next movie has ten princesses, and the movie after that will have twenty princesses. We love princesses at Pixar, which is why we make movies about them. He should have said, “Hell yes we make movies about princesses.

If Pixar doesn’t like its own material, why should I? I realize the interviewer probably caught that poor slob by surprise, but what he should have done was boost his product instead of apologize for it. It was pure virtue-signaling: the Pixar guy was not actually saying anything meaningful, but merely reassuring the empty suit that he was one of the tribe. Neither of these two bothered to define what he meant by the word princess, nor to explain why there’s anything wrong with princesses. The Pixar guy laughed nervously and said by way of reassurance that Pixar made movies about princesses, but it certainly didn’t make movies about, y’know, princesses. Somewhere around the same time, I heard an interview on National Public Radio with some guy from Pixar. The NPR talking head, after taking a few hits off his bong to get that signature public radio voice, asked the Pixar dude if he thought it was “problematic” in some way that Pixar made movies about princesses. I’m highly suspicious of that princess thing in particular, as that has apparently become a feminist shibboleth of late, as witness the YouTube shock video (link NSFW) that made the news a year or so back with little girls in princess outfits screaming cuss-words they probably didn’t understand. Just look how much schoolmarmish finger-wagging they managed to pack into those forty-six seconds: masculine bad, hippie good, you can’t say “princess” for some reason … Indeed, the early clip of the new version that appeared on YouTube feels less like a freewheeling retro action-comedy (what the original was) and more like a scolding lecture: Japan doesn’t understand The Powerpuff Girls. If you do not understand that, you do not understand The Powerpuff Girls. The Powerpuff Girls were not unique because they were female, but because they were female and in kindergarten. Superheroines have been around as long as superheroes. Everyone’s talking like it’s a big deal that the show’s protagonists are female, as if it’s unusual for superheroes to have innies instead of outies. Everyone talking about it is all feminist this and feminist that, as if children’s cartoons should be about identity politics instead of explosions and gross-out jokes. Disney actually dared to take a live-action dump on Sleeping Beauty, and more recently made a Star Wars sequel I forget the title, but I think it was something like Ensign Mary Sue Does It Better than Everyone Else in Space, because heaven forbid that the “strong female character” should have any weaknesses or need to grow into her role.Īll the press I’ve seen about the new Powerpuff Girls has been bad press.

There have been a lot of remakes, reboots, and sequels to things from my youth lately, and most of them have taken something fun, entertaining, and beloved, and turned it into a dreary vehicle for faddish political grandstanding.

#Powerpuff girls rock opera series

I absolutely adore The Powerpuff Girls, Craig McCracken’s cartoon series that ran for six seasons on Cartoon Network starting in 1998.īecause I adore the original, I’ve not had the courage to begin watching the new version. Featured image: “ The Powerpuff Girls” by OZartwork